No Kings Day...2025
Jun. 14th, 2025 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatOn the day that a wannabe king held a military parade (allegedly) in favor of his seventy-ninth birthday [in reality it was for the Army's 250th Birthday and the army was in very poor spirits, shuffling down the road - they also protested in their own way by marching to Creedence Clearwater's Fortunate Son] - across the United States, in all fifty states and territories, and in and around Europe inclusive of London, Paris, Frankfurt, Berlin, etc, people marched and protested against the wannabe king, and all dictatorships, fascism and kings, peacefully, side by side, carrying signs and singing songs in protest. Shouting so all could be heard: This is what Democracy Looks Like!
Over 11 million [ETA: actual headcount is now 12.1 Million] or 3.5% of the overall population showed up in the US alone [as reported by Alt National Parks and those who counted on the ground and provided reports as they happened - they use drones, and handcounters apparently, and multiple by size of crowd and square footage of the area], more than any other protest on record in the United States. They marched in solidarity and peacefully. Waving signs. They marched in the rain. It was pouring in New York City and in the sixities. They marched in scorching heat, across the Southwest and in California and in Florida, and Mississippi, and Texas. Veterans marched up the Capital Steps, and elderly women from nursing homes came out in their wheelchairs and canes and walkers, to march in their small communities. They stood on sidewalks in Metropolitan DC waving signs, and along highways, in towns. They formed signs with their bodies along the beaches of California. And in Mountain Towns they shouted down the slopes. They came out in droves. Filling city blocks for as far the eye could see.
All chanting. No Kings. Impeach. Remove. This is What Democracy Looks Like.
From sea to shining sea. Every single State across the country showed up and protested the wannabe king. Every one.
While very few attended the military parade, which had prepared for 200,000 and got maybe 10,000 [ETA:8,900 was the official count, don't trust the broadcast news media - they are lying. It was 8,900.] if that. And many were people protesting it, discreetly.
NYC outdid itself, with about 25,000 by 9 am, after noon, it had risen to well over 50,000, among the largest protests in its history astonishing those who've gone to them. San Francisco got creative and made Human Banner that can be seen from the sky ...
The police stood silently by. Some helped and marched with them.
They protested in small towns across America. They protested on Long Island. They protested in Alaska. They protested in Boise, and they protested in Grand Rapids. They protested in Arizona and in Texas. They protested in Nashville, Tennessee, and Talahassee, Florida. They protested in Red States and in Blue States. They came out rain or shine.
The people came and stood shoulder to shoulder, shouting and waving signs.
No Kings! No Kings! No ICE! Everyone is legal here! This is what true Democracy Looks Like!
And those of us who watched, cheered them on, and were there in spirit if not in body.
Links:
NBC NEWS - No Kings Day Protests
ABC NEWS - No Kings
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2025/06/14/livestream-video-of-no-kings-protests-from-across-the-us-how-to-watch/84200645007/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-kings-day-demonstration-protest-rally-trump-military-parade/
ETA:Mid-year estimates: U.S. pop is 345,275,807. Which puts 12 million at 3.5 percent. (If 3.5% of the population protests continuously, studies state they win. )
ETA:*Note a No Kings Rally wasn't held in Washington DC - and held instead in Philly, which had over 100K show up. Also people did protest in DC, they stood on the sidewalks holding signs in the Metropolitan Area, and some went to the parade to protest discreetly, but bravely, making their voices heard.
ETA: per the headcounters in their towns - posting on FB, it's reliable. They were on the ground and counting and got it from their local outlets.
1 million marched in Boston
200,000 in New York City (I'm willing to bet it was closer to a million)
100,000 in Philadelphia
100,000 in San Francisco
70,000 in Seattle
20,000 in Los Angeles
20,000 in San Diego
80,000 in St Paul, MN
14,000 in Oakland
12,000 in Santa Rosa
2,000 in Tuscon
4,000 in Dayton, Ohio
4,000 in West Palm Beach, Fla
2,000 in Columbia, Ma (it's very small folks)
8,000 in Cincinnati, Ohio
8,000 in Santa Monica
(I know my niece marched and protested in Redding, California)
12K registered in Colorado Springs, Co
12 K in Santa Rosa, California
30,000 in St. Paul, Minnesota despite the protest having been officially called off after the assassination of Democratic politicians in MN?
7000-12000 in Pacifica, California
6-8000 in Wichita, Kansas [Wichita is about the size of Cardiff Wales, if that. It's very small.)
100,000 in San Francisco, California
13K in Ellsworth Maine
2500 in tiny Wrst Jefferson, NC!!
10,000 in Eugene, Oregon! (I don't think Eugene has more than maybe 15-20,000 people)
4000 in Morristown NJ
1500 in Watsonville, California.
2-3k in Tulsa!!!
800- 900 Cortland NY
4,000 of us in Gainesville, Florida
1700 here in Kona, Hawaii (their biggest yet!), nearly 2k in Hilo, Hawaii, and over 1k in Waimea, Hawaii
Several hundred people in Evansville, IN after having a flash flood that morning
1000 Ocala, Flordia
1400 Lakeland, Florida
400 Plant City, Florida
2000 Venice, Florida
1500 Lake Mary, Florida
2200 Cocoa, Florida
1100 Port St. Lucie Florida
1200 Daytona Beach, Florida
(These are rough estimates I’ve gotten from Fl events)
70,000 Seattle!
2000 -Bloomington Indiana
7,000 in Walnut Creek!
12,000 Indianapolis,
10,000 Louisville Kentucky
3000 - 4000 - Mt Vernon, WA
268 in Hardwick vt
50 + in small Crawfordsville IN - bright red
90 in Spencer Indiana
10,000 in dallas (it was more than that.)
800 in very Republican little Sierra Vista, Arizona
Hendersonville 3800-4200 per local police
1,000 in Brevard
Little Kenmore, WA had three grey-haired ladies with signs on a street corner, waving at passing cars. The amount of honking in reply was amazing!
Sioux City, IA peaceful and powerful in unity! Best rally yet (Very RED)
West coast - Largo & Seminole.. even the Villages!! (3,000 for the villages)
estimated 5,000 demonstrators in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sleepy Aiken, SC, 1,500!
Columbia ,SC we had 5000 strong!
The newspaper said "over 1000" for Charleston. It did look more like 2000 or more!.
Ithaca,NY estimated 2000, which is a pretty good turnout for a relatively small place, where there were also two other major activities the same day (that I know of - a Pride Parade and a Juneteenth celebration).
Police estimate for Kingston, NY, was 5K; a journalist whom I asked thought closer to 10K.
We had about 1,000 at ours in Mason City, IA
10K in Kansas City (it's not that big)
They also had them in Florence, Italy. Lexington, Ky, and the list goes on and on.
State of Alaska Totals [Alaska is not a highly populated State and very RED]
State of AK totals as shared by Stand Up Alaska!
Anchorage - 5k
Fairbanks - 2k
Gustavus - 113
Homer - 1.3k
Juneau - 1.7k
Kodiak - 170
Kotzebue - 42
Matsu/palmer - 350
Valdez - 70
Seldovia - 33 (only 78 folks in this whole town)
Sitka - 379
Talkeetna - 85
Early numbers tend low, counts still coming in.
Post them here when you get them in.
We will have official counts in a few days.
Over 11 million [ETA: actual headcount is now 12.1 Million] or 3.5% of the overall population showed up in the US alone [as reported by Alt National Parks and those who counted on the ground and provided reports as they happened - they use drones, and handcounters apparently, and multiple by size of crowd and square footage of the area], more than any other protest on record in the United States. They marched in solidarity and peacefully. Waving signs. They marched in the rain. It was pouring in New York City and in the sixities. They marched in scorching heat, across the Southwest and in California and in Florida, and Mississippi, and Texas. Veterans marched up the Capital Steps, and elderly women from nursing homes came out in their wheelchairs and canes and walkers, to march in their small communities. They stood on sidewalks in Metropolitan DC waving signs, and along highways, in towns. They formed signs with their bodies along the beaches of California. And in Mountain Towns they shouted down the slopes. They came out in droves. Filling city blocks for as far the eye could see.
All chanting. No Kings. Impeach. Remove. This is What Democracy Looks Like.
From sea to shining sea. Every single State across the country showed up and protested the wannabe king. Every one.
While very few attended the military parade, which had prepared for 200,000 and got maybe 10,000 [ETA:8,900 was the official count, don't trust the broadcast news media - they are lying. It was 8,900.] if that. And many were people protesting it, discreetly.
NYC outdid itself, with about 25,000 by 9 am, after noon, it had risen to well over 50,000, among the largest protests in its history astonishing those who've gone to them. San Francisco got creative and made Human Banner that can be seen from the sky ...
The police stood silently by. Some helped and marched with them.
They protested in small towns across America. They protested on Long Island. They protested in Alaska. They protested in Boise, and they protested in Grand Rapids. They protested in Arizona and in Texas. They protested in Nashville, Tennessee, and Talahassee, Florida. They protested in Red States and in Blue States. They came out rain or shine.
The people came and stood shoulder to shoulder, shouting and waving signs.
No Kings! No Kings! No ICE! Everyone is legal here! This is what true Democracy Looks Like!
And those of us who watched, cheered them on, and were there in spirit if not in body.
Links:
NBC NEWS - No Kings Day Protests
ABC NEWS - No Kings
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2025/06/14/livestream-video-of-no-kings-protests-from-across-the-us-how-to-watch/84200645007/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-kings-day-demonstration-protest-rally-trump-military-parade/
ETA:Mid-year estimates: U.S. pop is 345,275,807. Which puts 12 million at 3.5 percent. (If 3.5% of the population protests continuously, studies state they win. )
ETA:*Note a No Kings Rally wasn't held in Washington DC - and held instead in Philly, which had over 100K show up. Also people did protest in DC, they stood on the sidewalks holding signs in the Metropolitan Area, and some went to the parade to protest discreetly, but bravely, making their voices heard.
ETA: per the headcounters in their towns - posting on FB, it's reliable. They were on the ground and counting and got it from their local outlets.
1 million marched in Boston
200,000 in New York City (I'm willing to bet it was closer to a million)
100,000 in Philadelphia
100,000 in San Francisco
70,000 in Seattle
20,000 in Los Angeles
20,000 in San Diego
80,000 in St Paul, MN
14,000 in Oakland
12,000 in Santa Rosa
2,000 in Tuscon
4,000 in Dayton, Ohio
4,000 in West Palm Beach, Fla
2,000 in Columbia, Ma (it's very small folks)
8,000 in Cincinnati, Ohio
8,000 in Santa Monica
(I know my niece marched and protested in Redding, California)
12K registered in Colorado Springs, Co
12 K in Santa Rosa, California
30,000 in St. Paul, Minnesota despite the protest having been officially called off after the assassination of Democratic politicians in MN?
7000-12000 in Pacifica, California
6-8000 in Wichita, Kansas [Wichita is about the size of Cardiff Wales, if that. It's very small.)
100,000 in San Francisco, California
13K in Ellsworth Maine
2500 in tiny Wrst Jefferson, NC!!
10,000 in Eugene, Oregon! (I don't think Eugene has more than maybe 15-20,000 people)
4000 in Morristown NJ
1500 in Watsonville, California.
2-3k in Tulsa!!!
800- 900 Cortland NY
4,000 of us in Gainesville, Florida
1700 here in Kona, Hawaii (their biggest yet!), nearly 2k in Hilo, Hawaii, and over 1k in Waimea, Hawaii
Several hundred people in Evansville, IN after having a flash flood that morning
1000 Ocala, Flordia
1400 Lakeland, Florida
400 Plant City, Florida
2000 Venice, Florida
1500 Lake Mary, Florida
2200 Cocoa, Florida
1100 Port St. Lucie Florida
1200 Daytona Beach, Florida
(These are rough estimates I’ve gotten from Fl events)
70,000 Seattle!
2000 -Bloomington Indiana
7,000 in Walnut Creek!
12,000 Indianapolis,
10,000 Louisville Kentucky
3000 - 4000 - Mt Vernon, WA
268 in Hardwick vt
50 + in small Crawfordsville IN - bright red
90 in Spencer Indiana
10,000 in dallas (it was more than that.)
800 in very Republican little Sierra Vista, Arizona
Hendersonville 3800-4200 per local police
1,000 in Brevard
Little Kenmore, WA had three grey-haired ladies with signs on a street corner, waving at passing cars. The amount of honking in reply was amazing!
Sioux City, IA peaceful and powerful in unity! Best rally yet (Very RED)
West coast - Largo & Seminole.. even the Villages!! (3,000 for the villages)
estimated 5,000 demonstrators in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Sleepy Aiken, SC, 1,500!
Columbia ,SC we had 5000 strong!
The newspaper said "over 1000" for Charleston. It did look more like 2000 or more!.
Ithaca,NY estimated 2000, which is a pretty good turnout for a relatively small place, where there were also two other major activities the same day (that I know of - a Pride Parade and a Juneteenth celebration).
Police estimate for Kingston, NY, was 5K; a journalist whom I asked thought closer to 10K.
We had about 1,000 at ours in Mason City, IA
10K in Kansas City (it's not that big)
They also had them in Florence, Italy. Lexington, Ky, and the list goes on and on.
State of Alaska Totals [Alaska is not a highly populated State and very RED]
State of AK totals as shared by Stand Up Alaska!
Anchorage - 5k
Fairbanks - 2k
Gustavus - 113
Homer - 1.3k
Juneau - 1.7k
Kodiak - 170
Kotzebue - 42
Matsu/palmer - 350
Valdez - 70
Seldovia - 33 (only 78 folks in this whole town)
Sitka - 379
Talkeetna - 85
Early numbers tend low, counts still coming in.
Post them here when you get them in.
We will have official counts in a few days.
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Date: 2025-06-15 10:45 pm (UTC)Thanks for asking.