This story was first published at Colorado Newsline.
DENVER | No Kings protests were planned in communities throughout Colorado on Saturday, part of a nationwide demonstration against Trump administration polices.
In Denver, organizers expect as many as 70,000 people to attend the protest, planned for noon at the Colorado Capitol. The event will feature speakers and musical performances throughout the day, and marches scheduled to begin after 1 p.m.
No kings protests were also planned in Colorado Springs, Aurora, Grand Junction, Fort Collins, Pueblo, Fort Morgan, Steamboat Springs, Burlington and dozens of other cities in the state. No Kings national organizers said more than 3,300 protests were planned around the country.
Sarah Williams, a 36 year old health care worker from Thornton, came to the Denver protest in a red queen dress with a sign that says “queens slay kings,” because she believes more women should be in power. She said the state of democracy in the U.S. is “in shambles” and she’s concerned about what America’s future will look like for her sister’s children.
“I worry for the youth of our nation … I worry about women’s rights. I worry about our community. I worry about people of color,” Williams said. “I believe that we need to value all people and have the very simple kindergarten rules of just treat everybody with kindness and how you want to be treated.”
Adrielle Knight, wearing a shirt with the text of the U.S. Constitution printed on it, and her friends walked down Lincoln Street carrying a large U.S. Constitution banner. They were handing out markers to fellow protesters and asking them to sign it so “they know that they are the people that our founding fathers founded this country for.”
A previous No Kings rally in Chicago inspired the project.
“I wanted to make a big banner that shows we are the people and the power lies with us,” Knight said. “I want our officials to know that we are the ones that hired them and they need to listen to us.”
This is the third No Kings protest since President Donald Trump began his second term last year. The last protest in October in Denver saw more than 25,000 attendees.
Gathering in Grand Junction
An estimate 2,500 people gathered for a No Kings protest in Grand Junction on Saturday. The event took place as Las Colonias Park.
About 40 singers performed with the Justice Choir as part of the event.
“Music is resistance, and we will not be quiet,” choir director Amanda Jackman said.
” They were handing out markers to fellow protesters and asking them to sign it so “they know that they are the people that our founding fathers founded this country for.””
LOL, an appeal to patriotism from a leftist will always be hilarious. Just six years ago these same people were saying the same document “wasn’t written for me.” But with them, every day is a clean slate and the arguments made yesterday don’t matter today if it doesn’t advance their moronic dialectic.