GROSSE POINTES/DETROIT — Over 1,000 people are estimated to have taken part in a No Kings demonstration on both sides of Mack Avenue around Cadieux Road Oct. 18 — well over the 200 to 300 organizers said they had been expecting.
Hosted by the Eastside Alliance Indivisible and Grosse Pointe Harper Woods Democracy Coalition, the No Kings protest was organized to show opposition to what protesters say is the increasingly authoritarian nature of President Donald Trump’s policies and those of his administration.
“No Kings Day is a celebration of people power,” Dana Saxon, a lead organizer with Eastside Alliance Indivisible, said in a press release. “It’s a reminder that democracy doesn’t belong to kings, corporations, or autocrats — it belongs to us.”…