Pittsburgh saw thousands of people take to the streets on Saturday as part of a No Kings day of action, the third such event in a nationwide resistance movement against what organizers and participants deem an increasingly authoritarian government.
Indivisible Pittsburgh, a branch of the larger Indivisible group that organized the first “day of defiance” last June, organized the Pittsburgh demonstration in partnership with several other community groups, including 1Hood Power, Casa San José and Indivisible: Black Neighborhoods United, according to the group’s social media.
SLIDESHOW: No Kings rally attendees started at the City-County Building and marched down Grant Street to Mellon Square through downtown Pittsburgh on March 28. Mayor Corey O’Connor said the crowd estimates were 15,000 to 20,000 people. (Photos by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh’s Public Source)
About a dozen other No Kings rallies were scheduled to take place in towns across the region, including McCandless, Penn Hills, Sewickley, Mt. Lebanon and points beyond including Clarion and Zelienople. Indivisible claimed numbers in the thousands locally. Pittsburgh Mayor Corey O’Connor, a Democrat, estimated the Downtown crowd at 15,000 to 20,000…