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Diana Ramirez-Simon
Police in Hawaii have decided {that a} bomb risk on the state capitol grounds in Honolulu is “no risk to the general public”.
Honolulu police introduced in a social media publish that each one roadways have been reopened and the deliberate No Kings protest has been moved again to the capitol.
Native information reported that police, with state sheriffs aiding, had evacuated the capitol and closed off 4 streets close by. A police information launch shortly earlier than 10am introduced that the protest can be moved to the Iolani Palace grounds whereas the validity of the bomb risk might be decided.
Honolulu police referred to as in Okay-9 and particular providers items to assist examine the bomb risk.
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A number of thousand folks took to the streets Saturday throughout metro Atlanta, from the center of the state’s capitol within the coronary heart of Georgia’s liberal politics all the way in which to Woodstock, a redoubt of red-state Republicanism. Greater than 50 places throughout the state staged No Kings rallies, with about 10,000 folks attending protests in Atlanta and suburban areas similar to Tucker.
“I’ve been protesting at each protest that comes round,” mentioned Kevon Watson of Tucker. He’s seen a political shift away from Trump in his group during the last 12 months, however is stunned the occasions of the final 12 months haven’t had an excellent stronger impression. “I hoped the Epstein information launch would do this, and it looks like the general public that I discuss to essentially don’t take note of the information. They’re simply getting all of it on TikTok or YouTube or no matter, and it’s like an echo chamber, so they only type of get reinforcement messaging about how good issues are going.”
Protesters in Atlanta marched about three-quarters of a mile down Memorial Drive to the state capitol. Forward of that march, Rev Raphael Warnock, a US senator, addressed the group.
“They made ICE larger than the Marines,” he mentioned. “They made ICE larger than all the opposite federal legislation enforcement entities mixed … I’m afraid {that a} wannabe king who’s busy constructing himself and his billionaires a ballroom intends to make use of ICE as his personal personal military to do his bidding to make him king. However he’s not a king. That is our land. This belongs to we the folks. And these powers that he arrogates to himself, these buildings that he tries to place his identify on: these items no extra belong to him than that faux Nobel peace prize that he had someone to offer him.”
By historic requirements, protests in Atlanta have remained huge. The latest aspect has been their progress outward into the suburbs and into extra conservative communities.
A bunch of about 500 folks rallied on the road close to the town inexperienced in Sandy Springs, a comparatively prosperous northern suburb of Atlanta. In a state of deep purple and brilliant blue districts, the realm round Sandy Springs splits near 50-50 by political social gathering.
“A lot of my neighbors share my views, and lots of don’t,” mentioned Kathleen Meitzel, a Sandy Springs resident. “Many who haven’t up to now abruptly do, as a result of the person is so unpopular and so harmful. Everybody is actually starting to see it in the event that they haven’t already.”
Jenna Pratt of Cumming held an indication that mentioned “No Kings Besides Aragorn” referring to the Tolkien novels.
“I feel it’s exhausting to vary minds if you happen to’re simply having conversations,” she mentioned. “I feel it needs to be the way in which we stay collectively, the way in which we love one another. It needs to be every day. It’s the person small actions that change folks over time, however I feel the opposite a part of it’s that folks need to need to change from the within.”
Jenna Pratt at a No Kings rally in Sandy Springs. {Photograph}: George Chidi/The GuardianShare
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1000’s have taken to the streets throughout California as No Kings protests proceed in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Golden state has been within the Trump administration’s crosshairs, with Democratic leaders within the state pushing again in opposition to the president together with by advocating for the state to redraw its congressional map.
Folks march on Market St to Civic Heart Plaza throughout a protest in San Francisco. {Photograph}: Yalonda M James/APDemonstrators in Los Angeles, California. {Photograph}: Ringo Chiu/ReutersCalifornia Lecturers Affiliation at a No Kings protest in Los Angeles. {Photograph}: Jill Connelly/APFormer costume designer Miguel Guiterrez Ramsey dons a king outfit in San Francisco. {Photograph}: Yalonda M James/APShare
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Legislation enforcement officers have evacuated the Hawaii state capitol as a consequence of a doable bomb risk hours earlier than a No Kings occasion was scheduled to happen on the constructing.
Native media reported that the evacuation occurred simply earlier than 10am native time, and that protest members have been relocated to the ʻIolani Palace grounds.
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From Chicago, my colleague Amy Qin stories:
It’s 4pm and the group is beginning to skinny out however a whole lot are nonetheless marching by means of the streets of downtown Chicago because the afternoon mild begins to solid dramatic shadows from the adjoining skyscrapers.
In a sea of do-it-yourself indicators, some protesters are additionally waving dozens of flags representing Palestine, Eire, Mexico and Lebanon. “Fingers off Gaza now” and “Finish the struggle and deportation” chant a gaggle of protesters waving Palestinian flags.
Demonstrators attend a No Kings day protest in Chicago. {Photograph}: Amy Qin/The Guardian
A brass band from LaSalle Avenue church is posted on the sidewalk taking part in a jazzed up rendition of This Little Gentle of Mine in opposition to the roar of Chicago’s “El” practice system above and folks shouting from their flats a number of tales up.
I talked to Karime Sepulveda, 25, about what introduced her out to protest at this time.
“I feel for me probably the most private challenge is immigration,” Sepulveda mentioned. “I’m the product of two immigrants who got here right here to offer me a greater life.”
For a lot of demonstrators, the inflow of ICE and border patrol brokers in Chicago final fall throughout “Operation Halfway Blitz” remains to be contemporary of their minds. Federal brokers made hundreds of arrests, deployed an unprecedented quantity of teargas and chemical irritants on protesters, and fatally shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez and Marimar Martinez.
Demonstrators attend a No Kings day protest in Chicago. {Photograph}: Amy Qin/The GuardianShare
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Proud Boys chief amongst No Kings counter-protesters
As protesters take to the streets to denounce the Trump administration throughout No Kings marches at this time, counter-protesters have organized occasions in assist of the president in a handful of cities as effectively.
In West Palm Seashore, Florida, about 50 Trump supporters verbally clashed with No Kings protesters. CNN reported “some got here with mics and flashed ‘Proud Boys’ caps, T-shirts and flags. Cops have been seen deescalating the scenario.”
In the meantime, in Dallas, Trump supporters triggered a “main disruption” to the No Kings protest, in line with the native Fox station, which added: “Stuart Rhodes, the founding father of Oath, and Enrique Tarrio, chief of the Proud Boys, are on the protest.” Each males have been convicted for his or her roles within the January sixth riot on the US Capitol and have been subsequently pardoned by Trump.
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The wave of No Kings demonstrations is sweeping westward as protesters hit the streets in Texas, Colorado, California and Oregon.
Right here’s a collection of photographs from the marches occuring throughout the western United States:
A drone view reveals folks attending a “No Kings” protest in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration insurance policies, in Denver, Colorado, U.S. March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Cheney Orr/ReutersDemonstrators participate within the No Kings Houston Protest, TX on March 28, 2026 in Houston, Texas. {Photograph}: Marcus Ingram/Getty Photos for Girls’s MarchFolks rally on the Dallas Metropolis Corridor Plaza in protest in opposition to the Trump administration throughout a “No Kings” demonstration on March 28, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. {Photograph}: Brandon Bell/Getty PhotosDemonstrators collect for the “No Kings” rally in Oakland, Calif. on Saturday, March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Brontë Wittpenn/APDemonstrators march throughout a “No Kings” protest in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration insurance policies, in Portland, Oregon, March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: John Rudoff/ReutersShare
Fabiola Cineas
As one in every of Washington DC’s No Kings marches wound down on the Southwest Waterfront, protesters mentioned they need the nation to do not forget that DC was the “guinea pig”.
“Donald Tump unleashed this on Washington DC first,” Ama’d, 27, mentioned as a gaggle of nationwide guard members stood a couple of ft away. “We’d like the remainder of the nation to know that we’re being over-policed in our communities.”
Ama’d, an activist and music artist, helped design protest music that he carried out on a float. “Nobody man ought to have all that energy! We’d like our rights again! We’re taking again ours,” one musician rapped as crowds of protesters chanted, “Free DC! Free DC!”
Free DC Activists begin the march throughout the Fredrick Douglas Memorial Bridge on March 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. {Photograph}: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photos
As protesters made their technique to the Waterfront metro station, organizers distributed flyers for future protests, together with a each day “Fingers Off the Arts” protest to “maintain the Kennedy Heart open” and “save jobs,” organizers instructed the Guardian.
For a 1 Could protest, activists are demanding a day of “No work. No College. No buying,” one other flyer states.
Activists march throughout the Fredrick Douglas Memorial Bridge on March 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. {Photograph}: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photos
“A part of what we are attempting to do is be in solidarity with different teams and actions which can be being attacked and one in every of them is the labor unions and dealing folks right here in DC,” mentioned Nachama Wilker, 64, a volunteer with Free DC, the native group advocating for DC house rule and DC statehood. “The Could motion is in solidarity with all of those labor organizations as Trump guts union jobs in DC.”
Wilker added, “Folks come out to those huge rallies, they usually don’t know the right way to plug in after the rally. That’s a giant cause why I’m handing out these flyers.”
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Rachel Leingang
Jane Fonda, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers are closing out the day’s audio system in St Paul.
“This isn’t the America I used to be instructed existed,” Fonda mentioned. “I used to be instructed we’re the folks.”
Rogers praised Minnesotans for his or her resilience, saying it was inspiring. “A lot love within the face of evil,” she mentioned.
Baez praised Minnesota’a resistance, saying “thanks, Minneapolis”.
Then, Baez and Rogers ended the rally by singing The Instances They Are A-Altering.
Singers Joan Baez, left, and Maggie Rogers carry out throughout an “Artists United for our Freedoms” rally close to the Kennedy Heart, on Friday, 27 March 2026, in Washington. {Photograph}: Jacquelyn Martin/APShare
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As No Kings protests start to wrap up on the east coast, they’re simply getting began in California.
Right here’s a glimpse of the demonstrations underneath method in San Francisco and Los Angeles:
Demonstrators collect initially of a “No Kings” protest on March 28, 2026 in San Francisco, California. {Photograph}: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty PhotosBalloons depicting President Donald Trump float amongst demonstrators and indicators at a “No Kings” protest on March 28, 2026 in San Francisco, California. {Photograph}: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty PhotosDemonstrators put on local weather change-related indicators at a “No Kings” protest on March 28, 2026 in San Francisco, California. {Photograph}: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty PhotosProtestors collect in entrance of Los Angeles Metropolis Corridor through the “No Kings” nationwide day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
Lex McMenamin
The a number of No Kings contingents in Manhattan merged by means of Instances Sq., constantly flanked by photographers. Households carried LGBTQ+ satisfaction flags and Palestinian flags, whereas older marchers held pun-heavy protest indicators, and others handed out whistles. Throughout age teams and race – although the group did general lean white and older, it was under no circumstances homogenous – the constant themes have been anti-ICE, pro-LGBTQ+, and, clearly, anti-Trump.
Demonstrators maintain placards as they attend a No Kings protest. {Photograph}: Jeenah Moon/ReutersDemonstrators at a No Kings protest in New York Metropolis. {Photograph}: Lex McMenamin/The Guardian
However maybe probably the most constant theme was anti-war. A number of indicators related the Epstein information to the Trump administration’s determination to focus on Iran and spend immense quantities of funding on warfare. “This struggle has to cease,” mentioned MB, 55, who got here in from Queens to protest. “American folks are not looking for what this administration is doing. We don’t need it. We’d like healthcare, we’d like jobs. We’d like infrastructure.”
A demonstrator holds an indication. {Photograph}: Jeenah Moon/ReutersDemonstrators at a No Kings protest in New York Metropolis. {Photograph}: Lex McMenamin/The Guardian
The entrance of the march reached the dispersal level at Madison Sq. Backyard by 3:30 native time, and greater than an hour later, protesters nonetheless streamed by means of the closed intersection. Leftist organizing teams and political events arrange store to peel protesters off as they walked to the subway, flyering for future actions and methods to get entangled of their work.
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Rachel Leingang
Organizers in Minnesota estimate no less than 200,000 are on the primary march on the state capitol in St. Paul.
The gang stretches again additional than I can see in a number of instructions.
“Fuck ICE” and “ICE OUT” indicators and pins are a frequent web site, an indicator of how a lot the federal authorities’s incursion into the state left a mark on its folks.
Demonstrators attend a “No Kings” protest in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration insurance policies, in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Tim Evans/Reuters
Audio system on the stage talked about how they and their organizations responded on the bottom to their neighbors’ wants through the surge.
Bernie Sanders riled up the group with remarks concerning the function of the extremely wealthy in politics.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks behind a glass throughout a “No Kings” protest in opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration insurance policies, in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Tim Evans/ReutersShare
My colleage Amy Qin is constant to report stay from Chicago, the place a various slate of audio system, together with religion leaders and authorized advocates, have addressed a crowd gathered at Butler Subject in Grant Park:
The loudest cheers got here when two pupil protest leaders got here on stage, together with Leah Sophia Lopez, a pupil at Social Justice Excessive College in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, a predominately Latino neighborhood that was a frequent goal of Trump’s immigration enforcement marketing campaign final fall.
“My fellow People: youngsters are being put into cages whereas our authorities funds struggle and genocides,” mentioned Lopez, who led a whole lot of scholars in a faculty stroll out protesting ICE final 12 months. “America is constructed off of protest, immigrants, slaves, we constructed this county.”
Demonstrators collect at a No Kings protest in Chicago on March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Amy Qin/The Guardian
Illinois lieutenant governor Juliana Stratton closed out the rally to thunderous cheers from the group. “We got here right here to make it clear that we’ll by no means bow to a king,” she mentioned. “Illinois will rise up and struggle again like we at all times do.”
Demonstrators collect at a No Kings protest in Chicago on March 28, 2026. {Photograph}: Amy Qin/The GuardianShare
Fabiola Cineas
1000’s of protesters are rallying throughout the Washington, DC area as No Kings protests unfold throughout the nation’s capital.
One protest group, made up of a couple of dozen Palestinian moms, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and waved a large 10-foot-tall Palestinian flag. One of many moms, activist Hazami Barmada, 42, mentioned she was protesting to attract consideration to “Israel’s atrocities in opposition to the Palestinian folks.”
“Most People don’t know that our tax {dollars} are getting used to subsidize violence,” Barmada mentioned. “That is occurring whereas many People can’t afford housing, milk, college, or healthcare. Costs proceed to go up as we’re preventing Israel’s wars.”
Demonstrators collect on the No Kings protest in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Fabiola Cineas/The Guardian
Different protesters, led by native activist organizations together with Free DC, gathered on the Frederick Douglass Bridge in southeast Washington, DC. The gang marched throughout the bridge to Fort McNair in Southwest DC the place White Home senior advisor Stephen Miller resides. The protest’s organizers say Miller is “operating the trouble to take over DC.”
Activists march throughout the Fredrick Douglas Memorial Bridge on March 28, 2026 in Washington, DC. {Photograph}: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Photos
Protesters instructed the Guardian they wished to attract consideration to the occupation of Washington, DC. In August, President Trump issued an government order that put the federal authorities in control of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Division. Trump used an extra government order to deployed greater than 2,000 members of the Nationwide Guard to the nation’s capital. Trump mentioned the Guard members have been mobilized to struggle crime, although violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low.
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