The No Kings movement, which began in June of 2025 as a series of rallies across the country coinciding with a military parade held on President Donald Trump’s birthday, is rallying across the country for the third time on Saturday, March 28.
Local organizers are holding No Kings 3 events on the East End in Riverhead, Hampton Bays, Greenport, Sag Harbor and East Hampton.
Pictured Above: At the June 14, 2025 No Kings rally in Riverhead.
“What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy,” says the national No Kings organization, which stresses that one of its core principals is nonviolence and de-escalation of potential confrontations at its events.
“No Kings is a nonviolent national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration,” they added. “President Trump is governing through fear, intimidation and hoarding power that isn’t his — the opposite of democracy.”
The Greenport protest will kick off the day’s events, from 10 a.m. to Noon in Mitchell Park, with speakers, protest artists and music followed by a march through town.
“Organizers planned to begin this event early so protestors could join the other East End rallies,” according to the organizers. “In addition to speakers, the Greenport rally has a protest art piece and music that will kick off the march, which will end back at Mitchell Park by noon.”
Riverhead is going all-out for the day’s events, with a two-mile, one-hour march beginning at noon at Riverhead High School at 700 Harrison Avenue, led by Riverhead and Greenport students who organized anti-ICE walkouts from their high schools in January. The march will go from the High School to Town Hall and then to the Suffolk County Supreme Court at 235 Griffing Avenue, with a culminating rally at 1:30 p.m.
“People in our community are especially motivated to protest by the outrageous mass deportation attacks by ICE on the East End, destroying peaceful family lives of immigrants with no criminal records and threatening the local economy,” says Riverhead coordinator John McAuliff. “New concern has been created by Trump’s unauthorized deadly military assaults against Iran, Venezuela and potentially Cuba, in violation of US and international law. There is also increasing fear that the President wants to destroy the integrity of our November midterm elections.”
“Town Hall is a focal point because Riverhead is the only East End town where elected officials have refused to give serious attention to proposed legislation drafted by OLA of Eastern Long Island to limit the destructive role of ICE in the community,” said the Riverhead organizers in their announcement of the day’s events.
Here are more details about the Riverhead event.
The Sag Harbor event will be held at Steinbeck Park from 11 a.m. to noon. The East Hampton event will be held on the front lawn of East Hampton Town Hall from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Organizers are asking attendees to carpool due to limited parking at Town Hall and no street parking. Free shuttle buses will run from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Atlantic Beach.
The Hampton Bays event, organized by Indivisible Long Island, will be held from Noon to 2 p.m. on Montauk Highway between The Atrium and Good Ground Cemetery. It will include an optional march to Ponquogue Avenue and back. Indivisible Long Island is also organizing a rally at the Riverhead County Center (300 Center Drive in Riverside) at 9 a.m. — this is a separate event from the downtown Riverhead rally.
There had also been two No Kings rallies in Riverhead last October for No Kings 2.
Indivisible is also involved with a “March March,” a 40-mile walk beginning at 8 a.m. on March 28 at the Montauk Lighthouse, ending in Hampton Bays at 8 p.m. Walkers are also seeking donations to Latino advocacy group OLA of Eastern Long Island, online here.
“I refuse to raise my son in a country that rewards cruelty and punishes decency,” said Indivisible co-organizer Allison Kanas. “We must stand up together and show that kindness still matters, that doing the right thing still matters.”
“I have been blessed in my journey to be able to join hands with wonderful women these past several months and continue a path of friendship, unity and solidarity,” said Nathalie Marie Alenski, a co-organizer of the Hampton Bays and County Center rallies.
More information on all the No Kings events can be found at nokings.org.
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