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23 No Kings Protests Planned In The Hudson Valley This Weekend Msn

Bonisiwe Shabane
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23 no kings protests planned in the hudson valley this weekend msn

When protestors gather again on Saturday, October 18 in towns from Woodstock to Warwick, they’ll be carrying hand-painted signs that read No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. The slogan—part defiance, part plea—has become shorthand for a country sliding toward strongman rule. The No Kings movement began last June as a spontaneous eruption of outrage against Trump’s planned military parade in Washington. What was then framed as a symbolic protest has since hardened into something more urgent: a grassroots defense of constitutional democracy itself.

Since those first rallies, the administration has acted as if the spectacle never ended. Federal troops have been deployed to American cities under the pretext of “anti-crime operations,” conducting warrantless searches and detentions that local officials describe as unlawful. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched aggressive incursions into “non-cooperating” cities—including raids in the Hudson Valley—without local coordination or judicial oversight. Abroad, the pattern has extended to military action. In August, US Navy patrols in the Caribbean sank two unarmed Venezuelan fishing vessels accused of “narcotics activity,” killing 14 crew members. No public evidence has been produced, and no congressional inquiry has been allowed.

Each episode adds to a portrait of executive power exercised without accountability—what constitutional scholars once warned could become “emergency government as normal practice.” At home, new executive orders have granted federal agencies wide latitude to disregard congressional subpoenas and to coordinate with private militias for “border assistance.” Critics in both parties see these moves as a direct... In the latest in a series of mass protests since President Donald Trump took office, "No Kings" rallies and marches will be held at more than 2,500 locations nationwide on Oct. 18, including in the mid-Hudson Valley. The protests are meant as a celebration of free speech, the right to assemble and the First Amendment broadly. It is also an opportunity to push back against recent moves by Trump's administration including increased immigration enforcement, organizers say.

“This, without question, will be the single biggest day of protest in American history," said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, which is helping organize the rallies. “Since we last did this, people have become far more aware of what is going wrong with this administration." Rallies, protests and marches will be held in big cities and small towns across the country. Protesters are being urged to wear yellow. Asked for reaction to the protests Oct. 14, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson replied “Who cares?”

Topics you care about, straight to your inbox Topics you care about, straight to your inbox After days of protests in Los Angeles and and New York City, the Lower Hudson Valley is preparing for an influx of demonstrations slated for Saturday, June 14. The demonstrations, spearheaded by local organizers from the group "No Kings", are planned to protest against the actions of President Donald Trump's administration. Seven protests are planned for Saturday in Rockland and Westchester counties alone. There are seven No Kings protests planned in Westchester and Rockland for Saturday, June 14.

See our map below for locations. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of lower Manhattan Tuesday, June 10 to rally against anti-immigrant rhetoric and the actions of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration. Cries of "Down, down with deportation; up, up with liberation" rung through the streets as large crowds carrying colorful signs made their way through the Big Apple. The fight doesn’t end here. No Kings was a beginning — a reminder that power belongs to the people, not to those who would rule over us.

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