More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday. All these events will take place under a single banner: No Kings.
Formally launched in June to fight back against Trump administration policies, the No Kings movement has grown with astonishing speed – its second and most recent mass protest in October drew an estimated 7 million participants. Organizers expect Saturday’s events to be the biggest protest in American history.
But the movement is also leaderless, broad in cause and hasn’t advanced any policy demands. Some social movements experts recognize No Kings’ momentum but question if it needs clearer goals.
“There’s not any one way to get people into a movement. You want to have as many doors open as possible because you have to reach people wherever they are,” said Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. “The bigger challenge is, once they’re there, how do you keep them there, and then how do you channel that engagement in collective ways?”
But organizers say they are aware of such critiques and that these choices are all by design.
“The name No Kings is, in and of itself, a demand. It is a direct repudiation of this administration, of this regime, of its unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and frankly profane actions,” said Hunter Dunn, an organizer with the 50501 movement, one of the groups behind No Kings. “It’s a declaration of intent that we are going to return power back to the people.”
I’m confused. Are you asking me to say somebody’s name?
Ya. You listed off a bunch of Republicans, but then just clearly described our lord and savior, Supreme Leader Democrat.
Is it not clear from what I wrote that I’m:
*not American *not a liberal *not a Democrat
The only reason the Republicans ever win is because their only opposition is the Democrats and vice versa. Both parties have worked to produce the plutocracy that has not only given the world Trump but also the coups in Iran, Chile etc, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea. Just like in my country, Americans need to go for something other than the status quo, because the status quo is what got us here. To be clear, what I’m advocating is an end to imperialism and capitalism, first in the imperial core and then the rest of the world will be permitted to follow, not via Leninism but via a democratic process.
Yeah, I agree with you on everything. My only point is that I constantly hear people like Tucker Carlson and MTG and people like them, will blatantly call out whatever Trump is doing, without ever mentioning his name. Because they know Trump has a massive cult like rabid following that will eat you, and your family alive and shit you out in a pool of rotten blood if you go against him. And you did the same thing about Democrats. Named like 4 Republicans that are obviously a problem, but only referenced the Democrat that is also a problem, without mentioning his name…because you know he has a cult like following. Even in left leaning, communist circles like lemmy.