Crowds grew in Alameda Park at Santa Barbara’s No Kings protest on Saturday. By 12:30 p.m., thousands of people, many clutching homemade signs with slogans such as “Stop Trump to Save Democracy,” congregated in a wide semi-circle around the park's stage listening to speakers. But by 1:30, the speeches were over, and the crowd began pouring out onto Anacapa Street, peacefully marching the seven blocks to De la Guerra Plaza.
Myra Paige, one of the protest’s organizers, addressed the Alameda Park crowd. “We all have the same message,” she said. “Say it with me. No ICE, no war, and no kings.”
The crowd repeated her words and then roared.