{"id":44388,"date":"2025-10-05T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44388"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T19:38:12","slug":"as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-dissent-oct-18-no-kings-protests-set-to-be-even-bigger-than-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/as-trump-escalates-attacks-on-dissent-oct-18-no-kings-protests-set-to-be-even-bigger-than-june\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump Escalates Attacks on Dissent, Oct. 18 \u2018No Kings\u2019 Protests Set to Be Even Bigger Than June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Protestors march during a \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstration on June 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re going to show up in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history,\u201d said Indivisible\u2019s co-founder. \u201cMillions will come together in more cities than ever to say collectively: No kings ever in America.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sep 30, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As President Donald Trump<\/a> and his allies continue to target immigrants, journalists, and anyone else critical of the increasingly authoritarian administration, organizers are gearing up<\/a> <\/a>for another round of \u201cNo Kings\u201d rallies across the United States, which they expect will draw even more demonstrators than a similar day of action<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSustained, broad-based, peaceful, pro-democracy grassroots movements win. Trump wanted a coronation on his birthday, and what he got instead was millions of people standing up to say NO KINGS,\u201d Indivisible co-founder and co-executive director Ezra Levin said in a Tuesday statement. \u201cNo Kings Day on June 14 was an historic demonstration of people power, and it\u2019s grown into a broad, diverse movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhile Trump escalates his attack with occupations of American cities and secret police forces terrorizing American communities, normal everyday people across this country are showing up every single day with courage and defiance. On October 18, we\u2019re going to show up in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history,\u201d he added. \u201cMillions will come together in more cities than ever to say collectively: No kings ever in America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indivisible is planning next month\u2019s peaceful protests alongside groups including the ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, Common Defense, 50501, Human Rights Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn, National Nurses United, Public Citizen<\/a>, Service Employees International Union, and United We Dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Organizers announced<\/a> the second Not Kings mobilization earlier this month. As a federal government shutdown loomed on Tuesday, they said that over 2,110 protests are now planned across all 50 states\u2014more than those that drew over 5 million people to the streets in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe the People of the United States of America reject the Trump regime\u2019s repeated assaults on our freedoms,\u201d said 50501 national press coordinator Hunter Dunn. \u201cThis administration has invaded our cities, dismantled our social services, and tossed hard-working Americans into concentration camps. He has sacrificed our Constitution on the altar of fascism. On October 18th, the American people will gather together to practice two time-honored American traditions: nonviolent protest and anti-fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, DC, and this week is moving to do the same in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois\u2014where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are already carrying out the deadly<\/a> \u201cOperation Midway Blitz\u201d as part of Trump\u2019s national push for mass deportations. The administration is also specifically targeting pro-Palestinian foreign students, which a federal judge on Tuesday rebuked<\/a> with what one reporter called \u201cthe most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also on Tuesday, during an unusual gathering of US military leadership in Virginia, Trump\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0that the country is \u201cunder invasion from within\u201d and generals should use American cities as \u201ctraining grounds,\u201d while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u00a0pledged<\/a>\u00a0to overhaul the inspector general process: \u201cNo more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints, no more smearing reputations, no more endless waiting, no more legal limbo, no more sidetracking careers, no more walking on eggshells!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Jacob Thomas, a military veteran and communications director for Common Defense, said that \u201cas veterans and patriots who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the freedoms that it enshrines, we are appalled at the lengths President Trump and his billionaire buddies have gone to to strip our neighbors and communities of the rights, dignity, and freedoms owed to everyone residing in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must all do our part to fight back against his authoritarianism and military occupation of cities,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe cannot allow a wannabe dictator to destroy our democracy, gut veteran healthcare, keep people from accessing the ballot box, and tank our economy. We must all join together in solidarity to fight back and secure our freedoms. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans stood up to a tyrant king, generations later our great-grandparents defeated fascism abroad. Now it is up to us to defeat fascism at home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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