Progressives that support the ‘Day of No Kings’ protests in the United States to counteract Trump and the military parade

Progressive groups say they will celebrate more than 1,500 events of “No Kings Day” in the United States on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counteract the military parade in Washington, DC, marking the 250 birthday of the US Army.

The original plan of the important indivisible progressive organizing group and others to counteract the military parade with protests was announced for the first time in early May. But indivisible executive director Ezra Levin He told MSNBC On Monday night, President Donald Trump’s response to protests against immigration and customs application in Los Angeles has taken many more people to the NO Kings website, and that the group has scheduled more training this week in response to the “overwhelming interest.”

In its May Press statement announcing the events, indivisible said that the parade is intended to be a “television television domain display [Trump’s] Birthday “and that the president is using military birthday to celebrate his, which also falls on June 14.

Last month, when asked about the reports of the military parade by NBC News, Trump said the parade plans “are not for my birthday”, but are for the day of the flag and to celebrate the military. The Pentagon and the Army have said that they are planning their own birthday celebration and that they do not plan to sing “happy birthday” to the president.

Indivisible has also called to what the White House against the courts and deportations and administrative actions that, according to him, has harmed civil rights and decimated services that people need.

“This country does not belong to a king, and we are not leaving himself a parade funded by dozens of millions of dollars of our taxpayers while we rob and eliminate our rights, our freedoms and the programs in which our families trust,” he said indivisible in a statement last month. “On June 14, we are joining to send a clear message: without thrones. Without crowns. There are no kings.”

In a press release on Friday, indivisible said, in addition to locations throughout the country, there are events planned in Europe and South America.

“Donald Trump and his regime are taking energetic measures against the media, business, higher education and civil society more widely, any person who opposes them,” said Friday, indivisible co-executive director, Leah Greenberg, in a statement. “That is the context in which Donald Trump launched his plans for his birthday parade … He wants people to think that his power is inevitable, that his consolidation is a fact. What we want is to demonstrate that it is equally likely, even more likely, that this is a short -term era.”

In a “Tool kit“Document for the organizers published on their website, indivisible and the coalition of more than 200 groups that supervise the events gave instructions on how people can gather and register their own protests, but asked that the organizers not schedule any event in Washington, DC, to make other places the” center of gravity “, and because the coalition wants to make a contrast with Trump.

The document also asks participants to maintain non -violent protests and decline any confrontation between protesters and others, and say that weapons should not be taken to events.

Indivisible was also one of the groups that organized national protests of “hands out” widely served in April.

The organizers of the protests are aware of the protests of “No Reyes” that come in the midst of the repression of the White House against protests in Los Angeles, but express their confidence in managing their events successfully and say they have received even more interest now.

“We do not want to give Trump an excuse to take energetic measures against peaceful protests, which is exactly what he wants to do. We do not want It is clear, “, what we are going to do that point,”, which we are going to make that on Saturday we are going to make that very clear point. “