Festival atmosphere prevails as Salem protesters stand against Trump
For the third time in a year, Salemites on Saturday, March 28, massed in protest of their president and his policies in a No Kings demonstration.
They gathered at the usual spot, lining both sides of Northeast Center Street where Summer Street intersects, north of the Capitol.
With a fluid crowd, estimating numbers was a challenge but easily thousands showed up to wave signs, absorb street music and listen to remarks from some of Oregon’s…
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Thanks for the great coverage of Saturday’s rally!
I appreciated the extensive coverage of Salem’s No Kings event. Thousands of my neighbors rose to confront the corruption and death agenda of the present administration. Don’t know if the country will survive this admin without impeachment. But, oh yeah, the Repubs have neither conscience not courage.
Patriotic Americans in the millions supporting our Constitutional Republic.
Beautiful!
I was glad to hear that people are rising up in protests all over the country. It was well-deserved and much overdue.
Thanks for your excellent coverage of this event. So many issues/themes noted on the signs….in unified protest!
What a waste of time as usual many people do not know the facts. I’m so glad we have a President now that isn’t a walking zombie who let millions of illegal aliens into our country for four years.
Amen
Were there any protests in Eastern Oregon? If not, I guess that’s why the governor, two senators , and others stayed where the money is in Western Oregon
No Kings protests held in Enterprise, LaGrande, Redmond, Oregon. The anger at the current administration is widespread across the state, the nation, and the world.
I also want to add that there were protests in Baker, Hermiston, Pendleton, Ontario, and Burns in addition to LaGrande and Redmond.
Wonderful coverage! And, yes, there were people demonstrating for immigrant rights, believing that it is not a criminal act to be an immigrant applying for immigrant status to the United States. Trump wants us to believe that these immigrants pose a great existential threat to our country by his constant and empty attacks on them. Luckily, increasing numbers of citizens see through this harmful rhetoric that is not only dangerous to immigrants’ well-being, but also not very healthy for our practice of democracy and human rights inside this country.
In a recent Common Dreams article, John Marks, a retired Army Veteran and a Ph. D. in biomedical research, explained why the so-called ICE Detention Centers are so dangerous to the soul of this country. He points out that about 3,000 persons a month are going into these Detention Camps around the country, and that 92% of these persons have no criminal record. He goes on to say that there is but small trickle exiting the Centers, indicating that these Centers are now evolving into large Holding Camps with sinister implications for their further evolution. He basis this on historical data, some of it relating to the early camps in Germany which also had a similar structure, eventually evolving into the moral obscenity we call the Holocaust. His point is not rhetorical. It is fact based.
Below, I provide a link to the Common Dreams article to allow you, Dear Reader, to read his analysis personally.
LINK:
> LINK (Common Cause article by Marks): https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-mass-detention-system