#no-kings-rallies

#no-kings-rallies

Roughly 30,000 people took BART to the "No Kings" rallies in the Bay Area. "Saturday saw 149,582 trips, which is 31,000 more trips than the previous Saturday-a 26 percent difference," explained BART's Michelle Robertson. "We anticipated the increase in ridership and ran a majority of 8-car trains on Saturday. We also had extra staffing at stations."

On Saturday, crowds gathered in cities across the United States to protest President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers of the No Kings rallies claim that more than 7 million people attended in all, across 2,700 cities in the Unites States and beyond. The gatherings provided a clear picture not only of how widespread the resistance to the Trump administration has become, but also the diversity of the coalition driving it. Not to mention the signs.

Bethany laughed, said that is silly, but that yes, according to the definition of it, the protestors were certainly Antifa. Obviously, if you look at the definition of it, Antifa, anti-fascist I've spoke to a couple of veterans who said that's literally what they fought against. They are anti-fascist. So I think I should be proud to say that the people out here are Antifa, Bethany said. We don't agree with the fascist government.

Saturday's rally is the third mass mobilisation since Trump's return to the White House and comes against the backdrop of a government shutdown that not only has closed federal programmes and services, but is testing the core balance of power as an aggressive executive confronts Congress and the courts in ways that organisers warn are a slide towards US authoritarianism.