Heading to No Kings in NYC
Share your thoughts, photos and protest experiences from your community
Just a quick note to say I won’t be publishing a regular Saturday Prompt today. Instead, I will be at the No Kings protest in New York City and will be broadcasting on Substack Live later this morning. I hope you’ll check it out.
I will be launching a thread in Chat for paid subscribers to share photos from No Kings protests in your communities. Everyone is also welcome to share their experiences here. I expect to include some of this in a post-protest piece that will likely run in the normal Monday morning slot.
The gaslighting Republicans can say that today’s 2,500-plus events across America and beyond are “Hate America” rallies. But we know the truth.
This is a day to celebrate our love of country in solidarity with other Americans. This is a day to give voice to the values, ideals and principles that have inspired Americans throughout our history. This is also a day to express our anger and rejection of a malignant White House occupant who abuses his office, trashes the Constitution, despises our democracy and continues to believe he can behave like a king. This dissent is our sacred right as Americans.
So: Be loud, be proud, be peaceful…and stay safe!
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"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis
To anyone going to a No Kings Rally. We need to get the whole crowd singing patriotic songs, like God Bless America, This Land is Your Land, and We Shall Overcome. Maybe even open it with the National Anthem. --- We love America too much to let Donald Trump destroy it!
Please spread the word and start the singing.