By Mark Gruenberg\YouTube Screenshots
Photos: Wikimedia Commons
WASHINGTON—In the few days since the historic turnout of 7 million Americans in demonstrations against the Trump agenda the would-be dictator Trump has faced opposition to the harm he is inflicting with the government shutdown, his continued abuse of immigrants, his continued attacks on union workers, the wrecking ball he has used to destroy a White House belonging to the people which symbolizes the destructive nature of his regime, and to his stepped up extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean.
Tens of thousands of organizers and supporters of the No Kings Day demonstrations from coast to coast went online last night to give form to this opposition by mapping plans to not just continue but to step up the pressure on the Trump regime to end all of these attacks, fueled by the White House’s frontal assault on democracy.
The 41,000 on the October 21 Zoom call heard moderator Ashlee Woodard-Henderson and other organizers detail actions people could take by themselves or in groups to put immediate pressure on lawmakers to resist and overcome the Trump tyranny and his MAGA followers.
She urged everyone to jump in via phones, e-mails, and by joining upcoming events that are already being posted on www.nokings.org, as follow-ups to the seven million people who massed and marched nationwide on October 18.
A video shown to the viewers featured crowds ranging from 400,000 in midtown Manhattan to 250,000 in Chicago’s Grant Park alone—though 150,000 or more ranged from the Lake Shore Drive bridge over the Chicago River southwards to museums and westwards into the Loop. In addition, there were 200,000 in downtown D.C.
But the video viewed by 40,000 last night also showed 2,000 in Chattanooga, Tenn., 20,000 in Kansas City, and a lone woman waving her “No Kings” sign at the edge of a two-lane road in deep-red Beckley, W. Va., and 28 Native Americans held “No Kings” signs while braving a blizzard in northern Alaska.
“People may say ‘It’s impossible to fight this authoritarian trend,’” Woodard-Henderson said. “But we know we can. Our ancestors and elders did” in other...READ MORE.
