Gilda and I flew to the center of the country last week to participate in a No Kings demonstration Saturday protesting Donald Trump’s autocratic tendencies and actions.
Well, in truth, we flew to Omaha to spend a week with daughter Ellie and grandchildren Cecilia Jane and Leo.
Deep in red conservative middle America-Trumpland, Omaha is a blue dot oasis. Aside from the main protest site near the downtown, anti-Trumpers lined main thoroughfares waving signs and eliciting approving car horn blasts. In Turner Park thousands gathered to hear and cheer a slew of speakers blasting Trump’s anti-democratic actions.
Perhaps the best way to convey their themes is to quote some of their handmade placards and display some photos:
“Free the national guard”
“Hate will not make us great”
“At second Unitarian Church, we love our neighbors: immigrants, LGBTQ, of color, with disabilities, of all and any faiths”
“No faux king way”
“I’ve seen smarter cabinets at Ikea”
“Silence fuels injustice”
“Health care not wealth care”
“This is not left or right, this is right or wrong”
“Masked police are secret police”
“If you are not outraged you are not paying attention”
From three women dressed in Handmaids’ red capes and white bonnets to a gold-plated Trump-faced giant chicken, here are some of my favorite visuals:
