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.
These individuals may not yet realize it but they are simply functioning as useful pawns for the Marxists (Communists) who have organized and underwritten these events to foment civil unrest in our country. We now know the same was true of the BLM protests/riots in 2020.
As an veteran activist of over 60 years I’ve been hearing “accusations” like yours for… over 60 years.
Do you know how much proof or evidence has been discovered that might give a grain of truth to the allegation? Nada, None, NOT ONE BIT. But “deep thinkers” like you keep bringing the fact free nonsense.
If you want to know whose on a foreign payroll take a look at the the fascists in the White House.
Oh boy, another Boomerlib fossil who thinks anyone who doesn’t follow his moronic political theology is a fascist.
For one to find evidence, one must have the desire to look. Follow the money. Who is paying the people to organize these demonstrations? Who is paying for some of the expensive signage? What are their political affiliations and country of loyalty? Have you checked? Neither have I. But I have heard some concerning things. And disinformation goes both ways. The United States government is also behind some of the clandestine efforts to alter public opinion and incite civil unrest in countries which are adversarial to us. Look at our efforts in North Korea and Iran. It stands to reason that our adversaries are engaged in similar efforts here. My point stands: Are you being used?
I’m a Democratic Socialist, but whatever my politics, better that than a fascist taint sniffer like you. At least I’m willing to show up in defense of our Constitutional Rights. You are so uninformed, it’s embarrassing.
Yes, Boomer, we realize you think anyone that doesn’t think exactly like you is a fascist. Stop appealing to a document that your team said six years ago “wasn’t written for you,” and that you claim is “racist and undemocratic” when you think it’s preventing you from gaining more political power. You’re not a gnostic, so you have no authority on what being “informed” is even like.
The “Constitutional Rights” thing is somewhat confusing. Which rights did your protest change (or defend)? One thing you deserve to be proud of however – I know of no arrests made in Aurora. Kudos to all of you. This is unlike some of your rock-throwing counterparts in large Democrat-run cities.
A protest about what, exactly?
“Trump administration polices”, sure, but which ones and why? Popular government lives and dies on the virtue of the people and their ability to build consensus with reasoned arguments.
One could be justified in saying that this is just a hate rally, a “We Hate Trump!” rally. That some hate President Trump isn’t news, but it also isn’t a reason for anybody to change their political opinions.
As a news piece, this lacks any real news.
Trump and his administration brand Democrats as “Leftist radicals,” but it is Trump who has rendered the GOP ineffective and sent military troops and combat outfitted ICE Storm Troopers to kill American citizens and deport hard working taxpayer who are NOT violent criminals. No, we see Trump for what he is a wannabe dictator and we see the GOP for what it is – a feckless group of right wing radical lemmings – running off of the cliff and destroying the pillars of our democracy!
Translation:”My team isn’t being allowed to do anything we want, so we’re oppressed.”
LOL @ the Russian MAGA sockpuppet pretending this is unpossible.
Sorry the drone supplier of that same country you’ve been spazzing about for a decade is getting pasted right now. But I realize this is just Schroedinger’s Patriotism on your part.
Ooooh, look like that FPV hit kind of close to home. Better luck next time, vatnik, Don’t spend your $0.33 all at once.
Sorry your Basij allies are getting pasted, sharmuta. Try a different magic spell, that one fizzled.