{"id":11027,"date":"2025-06-11T05:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11027"},"modified":"2025-06-11T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:56:03","slug":"progressives-holding-no-kings-day-protests-across-the-us-to-counter-trump-and-military-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11027","title":{"rendered":"Progressives holding ‘No Kings Day’ protests across the US to counter Trump and military parade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Progressive groups say they’ll hold more than 1,500 \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d events across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counter the military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the U.S. Army\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n

The original plan from major progressive organizing group Indivisible and others to counter the military parade with protests was first announced in early May. But Indivisible Co-Executive Director Ezra Levin told MSNBC<\/a> on Monday night that President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s response to protests against Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles<\/a> has brought many more people to the No Kings website, and that the group has scheduled more trainings this week in response to the \u201coverwhelming interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its May news release announcing the events, Indivisible said that the parade is meant to be a “made-for-TV display of dominance for [Trump’s] birthday” and that the president is using the military’s birthday to celebrate his own, which also falls on June 14.<\/p>\n

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Demonstrators rally against President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk during a ‘Hands Off!’ protest, in Asheville, North Carolina, April 5, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Last month, when asked about reports of the military parade by NBC News, Trump said the parade plans were \u201cnot for my birthday\u201d but are for Flag Day and to celebrate the military. The Pentagon and Army have said they are planning their own birthday celebration and not planning to sing \u201chappy birthday\u201d to the president.<\/p>\n

Indivisible has also called out what it says is overreach by the White House against courts and slammed deportations and administration actions it said have hurt civil rights and decimated services people need.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis country doesn\u2019t belong to a king — and we\u2019re not letting him throw himself a parade funded by tens of millions of our taxpayer dollars while stealing from us and stripping away our rights, our freedoms, and the programs our families rely on,\u201d Indivisible said in a statement last month. \u201cOn June 14th, we\u2019re coming together to send one clear message: No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a press release on Friday, Indivisible said in addition to locations across the country, there are events planned in Europe and South America.<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump and his regime are cracking down on media, on business, on higher education, and on civil society more broadly — anyone who opposes them,” Indivisible co-executive director Leah Greenberg said in a statement Friday. “That is the context in which Donald Trump rolled out his plans for his birthday parade … He wants people to think that his power is inevitable, that its consolidation is a given. What we want is to show that it\u2019s just as likely — more likely, even — that this is going to be a short-lived era.\u201d<\/p>\n

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M1A2 Abrams tanks are parked in West Potomac Park ahead of the upcoming U.S. Army 250th anniversary celebration and parade in Washington, D.C., June 10, 2025.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In a \u201ctoolkit<\/a>\u201d document for organizers posted on their website, Indivisible and the coalition of more than 200 groups overseeing the events gave instructions for how people can assemble and register their own protests, but asked that organizers not schedule any events in Washington, D.C., in order to make other places the \u201ccenter of gravity,\u201d and because the coalition wants to draw a contrast with Trump.<\/p>\n

The document also asks participants to keep the protests nonviolent and to de-escalate any confrontations between protesters and others, and say weapons should not be brought to the events.<\/p>\n

Indivisible was also among the groups organizing the widely attended national \u201cHands Off<\/a>\u201d protests in April.<\/p>\n

Organizers of the protests are cognizant of the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests coming amid the White House\u2019s crackdown on protests in Los Angeles, but they express confidence in running their events successfully and say they\u2019ve gotten even more interest now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not want to give Trump an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests, which is exactly what he wants to do. We don’t want to give him some sort of narrative excuse to say protesters are protesting the military \u2026 This is a democracy. And in a democracy, power depends on the people. It flows from the people. It depends on the consent of the governed, and on Saturday we’re going to show up to make that point very clear,\u201d Levin told MSNBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progressive groups say they’ll hold more than 1,500 \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d events across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counter the military parade in Washington, D.C., marking the U.S. Army\u2019s 250th birthday. The original plan from major progressive organizing group Indivisible and others to counter the military parade with protests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11027\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}