Protest Rallies Planned Across Bay Area Saturday

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Organizers are predicting sizable turnouts to dozens of planned protests against President Donald Trump and his administration across the Bay Area on Saturday, with the largest demonstrations expected in San Francisco and Walnut Creek.

The “No Kings” march and protest in San Francisco will begin at 2 p.m. in Sue Bierman Park in Embarcadero Plaza and end at Civic Center Plaza for a rally that starts at 3:30 p.m. A “human banner” is also expected on Ocean Beach.

Additional protests are planned in Pleasant Hill, San Jose, Redwood City, Novato, Benicia, Santa Rosa, Oakland, Livermore and Sacramento. A complete map of scheduled rallies can be found at https://www.nokings.org/#map.

Saturday’s protests will be the second “No Kings” day of demonstrations since Trump took office in January. The first drew tens of thousands of participants in the Bay Area.

Small counter-protests are expected.

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24 Comments

  1. Pat Price-Martens on Oct 17, 2025 at 11:02 am

    We’ll be in Walnut Creek!!! Hope to see everyone there again.

  2. david on Oct 17, 2025 at 11:57 am

    No kings

  3. Jeff on Oct 17, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    Too bad I’ll be in Montana, would have helped out the PD’s with rioters.

    Firestone 11R

    • NEWS24-680 on Oct 17, 2025 at 2:48 pm

      C’mon… pretty good history of non-riotous behavior from these folks.

      And have fun in the Big Sky, our old rodeo grounds.

    • david on Oct 17, 2025 at 6:41 pm

      Have you seen the Walnut Creek crowd? If so, you knowingly misrepresent its peaceful past. I’m hanging in the back with the feisty old ladies and gentlemen in their wheelchairs and walkers with their signs because I need to escape the sun. Walnut Creek is not Portland. The crowd will be LARGE and peaceful and LOUD with our indignation.

    • Person on Oct 18, 2025 at 9:48 am

      Walkers and baby strollers just being casually thrown around as weapons. Someone’s gonna end up needing a hip replacement.

    • John Hemm on Oct 18, 2025 at 4:21 pm

      You’re thinking of Jan. 6th

  4. Neighbor on Oct 17, 2025 at 4:57 pm

    I thought i read Pleasant Hill started at 12. And Walnut Creek starts at 11:30.

  5. Greg T on Oct 17, 2025 at 5:10 pm

    OH no.. that means in Walnut Creek they’ll be probably take over Broadway Plaza again! That just settles it for us: we were planning to go there for shopping and lunch tomorrow but probably best to stay away. Last time the protests took all the parking spots.

    • david on Oct 17, 2025 at 6:31 pm

      No, no. No worries! There will be a parking spot for you. Take BART. Stretch your legs and your voice. Come join the protest against king-rule. It’s not a May Day rally after all.

  6. Jeff on Oct 17, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    And I was going to buy Mr. 24/680 lunch at Original Joe’s, but now there’s no parking.

    West Hollywood 91R

    • NEWS24-680 on Oct 17, 2025 at 6:24 pm

      Try the Fainting Goat in Livingston…

      • Jeff on Oct 18, 2025 at 5:10 am

        Good tip. Right after we finish with the herd on the ranch near Ryegate.

        Firestone 11R

  7. Sassy on Oct 17, 2025 at 7:21 pm

    And what is the purpose? LOL

    • Gregg on Oct 17, 2025 at 7:34 pm

      If you don’t know the answer to that you haven’t been awake this last decade.

    • Person on Oct 18, 2025 at 9:51 am

      Purpose? We don’t need no stinkin’ purpose!

  8. david on Oct 17, 2025 at 7:40 pm

    Resistance
    “the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.”
    We refuse. LOL
    I’m not sure who said it, but the operative reply to the bully’s demand is: MAKE ME.

  9. anthony capobianco on Oct 18, 2025 at 4:46 am

    These people are fools. Stop crying.

  10. Jules on Oct 18, 2025 at 7:26 am

    I thought the people couldn’t protest against a king

    • Bob Hale on Oct 18, 2025 at 7:40 am

      A long line of English and French kings would disagree.

      • Jules on Oct 19, 2025 at 6:58 am

        I just don’t understand the thought process of equating Trump to a king. Please explain.

  11. Brad on Oct 18, 2025 at 11:52 am

    On my way!!! Don’t sstart without me!!!

  12. Mr. Daniel Loomis on Oct 18, 2025 at 2:01 pm

    These same mostly elderly white liberals were quite docile when King Gavin unnessarily shut down the state during COVID. Small businesses were destroyed, children lost a full year or more of school, thousands died in hospitals without their families being allowed to visit them, etc etc . And now these same citizens allow themselves to be used by that same man who has done more to ruin my beautiful state, than anyone. To quote John Lydon, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

    • Person on Oct 18, 2025 at 3:36 pm

      Not docile. Rational. Nothing good happens in a pandemic. California handled it like every other modern country, and death rates were considerably lower than your dream places that acted as if it was business as usual.

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