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For a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon, the din of midtown traffic was replaced by thousands of marchers whistling, cheering and singing folk songs at a ‘No Kings’ protest down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
The demonstration, which broadly denounced the Trump administration’s policies, brought out students worried about funding their education, healthcare workers watching federal funds drain from public initiatives and New Yorkers fed up with the administration’s focus on ejecting immigrants in a city that’s long prided itself as a haven for migrants