The consensus estimate of participants at the No Kings Demonstration in Santa Rosa, five to seven thousand lined Farmers Lane from Hoen Avenue north beyond Sonoma Avenue, figures based on guesses from a variety of folk from policemen to traffic coordinators to demonstrators of every ilk and issue.
A sample of American cities on June 14, 2025, lest the future history books forget, Santa Rosa’s No Kings Day make up consisted of toddlers, children of all ages, lively teens, college students, parents of growing families, grandparents, veterans from wars of the past seventy-five years. Thousands describes the landscape but overlooks the portraits and the poses of each individual that contributed to the event.
Travel with the photographer and the scribbler as the camera’s eye, the writer’s scope and the photographer’s lens, both focus on some of the Americans, Sonomans, whose presence flooded the sea of marchers and protesters…