No Kings Day Protests October 18 To Sweep The Globe
By Mark Gruenberg Photos: Facebook WASHINGTON—From San Francisco to Sao Paulo, from Sequim, Wash.,, to Rome, Italy and from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Anchorage, Alaska, to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a second and bigger round of “No Kings Day” marches, speeches and protests against the dictatorial regime of Donald Trump will sweep the globe on October 18. And Republicans are freaking out about them. Their slander about the mass, peaceful protesters includes calling them “terrorists,” “antifa,” and “radical, small and violent.” Trump describes the coming protests in D.C. in particular as a “hate America rally.” All the claims are flat-out lies.Many of the lies have been spewed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. They have been rebuked by, among others, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., a long and strong supporter of workers. He first backed massive national protests against the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.“It’s a rally of millions of people all over this country who believe in our Constitution, who believe in American freedom and are not going to let you and Donald Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society,” Sanders said.With big backing from the AFL-CIO and its member unions—plus the Teamsters, though they’re not an official endorser—millions of people plan to march in the streets to denounce Trump’s autocracy, his viciousness, his agenda against workers, and his policies both in the U.S. and abroad….READ MORE
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WASHINGTON—From San Francisco to Sao Paulo, from Sequim, Wash.,, to Rome, Italy and from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Anchorage, Alaska, to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a second and bigger round of “No Kings Day” marches, speeches and protests against the dictatorial regime of Donald Trump will sweep the globe on October 18.
And Republicans are freaking out about them. Their slander about the mass, peaceful protesters includes calling them “terrorists,” “antifa,” and “radical, small and violent.” Trump describes the coming protests in D.C. in particular as a “hate America rally.” All the claims are flat-out lies.
Many of the lies have been spewed by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn. They have been rebuked by, among others, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., a long and strong supporter of workers. He first backed massive national protests against the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.
“It’s a rally of millions of people all over this country who believe in our Constitution, who believe in American freedom and are not going to let you and Donald Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society,” Sanders said.
With big backing from the AFL-CIO and its member unions—plus the Teamsters, though they’re not an official endorser—millions of people plan to march in the streets to denounce Trump’s autocracy, his viciousness, his agenda against workers, and his policies both in the U.S. and abroad….READ MORE
