They said 5M showed on for the first one on June 14.
The No Kings protests, also known internationally as the No Dictators or No Tyrants protests, is a series of demonstrations that took place on June 14, 2025 (labelled as No Kings Day by the participants), largely in the United States, against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency, including his purported fascist tendencies and associated democratic backsliding in the U.S. The protests took place on the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade and Trump's 79th birthday.
Organizers estimated that more than five million people participated in more than 2,100 cities and towns, including the flagship event in Philadelphia. More protests took place in the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands, and in 20 foreign countries, including Canada, Japan, Mexico, and in Europe.
In countries with constitutional monarchies such as Canada and the United Kingdom, the alternate "Dictators" or "Tyrants" titles were favored over "Kings" to avoid confusion with anti-monarchic movements; Hawaii did the same to avoid confusion with a King Kamehameha Day parade held on the same day.
Last no kings protest here had Palestinian flags outnumber any other 90:10 and was partly organized by psl iirc.
Saw lots of lib boomers show up happy to be a part of something.
This unwillingness to subjugate liberals and subsume them into leftism is silly
The one in my town invited the police to join them on the town green
They also asked people who brought any flag that wasn't a USAan one to leave
Meanwhile, my separate and unaffiliated protest across the street did just fine because I picked up the people who actually cared about things
The one over here was completely run by libs. All the speakers were libs. And yet, there was a sizeable contingent of people there with positions a lot more radical than the organizers.
The fact that there was a sizeable contingent of radical people there makes it worth going to, no?
It seems like it depends a lot on how organized the local leftist movement is. Still wouldn’t hurt to go either way
During the last protest I almost forgot it was happening until I went on public transit for some other reason and it was the most packed I've ever seen it
exactly. people here forget the leninist method involves coopting libs as one of its main tenets.
their politics are fake, but their outrage with the burgeoise is very real. they just don't know it.
That's great. Ours had like 2, and mine was one of them. I go to these "indivisible" type demos at least as much to remind libs of Palestine as anything.