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Hundreds Of People Have Filled Downtown Arlington For Today S No Kings

Bonisiwe Shabane
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hundreds of people have filled downtown arlington for today s no kings

Anti-Trump protesters mobilized in force across Arlington today (Saturday) as part of nationwide “No Kings Day” demonstrations ahead of the military parade in D.C. Waving signs, banners and American flags, they cheered from overpasses and chanted outside the Clarendon Metro station. An estimated 5,000 people lined long stretches of Langston Blvd from Rosslyn to Falls Church, in an attempt to form an enormous, 5.2-mile “human chain.” In Falls Church earlier in the day, they packed five blocks of Broad Street. Many of the protesters were Arlington residents, while others traveled to the county in order to be close to D.C., where no official “No Kings” events were planned. Concerns ranged from immigration policy to mass federal layoffs to funding for health care, environmental programs and USAID.

“Nobody wants their grandma to lose Medicaid, and so we just feel we need to step up and say something,” Micaela Pond, founder of We of Action Virginia, told ARLnow. “It’s not about being bad sports. It’s about basic human rights in our Constitution being violated.” There were no reports of violence or arrests at the rallies Activists and advocacy groups staged a second round of "No Kings" protests across the country on Saturday in response to what they call abuse of power by President Donald Trump and his administration, including... Photos and videos of events from Boston to Los Angeles showed huge crowds of demonstrators carrying signs protesting the administration's policies such as mass deportations.

Republicans contended the protests were "hate America" rallies and claimed they're prolonging the federal government shutdown. There were no immediate reports of violent incidents or arrests, according to local police departments. This story has been updated to include new estimates of protest crowd size. Demonstrators filled the streets of U.S. cities and towns in coordinated "No Kings" events, billed as a "national day of peaceful protest," in the largest outpouring of opposition to Trump's policies since he returned to power in January. The mostly calm marches, organized under the theme that no individual is above the law, coincided with the day President Donald Trump hosted a military parade on the streets of the nation's capital.

At least one demonstration, about 70 miles from Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia, was met with violence when a man intentionally drove an SUV through a crowd of departing protesters, striking at least one... Police in Los Angeles hit protesters with batons, fired tear gas and ordered a large crowd in downtown to disperse; authorities said they were responding to people throwing "rocks, bricks, bottles," and "fireworks" at... Activists in some areas braved wet weather to raise signs and chant slogans. supporting the rights of immigrants and criticizing what they view as a power grab by the Trump administration. Arlington resident Greg Juarez, 34, chants during the “No Kings” protest June 14 in Arlington. Juarez wore an Uncle Sam costume.

Hundreds of residents gathered for the “No Kings” protest June 14 at the Tarrant County Sub-Courthouse in Arlington, pushing back against President Donald Trump’s administration. The growing movement and organization describe the president’s administration as authoritarian. Protests were intentionally organized on the same day as the Miltary’s 250th anniversary parade, which also falls on Trump's birthday. Participants lined up on Abram Street from 10 a.m. to noon, holding up signs, chanting, and receiving support from those driving by. Similar events took place across North Texas, including Fort Worth, Dallas and Denton, where thousands of people were reported to be in attendance.

Madagascar’s army takes over as Gen Z protesters topple another government, Trump Administration revokes visas of foreigners who ‘celebrated’ Charlie Kirk’s death, and more Four months ago, more than five million Americans gathered in small towns and major cities across the country to denounce what they described as President Donald Trump’s expansion of executive power. The coordinated “No Kings” protests became one of the largest single-day demonstrations in U.S. history—and the biggest since Trump returned to the White House for a second term. Now, organizers are preparing for a second “No Kings” day on Oct. 18, with marches and rallies planned in more than 2,500 locations nationwide—including the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The movement, organized by Indivisible and a broad coalition of labor unions and activist networks, is positioning the October demonstrations as a referendum on what they call repeated “authoritarian power grabs” by the Trump... Organizers have called on Americans to gather peacefully across the nation to “remind President Trump and his enablers: America has No Kings.” The protests are set to come amid a government shutdown that has left large parts of the federal workforce furloughed or fired. Several prominent Republicans in recent days have accused Democrats of prolonging the government shutdown to align with the upcoming “No Kings” protests. House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Fox News that Democrats wouldn’t vote to reopen the government until after Saturday’s “hate America rally” because “they can’t face their rabid base.”

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