WE THE PEOPLE, TOGETHER, HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Let’s show our unity & strength throughout the county by showing up in multiple locations. We hope you’ll be inspired to continue to do the work to transform our country by signing up for future activities in our county.
Additional Details & Suggestions
**SIGN MAKING PARTY – Join us for a Sign Making Party at our Jeff Dems Office in Jefferson 12pm to 3pm Saturday October 11. R.S.V.P. Here. If you can’t make it, you’ll find some messaging recommendations below. Remember this is a peaceful protest. Please choose messaging that will unite us.
**FORT ATKINSON DETAILS – We”ll be at the Main St Bridge from 10am to 11:20 and then walking over to Barrie Park with our signs to hear from a few speakers including Representative Joan Fitzgerald. We’ll leave enough time for you to arrive at the next locations by 12:20. Please park in the nearby city parking lots and not on the bridge.
**PEACEFUL PROTESTING TIPS & SAFETY – Our aim is to keep this a peaceful protest. Please consider the following:
- Stay calm, focused, and peaceful. Your goal is to make a point, not provoke.
- Don’t engage with agitators. Step away and de-escalate if possible.
- Respect other protestors’ space and safety.
- Obey lawful orders
Sign Up & Find Location Details via these Mobilize links:
- Fort Atkinson 10am to 12pm**
- Lake Mills 12pm to 1pm
- Waterloo 12pm to 2pm
- Watertown (with our Social Justice friends) 12pm to 2pm
- Delavan (with our Wal Co Dem friends) 1pm to 3pm
- Cambridge (with Cambridge Action friends) 3pm to 5pm
About this event
In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.
The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.
A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
ACLU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS INFO FOR PROTESTS
- Your rights are strongest in what are known as “traditional public forums,” such as streets, sidewalks, and parks. You also likely have the right to speak out on other public property, like plazas in front of government buildings, as long as you are not blocking access to the government building or interfering with other purposes the property was designed for.
- Private property owners can set rules for speech on their property. The government may not restrict your speech if it is taking place on your own property or with the consent of the property owner.
- Counterprotesters also have free speech rights. Police must treat protesters and counterprotesters equally. Police are permitted to keep antagonistic groups separated but should allow them to be within sight and sound of one another.
- When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. On private property, the owner may set rules related to photography or video.
- You don’t need a permit to march in the streets or on sidewalks, as long as marchers don’t obstruct car or pedestrian traffic. If you don’t have a permit, police officers can ask you to move to the side of a street or sidewalk to let others pass or for safety reasons.
NO KINGS SIGN MESSAGING SUGGESTIONS
- WE THE PEOPLE for Affordable Health Care
- WE THE PEOPLE for Free & Fair Elections
- WE THE PEOPLE for Clean Air & Water
- WE THE PEOPLE for The Constitution
- WE THE PEOPLE for …Our Kids’ Future
- This is What Democracy Looks Like
- Medicaid Saves Lives
- Farmers Deserve Better
- Dignity not Deportations
- Hands Off American History
- We Abolished a Monarchy April 19, 1775
- Indivisible With Liberty & Justice for All
- If you Want Peace, Work For Justice
- Democracy Not Dictatorship
- Workers over Billionaires – NO KINGS
- This is a MORAL MOMENT. It is not LEFT or Right. It is RIGHT OR WRONG
- Diversity Equals Strength
- Honk for Democracy
- Education not Deportation
- Love Thy Neighbor
- Love Thy Neighbor
- Save THE ACA – Our Health Depends on It
- Immigrants Make America Great
- I like ICE in my Coffee not on the STREETS
- Free Speech is For Everyone. Even People You Don’t Agree With
- Make SPEECH FREE AGAIN!
- Free Speech = Free Country
- SAVE OUR KIDS’ & YOUR GRANDKIDS’ FUTURE
- I Need To Tell My Children & Grandchildren I did not stay silent
- Families Belong Together