Thousands let their voices be heard at ‘No Kings’ rally in Dublin

An estimated 5,000 people demonstrated their displeasure with President Donald Trump’s administration at the “No Kings” rally in Dublin, joining millions of their peers in cities across the country in a day of protest of federal actions and policies Saturday. 

The Dublin demonstration focused on national issues like tariffs, proposed cuts to Medicaid, reliance on executive orders, the deployment of U.S. troops in Los Angeles during protests and immigration enforcement – the latter of which brought out local connections such as the deportation of Livermore resident Miguel Lopez and the consideration of using the now-shuttered federal prison in Dublin as an immigrant detention center, organizers said. 

The event included the visible display of a human chain of more than a mile from Interstate 680 to Dougherty Road “in solidarity and to reject authoritarianism”, according to Indivisible Tri-Valley, which hosted the local “No Kings” rally.

“In the political theater, local activists used the imprisonment of Lady Liberty to represent the current president’s cruel and lawless policies including ICE raids and deportations without due processes; his plan to cut Medicaid and the safety net for working families to fund tax cuts for billionaires, and his tariffs which make everyday goods more expensive for regular people,” organizers said in a post-event press release. “Lady Liberty was freed by a series of chants to remind the power ‘We the People’ hold.”

Featured speakers included Laura Brown on behalf of Lopez and his family, Rev. Jennifer Murdock of Lynnewood United Methodist Church in Pleasanton and Vietnam veteran Rion Causey. 

“It was amazing,” Kyoko Takayama of Indivisible Tri-Valley told the Pleasanton Weekly afterward. “People are really angry … Laura’s speech was heartbreaking, and people came to ask which church Rev. Murdock serves. They loved her.”

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