Organizers of the “No Kings” rally, together with indivisible East Bay, estimate that greater than 10,000 individuals got here collectively in Chinatown in Oakland and marched to Frank Ogawa Plaza on Saturday 14 June to take part in one of many many protests deliberate all through the nation.
The peaceable demonstration, one of many hundreds all through the nation, was a “day of rebellion” in opposition to the sneaking authoritarianism proven by Donald Trump, and the complacent Republican managed congress that has fallen to date to manage his energy.
In Oakland, demonstrators started to collect round 11 a.m. in Wilma Chan Park at 1 p.m. and marched to Frank Ogawa Plaza, the place they gathered.
A couple of dozen audio system took the microphone to handle the gang that gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza, together with the American Rep. Lateeefah Simon, Assemble Mia Bonta, District 3 Councilor Carroll Fife, District 5 Alameda County Supervisor and former Oakland councilor Nikki Fortunato Bas, Pastor Mike Mcbride, Lawyer Dan Siegel and others.
“Protecting individuals with out an applicable course of, silence of the descent, sending our forces to civil neighborhoods. This isn’t security, this isn’t freedom. That is tyranny, in a pink cat. What will we do? We resist, however with self-discipline, with technique and with care.”
Oakland District 2 Councilor Charlene Wang
“There is no such thing as a king in a democracy. In a democracy there is no such thing as a dictator. We reject the people who find themselves king.”
Pastor Mike McBride
“We’re not going backwards, and the individuals who do have the privilege of citizenship ought to threat their our bodies to make sure that our neighbors, our households, our mates, have what they should be protected.”
Oakland District 3 Councilor Carroll Fife
“We’re coming. We’re coming with poll papers. We give you protests. We give you coverage. We give you the poetry of reality. No crowd will prevent. No worry will break us. We are going to by no means kneel to a king,” she mentioned. “We are going to present them that we are going to by no means throw trans -children below the bus. We are going to vote in 2026. We are going to present them who we’re.”
Our rep. Lateeefah Simon
“The best way the world now goes, all of the unhealthy issues that occur on our personal land, it is very important come out right here no less than, so that everybody understands that that is unacceptable.”
Lawrence
“We have now to cease arming Israel as a result of they carry out a genocide in our title, and it’s insufferable to look.”
Cynthia Papermaster
