Demonstrations will be held across the US, with flagship event in Twin Cities, where ICE fatally shot two people
A third No Kings protest will be held on 28 March, organizers announced today. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said that he expects it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.
Protests will be held nationwide, with a flagship event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities – Minneapolis and St Paul – where this month federal immigration agents killed two residents, Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, amid their escalated operations in the region.
Levin said No Kings 3 is a response to many Americans’ growing outrage over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “reign of terror” in communities across the country. The coalition behind the No Kings protests also hosted a mass mobilization “weekend of action” immediately following Good’s death, which included more than 1,000 protests, vigils and other events. According to recent polling from YouGov, more Americans now support abolishing ICE than oppose it.
Not entirely, actually. That part surprised me when I first went. They couldn’t control what I handed out to people for sure, and there were numerous organizations with stand-up tents there that weren’t listed as part of the official organizations, and one of them even explicitly mentioned to me that the organizers weren’t happy with them being there, but they didn’t care and had set up 4 separate booths around the general area of the protest.
That I can 100% agree on. Though it does seem like the pace is picking up more as time goes on.