Another high-profile celebrity has joined the list of attendees for the No Kings rally this weekend in St. Paul.
Event organizers have confirmed that Bruce Springsteen will sing “Streets of Minneapolis,” a song he wrote and released back in January about the ICE surge in Minnesota, at Saturday’s rally.
The rally at the State Capitol, which is the national flagship No Kings event this year, is three days before Springsteen’s new tour kicks off at Target Center.
He joins a growing list of high-profile attendees expected at the St. Paul rally, one of hundreds planned across the U.S. on Saturday in protest of actions by President Donald Trump and his administration.
Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers, actress Jane Fonda, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, singer Joan Baez, and multiple local and state officials — including Attorney General Keith Ellison and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan — are also expected to be at the No Kings rally at the State Capitol. Three separate marches in St. Paul are scheduled to start at noon and end at the Capitol, where a 2 p.m. program is scheduled.
This is the third No Kings protest, and officials say they expected it to be the largest yet. More than 5 million people were estimated to have participated in nationwide No Kings rallies in June, and thousands turned out in Minnesota for another one in October.
Organizers say, “When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option. We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence. America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear. It belongs to us, the people.”