Miscellaneous: No Kings March, March 28 2026

According to news reports, about 8.3 million people turned out across the United States on Saturday, March 28, to join a "No Kings" march. More than 3,000 locations saw marchers out on the street. I attended the event in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa protestors gathered at two locations in the city and marched toward each other to gather at Santa Rosa's downtown plaza. 

I haven't seen a final estimate, but I heard that as many an 15,000 people may have marched in Santa Rosa. If true, that would be about 10% of the city's population.  

Miscellaneous: The March for Our Lives (March 24, 2018)

It was heartening today to see Santa Rosa's Courthouse Square filled with protestors of all ages demanding better gun control, but particularly heartening to see so many young people participating and speaking out. Maybe we really have reached a tipping point? I say, from now on, let an "A" rating from the NRA be a new kind of scarlet letter, standing not for "adulterer" pinned on the breast of Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, but standing for "accomplice" and "accessory" to murder. Let the NRA "A" rating be no longer a badge of submission to the NRA worn by spineless representatives in thrall to the gun lobby, but a guide to voters no longer content to tolerate politicians ignoring the will of the majority of the people on this issue.

Miscellaneous: Seen Recently in San Francisco

I came across this little protest recently in San Francisco.