Demonstrations across the country, including the Tampa Bay area, will happen Saturday.
According to the Mobilize.US website, people will demonstrate against cracking down on free speech, detaining people for their political views, threatening to deport American citizens, and defying the courts.
There are “No Kings” protests going on in Palm Harbor, St. Pete, Tampa and more.
Diane Rose is the co-organizer of a Pinellas County demonstration. She says she presumes that most people are disappointed with an authoritarian-style military parade Donald Trump plans for that day.
“Many in the nation basically reject Donald Trump’s use of taxpayer money, and the diversion of military resources,” Rose said.
There are more than 1,800 “No Kings” Day events planned on June 14 across the nation.
In Largo, the demonstration starts at 9:00 a.m. at the intersection of East Bay Drive and Seminole Boulevard.
In Tampa, people will gather in front of Tampa City Hall from 3:00-6:00 p.m.
A demonstration in Gulfport was announced this week.
In St. Petersburg, the protest will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the Tyrone area of St. Petersburg near the corners of 22nd Avenue North and 66th Street.
The demonstration in St. Petersburg is organized by the Pinellas National Organization for Women. Pinellas NOW is a feminist organization fighting for women’s rights and human rights. They will join many other organizations across America to protest ICE raids, setbacks in women’s rights, and other violations of human rights.
Helen Amburgey, a board member of Pinellas NOW says their goal is visibility and being heard.
“We’re gonna be making our voices heard on Saturday to say, we don’t have kings in America, we don’t have kings in the United States. We have a president, we have, you know, a government, we have a constitution, and we expect that it will be followed,” Amburgey said.
To register for any of the protests visit nokings.org.
8 Responses to ““No Kings” day protests are scheduled for Saturday”
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Can u send a list of no king events in Pinellas county. I’m planning to attend. Can’t find complete list on line. I’m in Seminole
The best place to find up-to-date info about Saturday events is the http://www.nokings.org website. Search using your zip code for closest events,
We are protesting the first president since Eisenhower that has worked to stop wars. Obama and Biden deported far more immigrants than Trump. Okay, he is really screwing up on some things but he is not a deep state shill which is what we have known for the past few decades. I am far left; I am not MAGA but I am also not a deep state dupe. I’ll be there to protest the genocide in Israel.
PRO PRESIDENT TRUMP will be there FOR the majority of Americans not anti Americans Socialists Democrats
The big beautiful tax break for billionaires is a scam. We’ve seen this trickle-down economic policy three times already. What it accompishes is shift money from the working class, to those that already have so much money they don’t know what to do with it all (other than buy more politicians). Ironic that those that ‘want to make America great again’, i.e., to go back to a time when all it took was the wages from one unskilled manual laborer to buy a home and raise a family, support policies that place us all further and further away from the American dream.
Thanks for all this great information, see you tomorrow!! No Kings, No Autocrats! No Fear! Chinga La Migra!
Just over 20% of American citizens and barely more than a third of voting age citizens (not eligible or registered, voting age) voted against democracy and America itself to put this monster back in the White House.
Those of you who have been brainwashed into joining his cult are un-American and anti-democracy, it’s a shame you weren’t living in 1930s Italy, it would have suited you.
Please try not to run down any true Americans resisting tyranny today.
You should really educate yourself; furthermore the only reason this is even happening is because the previous administration allowed millions of illegal immigrants to just waltz in unchecked. Go to any other country in the world and try to sneak in and watch what happens. It’s not up to Americans to foot the bill for people who committed a crime before even entering the place.