Boston ‘No Kings’ protest draws tens of thousands to oppose Trump
Organizers expected more than 100,000 people to participate in a "No Kings" protest Saturday in Boston.
With a stated goal of protesting corruption and authoritarianism in the Trump administration, tens of thousands of demonstrators had already gathered by noon, according to WCVB-TV in Boston. The rally was scheduled from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Held on Boston Common, the protest was organized by the ACLU of Massachusetts, Indivisible Mass Coalition, and Mass 50501, the same groups that staged a similar "No Kings" rally in Boston in October.
Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans such as, "No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA," according to The Boston Globe .
Gov. Maura Healey tied the Saturday rally to the state's Revolutionary War history.
"The bottom line here is that, for 250 years, we haven't had kings in Massachusetts, and we're not going backwards," she said, according to NBC-10 in Boston .
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell addressed the crowd, touting her record of opposing ICE and other Trump administration policies, according to the Globe.
"We have filed 53 lawsuits against this Trump administration," Campbell said. "We certainly will overcome this administration like we've done any in the past that have sought to harm us and dismantle the values we care about."
Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the Milford high school student who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year , also addressed the crowd, NBC-10 reported .
"Power doesn't always announce itself as a king. Sometimes it shows up as fear. Sometimes as silence. Sometimes as people being too afraid to speak," he said, according to the station.
Others expected to speak included U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-7th District.
MassLive Politics Editor John L. Micek contributed additional reporting.
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