CHESTERTOWN — An estimated 300 to 400 people attended the third iteration of a No Kings rally in Chestertown on Saturday, March 28, while similar events were staged in thousands of locales nationwide.
These protests targeted President Trump’s second-term policies, particularly immigration enforcement, the war in Iran and concerns regarding authoritarianism and the trampling of civil liberties.
The Kent County Democratic Central Committee sponsored the local rally titled “No Kings/Liberty and Justice for All.”
It lasted about an hour and a half, beginning at 1 p.m. in Fountain Park with several speakers and concluding with attendees lining nearby Washington Avenue waving posters at passing motorists.
The rally was publicized as a peaceful, nonpartisan assembly.
That was pretty much how it played out.
“Our intended message was that political activism can be peaceful, respectful and meaningful,” Regina Oliver, one of the event organizers, told The Evening Enterprise in an email.
“We offered messages and songs of hope,” she said. “We are concerned about what to do — our opinion is that the current men and women in power are not serving the Constitution, do not care about the impact their decisions have on the people in this country and that the last line of our pledge of allegiance remains unfulfilled, ’Liberty and justice for all.’”
— Photos by Trish McGee
