{"id":192100,"date":"2025-09-01T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192100\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T18:26:09","slug":"dozens-gather-in-southside-for-no-kings-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/192100\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens gather in Southside for \u2018No Kings\u2019 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Dozens of protesters gathered near the St. Johns Town Center on Monday morning for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Labor Day, protesters lined the sidewalk along Town Center Parkway, holding signs that denounced President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and called for unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI think we\u2019re losing our rights as citizens,\u201d Millie Gunell said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t band together, I think there\u2019s a really good chance that we are going to lose our democracy, and this country will not be the country that we have always thought it to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Several people driving by the demonstration honked to show support for the protest\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of protesters gathered near the St. Johns Town Center on Monday morning for a \u201cNo Kings\u201d rally. (Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The \u201cNo Kings\u201d theme was orchestrated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiftyfifty.one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">50501 Movement<\/a>, a national movement made up of Americans who say they stand for democracy and against what they call the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Allen Tilley said he decided to attend Monday\u2019s protest to join the community in expressing their opinion \u201cthat the country is headed in the wrong direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIn fact, we need to go partly back to where we came from, and partly into a new kind of organization that actually enacts the will of the people,\u201d Tilley said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Dozens of protesters gathered near the St. Johns Town Center on Monday morning for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,69,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-192100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115130453154143264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}