photo by: Shawn Valverde/Special to the Journal-World

Protesters gather in Watson Park on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, for a No Kings rally.

Another No Kings rally is scheduled for this coming weekend in Watson Park.

The rally, the third of its kind, will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday at the “train park” just west of downtown Lawrence at Sixth and Kentucky streets.

The No Kings rallies have taken place across the nation throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, and thousands of people participated in the Lawrence gatherings in June and October of last year.

“When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option,” national organizers say on the group’s website. “We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence. America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear. It belongs to us, the people.”

Local rally organizers with Lawrence Indivisible said: “Freedom is never guaranteed; it erodes when good people stay silent, making us the antidote to blind obedience and the remnant that remembers humans were born to rule themselves.”

Organizers emphasize that the protest is “a non-violent event, and all attendees enter into an unwritten agreement to be non-violent throughout the event and/or while connected to the event or associated in any way.”

A No Kings rally is also scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.

Rallies are also scheduled in Baldwin City (9:30 a.m. at 600 Ames St.) and Eudora (10 a.m. at Church and East 14th streets). Additional information about rallies in Kansas and elsewhere can be found online at www.mobilize.us/nokings.