{"id":2273,"date":"2026-03-29T15:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:02:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:02:59","slug":"no-kings-rallygoers-in-new-york-share-their-biggest-fears-and-greatest-hopes-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"No Kings Rallygoers in New York Share Their Biggest Fears\u2014and Greatest Hopes \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"hero is-image \">\n\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">Protesters march down Manhattan&#8217;s 7th Avenue on Saturday during a No Kings rally, carrying signs calling for Trump&#8217;s arrest. &#8220;I know we have each other,&#8221; artist Molly Crabapple said, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s enough, but that&#8217;s all we have.&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">James West\/Mother Jones<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mj-text-cta\">Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_No_Oligarchs\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"NewsletterPromoCovid\" data-ga-action=\"click|https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/newsletters\/?mj_oac=Article_Top_Support\">Sign up for the free <em>Mother Jones Daily<\/em>.<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve covered all the No Kings protests in New York City since the start of Trump\u2019s second presidency. What has struck me about all of them is how they fuse people\u2019s fears with their hopes. The fear is what drives people onto the streets: threats to democracy, the war in Iran, attacks on LGBTQ Americans. The hope: each other, the promise of change. So, amid a raucous sea of angry, festive rallygoers along Manhattan\u2019s 7th Avenue on Saturday, I asked people: What is your biggest fear and greatest hope right now?<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6xPhkWR38fU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My Biggest Fear. My Greatest Hope. We Asked Protestors at No Kings in NYC.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xPhkWR38fU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>      <\/iframe>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m here because they\u2019re fucking building concentration camps that they\u2019re locking tens of thousands of people in, and ICE is in our fucking airports,\u201d the artist (and \u201c<em>Mother Jones<\/em> fan\u201d) Molly Crabapple told me. \u201cToo many people are dying and too many people are in cages.\u201d And while she doesn\u2019t typically think \u201cin hope,\u201d she was inspired by the community. \u201cI know we have each other and I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s enough, but that\u2019s all we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Matthew Nichols, a 56-year-old arts worker, the greatest fear is November\u2019s midterms\u2014that \u201cthere\u2019ll be some significant interference,\u201d he said. \u201cAll of these things that seemed farfetched maybe a year ago or two years ago are actually coming to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ash, 29, a Mexican agricultural worker, says he fears people being silenced and \u201closing empathy\u201d but, like others I met, pointed to \u201call of us,\u201d gesturing around, as providing him with hope. \u201cPeople from all walks of life. Rich people, poor people, white people, black people. Everyone. So, it\u2019s quite powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/no-kings-rally-nyc-hopes-fears-video\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters march down Manhattan&#8217;s 7th Avenue on Saturday during a No Kings rally, carrying signs calling for Trump&#8217;s arrest. &#8220;I know we have each other,&#8221; artist Molly Crabapple said, &#8220;and I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s enough, but that&#8217;s all we have.&#8221;James West\/Mother Jones Get your news from a source that\u2019s not owned and controlled by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-usa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}