For a second time this yr, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets throughout the nation on Oct. 18 to reject President Donald Trump and what demonstrators referred to as an “authoritarian” administration. New York was no exception, with as many as 100,000 collaborating throughout the 5 Boroughs, the NYPD says. No arrests had been made.
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The protest was a direct response to Trump’s unprecedented strikes in his second time period in workplace to consolidate government energy by ignoring courtroom orders and the Structure, the weaponization of federal troops, a mass deportation agenda, and price range cuts to important social companies.
The central theme of the protests is to hammer dwelling the message that the “president just isn’t a king.”
“Trump isn’t simply attempting to rule like a king — he’s fusing company energy with state energy to entrench an oligarchy,” stated Joseph Geevarghese, government director of Our Revolution, in a press release. “However America doesn’t belong to billionaires or authoritarians. From the store ground to metropolis corridor, working persons are organizing to reclaim our democracy and construct a authorities that serves all of us — not the ruling class.”
The preliminary No Kings Day protests passed off June 14, the identical day because the U.S. Military 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump’s 79th birthday. It’s unclear if future marches are deliberate.
