No Kings Thread
When I told my taxi driver I was in Dublin to go to a No Kings rally at the American Embassy, we had quite the chat. He came from a big Republican family, he explained, before he went on to catalogue how many of his relatives had been shot during the Easter Rising in 1916 and at which of the locations we were driving by.
No Kings rings a bit different here in Dublin.
According to the organizer, we had about 400 people — 100 more than they had in the summer — representing almost every state. Some of us live here, some just showed up to protest in the middle of vacations of varying lengths.
We were right on a main road, with lots of people honking in solidarity.
We had maybe 6 frogs, one dancing dinosaur, and one chicken over the course of the protest, including a frog from Portland.
There were Epstein signs and LGBTQ flags and one Good Trouble sign and some fancy artwork.
The signs that really got me were held by kids, like these siblings who scolded, “Masked warrantless ICE agents are not American” and demanded, “stop holding back my future.”
Another sign read, in Irish, “Freedom for Palestine, Freedom for America.”
I’m used to seeing the Gaelige used to support Palestine. I had not seen the US lumped in alongside before.
I posted a few more pictures in this thread.
Over a century after Ireland itself declared No Kings once and for all, this was safe and easy. May your No Kings rally today be as safe!
Tell us about it in the thread.
breaking out my arts & crafts supplies to make small signs for my stuffed dino. weather is not cooperating – 100% rain, so signs will likely be short-lived…
great reporting from Dublin, marcy!
It threatened to seriously rain but we only ever got a few drips.
We have an embarrassment of riches in terms of protest sites in the Seattle area, so I’m going to one in my neighborhood instead of the giant one st Seattle Center. My sign is tentatively “This land is our land/No kings”, but I have only mocked it up so far. Afterwards, we’ll go press some apple cider with friends.
Weather is supposed to be relatively dry until about 2, then the buckets start.