Two thousand show up for ‘No Kings’ protest in Waltham

A large crowd from Waltham and surrounding communities gathered on the corner of Main and Moody streets on Saturday, March 28, waving signs and American flags to protest policies of the Trump administration. “We hand-counted 2,028 participants yesterday, which is within striking distance of 3.5% of Waltham’s population,” said Elizabeth Hoffecker, a local organizer.

The protest was one of around 3,300 rallies involving an estimated 8 million attendees across all 50 states, making it potentially the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history, say organizers.

“People were expressing anger that our government, funded with our tax dollars, is waging a campaign of harm and violence on our own communities here in the US and on Iranians, with whom we have no quarrel,” Hoffecker said. “People called out the war in Iran for being illegal, waged without the consent of Congress or the consent of the American people, and done in a way that makes us all less safe, rather than more safe. There were also a lot of signs calling out the staggering, blatant corruption of the Trump administration and the way Trump and his people flagrantly flout the law and the Constitution. Attendees wanted the world to know that we do not support this Government’s actions abroad, nor do we support its lawlessness and undermining of democracy at home.”