Overview

• More than five million people joined thousands of largely peaceful ‘No Kings’ demonstrations in the United States, Canada and other countries.
• The rallies coincided with the president’s 79th birthday and a 250th U.S. Army anniversary military parade in Washington, which protesters decried as a show of executive might.
• Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union and the nonprofit 50501 organized the protests, drawing on an estimated $2.1 billion in annual revenue from dark-money groups to fund logistics and publicity.
• High-profile participants including Mark Ruffalo, Kerry Washington, Jimmy Kimmel and Julia Louis-Dreyfus joined marches in Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, carrying American flags and satirical signs.
• Despite widespread peaceful turnout, a shooting in Salt Lake City critically injured one person and led to several arrests.