Next ‘No Kings’ march on the horizon with flagship event in the Twin Cities
The national “No Kings” protest, which has come to symbolize resistance to the Trump administration, returns on March 28, this time with a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Organizers with Indivisible, the grassroots group behind No Kings, said it was only appropriate to hold a marquee march in Minnesota in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti by immigration agents Saturday and the shooting death of Renee Good a few weeks earlier. Further protests are again expected across the country.
Minnesota has become ground zero in the fight between the left and the White House, which sent the largest-ever immigration enforcement deployment to the state, with 3,000 agents.
Since President Donald Trump returned to office a year ago, Indivisible has organized actions nationwide, and each march has grown in size from the last. Indivisible estimates that 7 million people marched in No Kings rallies across the country in October.
“No Kings 3 is very clearly about the secret police who are terrorizing Americans and killing some of them,” Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said in an interview.
Levin said that since Pretti’s death, he has seen an influx of people coming forward and asking what they can do to show their support.
On Monday, Indivisible hosted an online training session on how to peacefully and legally surveil immigration agents, and it attracted 200,000 viewers, the organization said. He announced that additional nationwide training sessions would take place, with the next taking place on February 5.
“It’s an order of magnitude greater than any training we’ve ever done before,” Levin said. “And it’s this interesting period where we see the most inhumane and sadistic things coming out of this regime. And at the same time, there’s just a massive display of beautiful humanity.”
The administration is facing fierce public backlash following its actions Saturday with Pretti. Top Trump officials were quick to label him a “domestic terrorist” and said he intended to do massive harm to federal agents. Videos and witness testimony contradicted the administration’s narrative.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is now under scrutiny, with two Republican lawmakers calling for her firing. Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino has already been sidelined. Bovino arrived in Minnesota empowered by the administration, although he was reprimanded by federal judges in Chicago for his agents’ tactics — and his own.
“Undeniably, Trump is weaker now than before, and also the weaker authoritarians who understand that they are about to lose power are going on a rampage and doing a lot more damage,” Levin said. “The only thing that can fight against this is a non-violent, massive and organized popular power which must develop. »
