Photos: No Kings Day, March 28
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Clusters of protesters stood on two corners of the busy intersection of routes 20 and 155 in Guilderland on Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide No Kings movement. More than 3,100 events were registered across all 50 states, aiming to surpass the roughly 7 million participants from the October 2025 rallies.
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
Jeannette Rice, at center, leads a crowd of about 120 in a rendition of “We Shall Not Be Moved” with new words starting, “Donald Trump is a fascist ….” as Laurie Sablotny, in the foreground, plays a Pete Seeger version of the protest song popularized during the Civil Rights Movement. The singing was part of a No Kings protest on Saturday afternoon in the Rensselaerville Town Park.
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
“We want to build collective community power here,” says Kate Martin, who founded Hilltown Voices for Democracy before the October No Kings march in Rensselaerville. Just like the October march, Saturday’s No Kings rally drew about 120 people — despite temperatures in the 30s and snow in the air. Instead of marching this time, Martin said, community would be built “by talking instead of walking.”
The Enterprise — Melissa Hale-Spencer
Homemade signs: One of the protesters at the Hilltown No Kings rally displays a sign that says, in red, “Trump needs a lesson in the law” and then lists, in blue, the five rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. A mother and her elementary-school age daughter displayed a poster board of several signs they made, which included a smiling, yellow construction-paper sun that said, “Let the sunshine in” and a heart-strewn square that said in crayoned capital letters, “Keep creating and building joy, peace, and a loving United States.”