Thousands of people from across the Palmetto State are expected at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Statehouse for what is expected to be part of the nation’s largest organized protest in history.

A coalition of civil rights groups is pulling together millions of participants in more than 2,500 events in each state, Europe and Canada.

South Carolina organizers want people to rally at the Statehouse and then march 1.3 miles to the governor’s mansion.

The nationwide protests coincide with an ongoing government shutdown, threatening federal workers and services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in several U.S. cities and the Trump administration’s musings about invoking the Insurrection Act to quash political dissent.

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