Elk Grove Organizers of 'No Kings' Encourage Continued Engagement in Wake of Well-Attended Protest

In a statement issued this morning, organizers of Elk Grove's "No Kings' protest on Saturday, October 18 expressed satisfaction with the crowd who attended the event.

According to Indivisible Elk Grove-Laguna, which is self-described as a "a progressive, grassroots advocacy group," over 2,500 people attend the three hour event that officially started at 10 a.m. Organizers said the Elk Grove crowd was more than double of what attended the June "No Kings" protest in Elk Grove

Unlike many of the other 2,600 other nationwide protests that included marches, the protesters were stationed primarily on the northeast corner of Laguna Boulevard and Bruceville Road. The protesters were greeted with passing motorists who honked horns in support.

The Indivisible statement said, "The turnout was nearly twice the size of the inaugural No Kings protest held in June 2025, signaling growing momentum for this movement defending democratic, American values."
 
“We know that the mass mobilization of people behind a united cause makes a difference because history gives us endless examples of this,” Elk Grove resident and Indivisible organizer Rachel Lee Perez said in the statement. “It was the mass mobilization of people behind a united cause that created change during the Civil Rights Movement. It created change during the Women’s Suffrage Movement."

There was no uniformed law enforcement presence at the event which went off without any violence as opponents of the nationwide protested suggest would happen.

IN their statement, the local Indivisible group urged people to "push to advocate for policies that help working class people; not billionaires." The group also said it would organize future actions and to keep abreast with their acitvities on their social media site.