More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday. All these events will take place under a single banner: No Kings.
Formally launched in June to fight back against Trump administration policies, the No Kings movement has grown with astonishing speed – its second and most recent mass protest in October drew an estimated 7 million participants. Organizers expect Saturday’s events to be the biggest protest in American history.
But the movement is also leaderless, broad in cause and hasn’t advanced any policy demands. Some social movements experts recognize No Kings’ momentum but question if it needs clearer goals.
“There’s not any one way to get people into a movement. You want to have as many doors open as possible because you have to reach people wherever they are,” said Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. “The bigger challenge is, once they’re there, how do you keep them there, and then how do you channel that engagement in collective ways?”
But organizers say they are aware of such critiques and that these choices are all by design.
“The name No Kings is, in and of itself, a demand. It is a direct repudiation of this administration, of this regime, of its unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and frankly profane actions,” said Hunter Dunn, an organizer with the 50501 movement, one of the groups behind No Kings. “It’s a declaration of intent that we are going to return power back to the people.”
Oh look. The same attack they used against Occupy Wall Street. Expect it to be repeated until its accepted wisdom.
The [no kings] movement is also leaderless.
So … they should elect a king to follow?
Of course, the Trump administration needs someone to target as a domestic terrorist. The entire country can’t be labelled domestic terrorists, they obviously need a leader… Who can be made an example of
The entire country can’t be labelled domestic terrorists
Trump: Hold my beer
I thought the demand was to return power to congress.
This Congress? The one that abdicated power?
Midterms are this year. Not happy where things are going? Run for something in the primaries, or support someone who is.
Ok. Which primary candidates aren’t lying to me?
I don’t know your local area and I’m not going to do that research for you. Look up who’s running in your state and district, for every position down the ballot, in federal, state, and local government. Don’t be lazy.
Find out who you agree with most, or as a last resort who you disagree with least, and if you question whether you can trust the information that’s available about them, dig a little deeper.
Look into their voting record to see if it aligns with their stated values and goals. Look into their financials, who they receive donations from, where they primarily source their campaign funds, whether they own any stock. Look into their public activities, whether they’re civically active in the causes they claim to care about. Look into their career before they got into politics and ask yourself what that says about them.
But don’t go on lemmy asking people to tell you who to vote for. That’s just asinine.
How’s all that research working out for you so far?
The research that I’m not doing on your behalf?
Are you delusional?
Surely you must have done it for yourself, right? How’d it work out?
Still fascism, huh? Bummer.
do they need clearer goals?
They need more persistence and more frequency.
1day protests every 4 or 5 months isn’t putting pressure on anyone.
Tbh I think they really only slowed down because it was the absolute dead of winter.
If the weather is enough to stop protests, the country is more cooked than I thought.
Some 50501 chapters are speaking out about demands https://50501demands.com/
I’m sure the adminstration will listen
Fuck yes
I’ve said this before nokings 1, and nokings 2
If it’s just going to be protest parades, then don’t even bother, you’re wasting your time.
Let me be very clear: nokings 1 & 2 changed. nothing.
If you want to change things, protest for weeks, protest in from of the Whitehouse and don’t leave until the Cheeto is gone
“Letting the perfect get in the way of the good.”
Most people can’t stop working and/or travel to DC for endless protests, but they can go out on a Saturday afternoon.
If that’s the least someone can do, don’t tell them not to.
I won’t tell people what not to do, I just fucking wish they would do something useful and so far no single american has done anything remotely useful to stop trump. There are small nudges, zingers, a little cute protest here and there and that’s it. You have a fucking pedophile for president that makes people disappear from the streets and you do nothing.
I don’t tell people what they can’t do, I’m telling them to DO SOMETHING USEFUL
Awesome, you first. Show us how it’s done!
Leave it up to Americans to tell others to fix the problems they created
So you don’t have anything of value to add?
That would still be more than you have added
Smug motherfucker. A lot of people in the USA are one absence from losing their job. Most of us cannot handle an unexpected $500 expense.
How do you propose we just up and protest for weeks? The nokings protests are alleoing people to build support networks so a general strike is actuslly feasible. So they are accomplishing something.
You, on the other hand, continue to be useless.
A lot of people in the USA are one absence from losing their job. Most of us cannot handle an unexpected $500 expense.
Shouldn’t either of these things be enough for people to PROTEST EVERY FUCKING DAY!??! Add to that that your current “big strong leader” is a pants shitting murdering pedophile who is speed running your country off a cliff and I would feel that if I were American, I would be protesting every fucking day, after work if need be. Americans have been fucked over left and right for countless decades and so far they’ve been a champ and took the fucking like the sheep they are.
How to I propose you do that? By going out every day to protest? If you can’t do without your job, then do it before and or after your job. Do your job while wearing a protest sign if you can. There are hundreds of ways, and yes, they will inconvenience you, and I’m sorry about that, I’m sure jews back in Poland 1939 surely also were very inconvenienced by all that was happening.
The nokings protests, until today, have done nothing of visible value. If it built support networks, then wow, awesome, could have used those years and years ago, but better something than nothing. Now that you have those networks, what are you going to do with them, besides more “nothing”?
You call me smug, I call you an American who needs to get off his ass and do something and stop looking at the rest of the world for a saviour
They invade britain, and some euro countries, and kill the kings there. At least that’s what the name sounds like.
