'No Kings' Protest In Haddon Twp., Collingswood: What To Know

HADDON TOWNSHIP, NJ — A second series of “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration will take place around the country on Saturday, including a demonstration in Haddon Township.

No Kings is a coalition of numerous progressive and pro-democracy organizations led and coordinated by the national organizing group Indivisible.

In the first No Kings protests in June, millions of people peacefully demonstrated against what they say are authoritarian policies of President Donald Trump. The protests were held on the same day as the U.S. Army 250th Anniversary Parade on Trump’s 79th birthday.

At least 2,000 protests will be held Saturday in every state in the country, with demonstrations planned in most major U.S. cities, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Protests are designed to be a peaceful day of action, according to the No Kings website.

The Haddon Township No Kings protest is set for 12-4 p.m. outside the Westmont PATCO station (100 Stoy Ave.). Protesters will begin marching down Haddon Avenue at 12:30 p.m. and reach Collingswood, where a rally is set for 2:30 p.m. at the Collingswood Farmers' Market site on Irvin Avenue. Here's more details.

Here are some other rallies in the area:

• Pine Hill: across from Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia (500 W Branch Ave.), 12-3 p.m. Saturday.
• Gloucester County: William Dalton Drive and Delsea Drive, Glassboro; 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday.
• Philadelphia: Philadelphia City Hall (1400 John F. Kennedy Blvd.), 12-3 p.m. Saturday.

In June, No Kings protesters marched from Haddon Township to Collingswood, where a rally took place. More than 5,000 people attended, according to Cooper River Indivisible, the group that organized the local event.

Speakers included local politicians, labor leaders and Muhammed Emanet, the son of Jersey Kebab owners Celal and Emine Emanet, who immigration authorities detained earlier this year at the family's Haddon Township restaurant.

Around the nation, protestors’ ranks are expected to be swelled by laid-off federal workers who won’t get a paycheck until the federal government reopens or who may lose their jobs entirely.

A large gathering planned on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol drew the ire of House Speaker Mike Johnson, who told Fox News on Friday that although he is “a very patient guy,” he has “had it with these people.”

He called the Saturday protest a “Hate America rally” staged by “all the pro-Hamas wing and the antifa people.”

“They’re all coming out,” Johnson said.

Antifa, short for anti-fascist, is not a singular organization but an umbrella term for militant groups that confront neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations. President Trump has sought to classify them as a domestic-terrorist group.

Indivisible has condemned both the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel's "avalanche of war crimes committed against Palestinians in Gaza nearly every day since."

The American Federation of Government Employees urged members of its 900 local unions to join No Kings protests, as well. Together, the locals represent more than 820,000 workers in almost every federal agency of the government.

“The protest movement has taken on new urgency with the government shutdown that began Oct. 1,” the union said in an Oct. 6 statement. “Shutting down the government is another authoritarian power grab by this administration, which has threatened to lay off mass numbers of furloughed federal workers as part of an ongoing quest to gut federal programs and services the administration finds objectionable.”

No Kings said demonstrators this weekend are expected to protest a variety of administration policies, including immigration enforcement by masked agents, the disruption of migrant families, congressional map gerrymandering, health care and higher costs of living.