{"id":150950,"date":"2026-03-28T14:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:52:18","slug":"crowd-gathers-in-downtown-pittsburgh-part-of-nationwide-no-kings-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150950\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd gathers in Downtown Pittsburgh, part of nationwide &#8216;No Kings&#8217; rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters are expected to gather along Grant Street in front of Pittsburgh\u2019s City-County building Downtown for a third round of the nationwide No Kings protests Saturday. The growing series of rallies is aimed at opposing President Donald Trump and his administration\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The protest is part of a nationwide day of action with more than 3,000 events planned across America. The demonstrations are supported by a coalition of organizations that include the American Civil Liberties Union, civil rights and social justice organizations, labor unions, local activist groups and community organizers. Organizers oppose many of the Trump administration\u2019s signature policy directives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump wants to rule over us as a tyrant,\u201d the official No Kings website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokings.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reads<\/a>. \u201cBut this is America, and power belongs to the people, not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least two other No Kings rallies were planned in Pittsburgh Saturday \u2014 in the North Side and Shadyside \u2014 and a dozen more are slated across Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s event organizers specifically denounced ongoing immigration raids in American towns as well as the war with Iran and economic pressures felt by working class citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump is sending masked agents into our streets, terrorizing our communities. They are targeting immigrant families, profiling, arresting, and detaining people without warrants,\u201d Indivisible Pittsburgh, one of the organizations behind the event, said in a release. \u201cWhat began \u2026 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people showed up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesa.fm\/politics-government\/2025-10-18\/pittsburgh-no-kings\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a similar rally in Pittsburgh<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters are expected to gather along Grant Street in front of Pittsburgh\u2019s City-County building Downtown for a third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-150950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}