As organizers prepare for the third major iteration of Providence’s No Kings Day rally scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday, organizers expect up to 50,000 Rhode Islanders to come out and protest on the State House lawn and throughout the capital city.
Providence’s first No Kings rally in June drew a crowd of around 3,000 to protest against the Trump administration. The second demonstration on the State House lawn in mid-October drew over 30,000, according to organizers, although that count was not verified independently.
“There’s a really good chance this could be a big one — we were very surprised with how many people we got the last time,” Jody McPhillips, an organizer for the Rhode Island Resistance Coalition, said in an interview. “And things certainly haven’t really improved since then.”…