On this episode of Start Making Sense, Indivisible's Ezra Levin on Saturday’s nationwide protests, and Harold Meyerson on the National Guard and the Marines in Los Angeles.
Protesters continue to clash with the Los Angeles Police Department in downtown Los Angeles over the immigration raids on Monday, June 9, 2025.(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests, with 5 million people at 2100 events, was the largest single day of protest in American history. Leah Greenberg of Indivisible will talk about how the event was organized, and what comes next.
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With tanks rolling down the street in DC on Saturday and troops being deployed to LA, it’s never been more important to come together in nonviolent action to exercise our First Amendment right to peaceful protest. That’s what the organization Indivisible says about Saturday’s National Day of Defiance—the nationwide “No Kings” protests. Ezra Levin will explain; he’s a cofounder and co–executive director of Indivisible.
Also: Who, exactly, is being arrested by ICE agents in Los Angeles? Why is the National Guard in downtown LA? And what are the 700 Marines Trump sent to LA supposed to do? Harold Meyerson will comment—he’s editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.