No Kings protest live updates: millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest

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No Kings protest live updates: millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest - Lemmy

Marina Dunbar (now) and Sarah Haque (earlier) Sat 18 Oct 2025 17.51 EDT

“I was actually OK with everything until I found that the military invasion in Los Angeles and Chicago and Portland – Portland bothered me the most, because I’m from Portland, and I don’t want the military in my cities. That’s scary,” Wingard said.
Sounds like a true conservative. No empathy for a situation until it hits close to home.
Without strikes and boycotts nothing will fundamentally change. This is a minor inconvenience that is if the ruling class even noticed.
Those things won’t happens it out organization and organization won’t happen without people meeting up in real life, even if it’s only a tiny tiny tiny percentage of them and even if they’re dressed like stupid frogs
People don’t meet up in real life as much as they used to before computers. It’s basically one of the major holdups for any reform
people use protests like these to tell millions of people shot boycotts and general strikes. In columbus, socialist and communist orgs were out talking about it.
Planning out a general strike 4 years in advance and after the entirety of the trump term does nothing for the working class.
some people don’t even know striking is a thing