OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – An estimated 10,000 demonstrators filled streets and plazas in downtown Oakland on Sunday, joining a nationwide “No Kings” day of action aimed at President Donald Trump’s second-term policies and what organizers called “abuse of power,” the organizers of the event told the Bay Area Telegraph.
The East Bay rally—one of more than 2,000 events held across the country—featured two stages, first at Wilma Chan Park and later at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Marchers carried signs opposing expanded deportations and proposed Medicaid cuts as a drum corps led the crowd along 14th Street.
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, Councilmembers Charlene Wang and Carroll Fife, Assemblymember Mia Bonta and Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas were among local officials on stage. Representatives from the ACLU of Northern California, SEIU and Planned Parenthood also spoke, the organizers said.
A coalition of more than 30 Bay Area groups—including Indivisible chapters, the Alameda Labor Council, Kehilla Community Synagogue and SURJ—co-sponsored the event.
Not all local residents are in favor of such protests. Conservatives around the Bay Area have shared their own perspectives on similar issues with the Bay Area Telegraph.
There do not appear to have been any arrests associated with the protests.
