"In Lubec, Maine, the easternmost municipality of the United States, a good number of the community's 1,237 residents will gather at 11 am Saturday to deliver a message from just this side of the border with Canada that, despite what an obsessive fan of the British monarchy named Donald Trump may think, "this country does not belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants.""
"Multiple time zones away, activists from Saipan will raise a cry of protest from the Northern Marianas Islands in the western Pacific against the current administration's abuses of power, joining their voices to a national declaration that says, "The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don't have kings, and we won't back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.""
"Taking their cue from a Constitution that empowers the people of these United States to assemble and petition for the redress of grievances, Americans will also gather 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska, and 90 miles from Cuba in Key West, Florida. They'll rally in Massachusetts on the Lexington Battle Green, where the opening shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired, and just a short distance from the Civil War battlefields of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania."
Residents and activists across the United States and its territories will gather on October 18 to protest perceived presidential overreach and assert democratic norms. Events will occur from Lubec, Maine, to Saipan, Kotzebue, Key West, Lexington, Gettysburg, Polebridge, Montana, and Manhattan, uniting small towns and big cities. Participants will invoke the Constitution's rights to assemble and petition, reject monarchical and dictatorial rule, and adopt the rallying cry "No Kings!" Demonstrations will portray dissent as patriotic, challenge labeling of protesters as "unhinged" or "anti-American," and emphasize resistance to chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
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