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No Kings Rallies
Millions march in US, Europe to demand end to war on Iran
Millions took to the streets across the United States as well as Europe and Israel on Saturday to protest an ongoing war on Iran as the US-Israeli aggression entered its second month.
In the US, Large crowds chanted slogans against the war on Iran and President Donald Trump’s actions in more than 3,100 “No Kings” rallies in New York City, Washington DC, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas, Denver and elsewhere
Although organizers do not yet have an exact count of how many people attended, it’s clear that hundreds of thousands of people turned out at rallies in New York City, Washington DC, Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, Nashville, Dallas, Denver and elsewhere.
At the flagship protest in St Paul, Minnesota, tens of thousands filled the streets around the state capitol to commiserate, mourn and speak out again the Trump administration.
The most consistent theme was anti-war. Multiple signs connected the Epstein files to the Trump administration’s decision to target Iran and spend immense amounts of funding on warfare. “This war has to stop,” said MB, 55, who came in from Queens to protest in Manhattan.
US organizers expected 9 million participants Saturday. Police arrested a number of protesters in several cities.
Demonstrations were also held in more than a dozen other countries.
In Rome, thousands marched waving banners protesting Israeli and US attacks on Iran.
In London, demonstrators held banners with slogans such as “Stop the far right” and waved Iranian flags.
And in Paris, several hundred people, mostly Americans living in France, along with labor unions and human rights organizations, gathered at the Bastille.
“I protest all of Trump’s illegal, immoral, reckless and feckless, endless wars,” organizer Ada Shen said.
Security forces arrested 21 demonstrators in Tel Aviv and Haifa Saturday night while forcibly dispersing protests against the US-Israeli war with Iran.
The wave of protests was the largest since the outbreak of war on Iran in late February.