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Mayor Wu, who has clashed with the Trump administration over immigration, will headline a “No Kings” rally in Boston on October 18, part of a national day of action against the Trump regime. The rally, focusing on protecting immigrant neighbors, is organized in response to what organizers call the Trump regime’s “authoritarian abuses, cruelty and corruption.” Wu’s prominence stems from her defiance of a federal order to dismantle Boston’s sanctuary policies, specifically the Trust Act, leading to a federal lawsuit against the city. Organizers promise a “wicked loud” protest to defend democracy against perceived abuses.
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Wu, who has battled with the Trump administration over immigration and other policies in recent months, will be featured at this month’s protest in Boston alongside “other leading voices of resistance,” according to event organizers.
The planned demonstration at the Parade Grounds on Boston Common, at Charles and Beacon Streets, will coincide with other “No Kings” rallies that will be occurring across the country, as part of an “Oct. 18 day of action.”
“On Oct. 18, the people of Boston will assemble to say with one wicked loud voice, ‘America has No Kings,” event organizers said in a Monday press release. “This is part of a national day of action against the Trump regime’s authoritarian abuses, cruelty and corruption.”
Wu attended and spoke at the June No Kings rally in Boston, but is billed as the headliner by event organizers this time around.
Since June’s protest, Wu has refused to comply with a federal order to dismantle the city’s sanctuary policies, namely the Trust Act, which limits local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
At a rally-like press conference in late August, Wu announced her intention to defy the federal order, issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying that “Boston will never back down.”
The feds sued the City of Boston, Wu, the Boston Police Department and the police commissioner shortly thereafter, in early September, over the city’s sanctuary policies, which Bondi said at the time are “designed to undermine law enforcement and protect illegal aliens from justice.”
Local event organizers said this month’s No Kings demonstration in Boston will focus, in part, on “(protecting) our immigrant neighbors.”
“We’re wicked pissed, but we’re wicked united,” event organizers said in this week’s press release. “And we’re going to be wicked loud. This fight is bigger than partisan politics.
“Boston is rising up to protect democracy because the Trump regime is: sending ICE’s masked ‘secret police’ into our neighborhoods — profiling, threatening and disappearing people; defying courts, cutting jobs, gutting health care and education, and eliminating food and housing assistance; silencing voters through gerrymandering and voter suppression; ignoring mass shootings; all while handing out giveaways to their billionaire allies.”
Mayor Wu’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the event organizers’ characterization of her as the demonstration’s headliner.
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