Hours before Donald Trump Meach in Washington on the day of your 79 birthday he First big military parade since 1991 That the capital sees, hundreds of thousands of Americans, or millions, anticipates that they will take to the streets this Saturday in large cities, small cities and towns throughout the country to protest against the Authoritarian derives of the Republican.
From coast to thing, organizing groups of what they have baptized as a “National Challenge Day” They already count near 2,000 manifestations. In New York alone, between 50,000 and 100,000 people is expected. The Los Angeles Police Chief has anticipated “perhaps unprecedented crowds” in the city, where Trump has deployed National Guard and Marines. And everyone will meet under a common idea: “Kings no ”.
It is the motto that has given the relief to “Hands out” that the same groups launched in April in demonstrations that managed to get more than three million Americans to the streets that then exhibited their rejection of Trump and who at that time was his friend and ally and “special employee” of his government: Elon Musk.
Interest shot by Los Angeles
This day has been taking place since the president announced the celebration in his own onomastics of the military parade to mark the 250 anniversary of the birth of the army, But the organizers have proven that the interest in participating has shot himself in the last week, after Trump, jumping to the state authorities, authorized the military deployment in Los Angeles in response to protests against their aggressive immigrant arrest operations. That split screen with an image of military power in the capital and troops acting in a city in the United States has multiplied the shivers.
Although on Thursday a judge declared illegal both the deployment and federalization of the reservists, an appeals court allowed us to move forward at least one view on Tuesday. The magistrate, however, left a very hard sentence with Trump’s actions and repeatedly emphasized that he exercises the authority of a president, not of a king, and that the role arrives with limitations. “This is the difference between a constitutional government and the king George, “Judge Charles Breyer wrote, who recalled that the US” was founded in response to a monarch. “
The organizers of the demonstrations also see the Republican exceeding their functions, and the criticisms of those excesses of their administration are reflected on the website of the protests, which allows to inform themselves of calls, propose the organization of others and prepare for participation. “They have Challenged to the Courts, deportee To Americans, missing people of the streets, Civil rights attacked y trimmed the services“, Reads.” Corruption has gone too far. Thrones, no. Crowns no. Kings no ”.
Ezra Levin, founder of the indivisible group, one of the organizers, used a few days ago in ‘The Guardian’ the simile of demonstrations with the work of a muscle and in that comparison this Saturday is like an intense exercise session. “We suddenly save democracy this Saturday? No. Does Trump resign suddenly on Saturday? No. It’s not how it works,” he explained. “It is a tactic of a long -term strategy to safeguard democracy United States”.
Tension and fear
The only place where the organizers of “Reyes no” have avoided having a presence is precisely DC, the scene of the military parade, although there are other groups that have organized protests in the capital, in whose skies there will be aircraft, helicopters, fireworks and drones security and whose streets will travel dozens of tanks, armored ones and combat vehicles as well as 6,000 soldiers.
It is an absence that had been decided before Trump threatened this week with which any protest against the parade “It will be replicated with forcefulness.”
Although the organizers of the national marches call the peaceful protest, las tensions They are palpable, more when in the White House there is a leader who focuses his warnings on threats on what he calls “internal enemy ” and that tries to exhibit hard hand and military power.
In states governed by Republicans as Florida o Texas (where the governor has deployed the National Guard as Trump has done in Los Angeles) a strong response has been promised before any incident. And a Florida sheriff has come to threaten Kill who is violent with the police.
