LAKEPORT, Calif. — Concerned community members from across Lake County will gather in Lakeport’s Old Courthouse Museum Park at noon on Saturday, June 14, to take part in a broad-based, peaceful protest called “NO KINGS Nationwide Day of Defiance.”

The actions are set to take place during Donald Trump’s June 14 birthday military parade in Washington, D.C. It will also be the 250 th anniversary of the first shots fired in the American Revolution — in defiance of the authoritarian rule of King George III.

Instead of allowing this military parade to dominate the day, millions of activists will gather, not in Washington, but in Philadelphia and towns big and small across the country to demonstrate in favor of democracy and the rule of law.

Though the Lakeport rally is organized by the Lake County Democratic Club, it is fully supported by Indivisible Lake County, a nonpartisan group composed of citizens from across the political spectrum who are deeply concerned by the corrupt and dictatorial tendencies of the Trump Administration.

Indivisible Lake County is one of some 1,500 local chapters of the national Indivisible movement.

The Lake County Chapter is a rapidly expanding group of concerned community members founded in March by a leadership team including Peter Windrem, Dr. Gary Maes, Denise Rushing, Annette Hopkins, Bernie Butcher, Elizabeth Montgomery, Bill Groody, Karen Pavone, Gary Olson and Orla O’Keefe.

Citing such examples as deportations and mass civil servant firings without due process, targeting of individual and institutional perceived “enemies,” unprecedented personal corruption, usurpation of the constitutional powers of Congress, and defiance of court orders, the Indivisible leadership group urges Lake County citizens to “join together in rejecting Trump’s authoritarian vision and showing the wannabe king what democracy looks like.”

Of particular concern to the group is the impact of these threats on Lake County residents: “Many could lose not only their democratic rights, but access to programs they depend on — Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP.”

Attendees at the June 14 rally are encouraged to check the Indivisible Lake County website  and to bring water, wear weather-appropriate clothing, bring handmade signs or flags, and, most importantly, to bring their voices.