More than 3,100 anti-authoritarian protests are scheduled across the US and at least 15 other countries on Saturday. All these events will take place under a single banner: No Kings.

Formally launched in June to fight back against Trump administration policies, the No Kings movement has grown with astonishing speed – its second and most recent mass protest in October drew an estimated 7 million participants. Organizers expect Saturday’s events to be the biggest protest in American history.

But the movement is also leaderless, broad in cause and hasn’t advanced any policy demands. Some social movements experts recognize No Kings’ momentum but question if it needs clearer goals.

“There’s not any one way to get people into a movement. You want to have as many doors open as possible because you have to reach people wherever they are,” said Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the co-author of Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. “The bigger challenge is, once they’re there, how do you keep them there, and then how do you channel that engagement in collective ways?”

But organizers say they are aware of such critiques and that these choices are all by design.

“The name No Kings is, in and of itself, a demand. It is a direct repudiation of this administration, of this regime, of its unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and frankly profane actions,” said Hunter Dunn, an organizer with the 50501 movement, one of the groups behind No Kings. “It’s a declaration of intent that we are going to return power back to the people.”

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    So fuck what you think. Way to go Sherlock.

    That’s a hell of a long reply for “fuck what you think”, Sherlock. I stand by what I said. No one who organizes protests spends as much time throwing words of discouragement at them as you do.

    I simply don’t believe you.

    And if you had not posted so many, I would not have found myself replying to three of them. In other words, it’s not because you’re special; it’s because your bullshit is prolific.

    If you don’t want people to point out your bullshit, stop posting it.

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      17 hours ago

      Like I give a shit to prove anything to a stranger online. Have fun having my posts live rent free in your head. Loser

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        17 hours ago

        But you do. You care enough to reply at length, sending what I am absolutely sure is your very best. “Loser” lol. It’s all you have. :D