cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31700751
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”
I don’t know how many chicago had but I joked it felt like so many the edge or it was going to meet up with the edge of suburban ones. Even people not in it were waving from buildings and cars and the cars were honking but in the kind of supportive honk way. There was one guy with a bullhorn counter protesting but the crowd chanted him down with shame. shame. shame. and well it pretty much goes on like that till you moved passed him.
I’ve seen it reported 75k to 100k attended according to organizers. CPD reported 20k lmao
I can say it took awhile before the march began and I heard the cpd was saying their was to many for the route to handle but they finally got it going (Im betting they were telling them that do they want to tell all these people they can’t march). If that number is 20k I mean…
Puts a smile on my face seeing every headline today be about the protests/turnout and no mentions of “”“violence”“” but not a single headline about how Trump’s military parade went
I just assumed that shit was actually cancelled because of the weather report a few days ago. It actually still going through but not be reported on is exactly what I was hoping for.
Nope, it happened. Just nobody cared to report on it
First major protest I couldn’t be a part of as an adult, sad I couldn’t make it out yall. Keep at it.
I went and it gave me a bit of hope.
I don’t trust protests that are encouraging activists to not talk about the genocide in Gaza.
If they’re not stringing him up along with his wannabe court of jesters, this will only encourage them to, “trigger the libs” harder.
