The first of what “No Kings” organizers expect to be more than 2,600 protest events begins in the United States and other countries, a mass mobilization against President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, education, and security that organizers say are pushing the country toward autocracy.
The protests — big and little, in cities, suburbs, and small towns across the US — follow mass demonstrations in June and reflect the frustration of opponents of an agenda that Trump has rolled out with unprecedented speed since taking office in January.
Today’s rallies started outside the US, with a couple of hundred protesters gathering outside the US embassy in London, and roughly hundreds more holding demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona.
By this morning in Northern Virginia, many protesters were walking on overpasses across roads heading into Washington, DC, and several hundred people gathered in the circle near Arlington National Cemetery, near where Trump is considering building an arch across the bridge from the Lincoln Memorial.
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