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"As tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Washington on Saturday,
several million people around the country turned out to protest against the
excesses of Donald Trump’s administration.
The protests, dubbed “No Kings”, took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide,
from big cities to small towns. A coalition of more than 100 groups joined
together to plan the protests, which are committed to a principle of
nonviolence.
This week, the president has deployed national guard and US marine troops to
Los Angeles to crack down on protesters who have demonstrated against his
ramped-up deportations, defying state and local authorities in a show of
military force that hasn’t been seen in the US since the civil rights era.
Interest in the Saturday protests rose as a result, organizers said, including
at a site near Trump’s south Florida Mar-a-Lago estate.
No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events drew millions of people, with
some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These
included more than 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus
some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town
of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their
800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.
The protests were largely peaceful, though some – in Los Angeles and Portland –
were later deemed unlawful assembly by law enforcement and met with teargas."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
