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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/no-kings-rallies-saturday-october-18-
 to-bring-out-millions-of-pro-democracy-advocates-nationwide/
SUMMARY:No Kings Rallies Saturday October 18 to Bring Out Millions of Pro-D
 emocracy Advocates Nationwide
DESCRIPTION:\nSat 10/18 @1-3PM\nAnxious about the shutdown? Furious about m
 ilitary assaults on peaceful cities like Chicago and Portland? Eager to se
 e the Epstein files? You have a lot of company! Things just seem to get mo
 re appalling and unbelievable by the day with people styling themselves as
  “patriots” claiming anyone who isn’t 100% on their side is the enem
 y of America. People across the political spectrum are starting to realize
  that we are under attack from our own government\, with freedoms guarante
 ed in the First Amendment being thrown away like used tissues. It’s enou
 gh to make you throw up your hands and log out of everything.\nBut don’t
  do that! That’s what the people in charge are hoping you do. They don
 ’t want you to see that they are responsible for crashing the economy ma
 king health care inaccessible\, and in their most recent move\, stripping 
 education resources from kids with disabilities. Here in the U.S. the Cons
 titution guarantees us representative government—people whom we elect to
  work on OUR behalf. And that is failing us in the person of a president w
 ho has taken for himself the powers of a dictator or a king.\nIn June\, 
 “No Kings” rallies were held across the country\, bringing out million
 s of people to protest—and things have gotten much worse since then. So 
 now there will be another series of rallies this Saturday October 18\, and
  in light of the escalation of attacks on democracy all summer and this fa
 ll\, it’s looking like they could be much larger. A desperate Mike Johns
 on\, the hapless\, over-his-head Speaker of the House\, is saying these ev
 ents are “pro-Hamas\,” “Marxist” and “antifa\,” the former two
  vanishingly rare among the protestors\, the latter not even an actual thi
 ng.\n“NO KINGS is a peaceful national day of action and mass mobilizatio
 n in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of t
 he Trump administration\, which they have doubled down on since June\,” 
 the organizers emphasize. “They are targeting immigrant families\, profi
 ling\, arresting and detaining people without warrants\; threatening to ov
 ertake elections\; gutting health care\, environmental protections\, and e
 ducation when families need them most\; rigging maps to silence voters\; i
 gnoring mass shootings at our schools and in our communities\; and driving
  up the cost of living while handling out massive giveaways to billionaire
  allies\, as families struggle.”\nAs in June\, there will be smaller gat
 herings in suburbs and exurban areas such as Chagrin Falls\, Strongsville 
 and Parma\, all of which turned out sizable crowds in June. But the big Cl
 eveland rally will take place once again at the Free Stamp at East 9thand 
 Lakeside\, where it will be followed by a march in downtown Cleveland. Spo
 nsoring groups include the Cuyahoga Democratic Women’s Caucus\, Mobilize
  the Vote NEO\, ACLU Ohio\, the Cleveland Stonewall Dems\, the Young Black
  Dems and more joining in every day.\n“The flag doesn’t belong to Dona
 ld Trump. It belongs to us\,” they say. “We’re not watching history 
 happen. We’re making it. On October 18th\, we’re showing up everywhere
  he isn’t—to say no thrones\, no crowns\, no kings.”\nTo get more in
 formation about locations and times go here. No\, you won’t find a lot o
 f “Marxists” in the crowd — just people panicked about being able to
  afford their health insurance premiums and people furious about military-
 style attacks on peaceful cities such as Chicago where most of the violenc
 e has been caused by ICE and other federal agents.\nBring the cleverest si
 gn you can think of.\nnokings\n[mappress mapid="559"]
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