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Hundreds join Losey Boulevard gathering in La Crosse on “No Kings” day around the U.S.
La Crosse area residents joined in a nationwide “No Kings” series of demonstrations on Saturday, displaying signs at the intersection of Losey Boulevard and State Road at the Village shoppimg center.
Event organizer Tasha Lewis estimated that about 600 people would be present at the busy intersection during the midday gathering. Many of the signs carried by attendees were critical of President Trump, continuing the trend of other recent weekend demonstrations held at the same intersection since early April, as drivers often honked horns while passing through the crossing. Saturday’s event co-incided with Flag Day, as well as the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, and the president’s birthday.
Lewis said her group worked with local police to ensure safety at the gathering. She says people attending were young and old, “kids and veterans,” and described them as “peaceful but visible.”
Organizers of similar demonstrations in Minnesota cancelled some events, after the shootings of two state legislators and their spouses at their homes.
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Bill
June 14, 2025 at 5:27 pm
Brad-
As usual, you fail to state who “event organizer Tash Lewis” is or the name of her sponsoring group. I’m sure that Tasha Lewis did not take it upon herself to call several hundred Democrats from her kitchen table and invite them to participate.
Reporters have a responsibility to write “who, what, why, where, when and how” in any story. You normally touch on about half these in your work.
John
June 14, 2025 at 6:45 pm
It doesn’t take an invitation to protest the most unpopular president ever
Bill
June 15, 2025 at 9:00 am
Somehow, John, you forget that “the most unpopular president ever” won both the electoral and popular vote.
If 7-8 hundred people turn out for something in a metro area of 80 thousand or so, that’s about 1%.
More than 7-8 hundred people walk through the average Kwik Trip daily.
Your colleagues in the street can’t seem to accept the election results. Trump is doing exactly what he said he would.
I wasn't born yesterday
June 15, 2025 at 1:28 pm
Thank you, Bill, for your comments. Until WIZM changes its affiliation with CBS News, and stops featuring Associated Press articles online, I suppose we cannot expect their own staff to deviate far from that, and to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Or as Paul Harvey put it, “the rest of the story”.
Libertarian Guy
June 18, 2025 at 12:03 am
This weekend, across America, people poured into the streets chanting “No Kings.” They were angry. Loud. Focused. At least focused on a part of the problem. Most of the signs were about Trump. The rage timed to coincide with his military parade in D.C. But behind the partisan fog, there was something deeper: a signal in the noise. The protestors are right to be angry. But they’re wrong if they think the problem is just one man. Trump may posture like a king, but he didn’t build the throne. He just leased it like his predecessors.
The hard truth is this: we live in a system built for kings. One where power is centralized, unquestioned by Congress, and passed around like a family heirloom between red and blue dynasties. One president wages drone wars. The next expands the surveillance state. The next prints trillions and inflates your future into dust. Different coats of paint. Same crown. MAGA said they’d put America First. Instead, they handed more power to Washington, more money to defense contractors, and more authority to the same agencies they swore to fight. The swamp never drained. It was remodeled by the current occupants. The Left screamed about authoritarianism under Trump. But they fell silent when Biden used the same tools—censorship, executive orders, foreign wars—just with a different tone. Because it was their king doing the ruling. This is what you get when you believe the throne just needs a better occupant. Solem will continue to spout his liberal left rhetoric along with his buddy Ivan (William) Garcia. Chergosky the political scientist/college professor will ignore Libertarian views in the classroom and on the air further negating real change. Buck Sexton and Hannity will disregard Libertarians as a party that can’t win (because Republicans want to keep power as much as Democrats). And on we go fighting with one another to the death (of the country).Libertarians don’t want the crown. We want the crown destroyed. We want to strike at the roots of government power and control and cut off the head of leviathan.
We believe in a world where you’re not ruled. Where your rights aren’t handed down by a bureaucrat. Where your money isn’t stolen through inflation and taxation to fund a war machine you never asked for.
Every dollar we send overseas, every executive order that Congress cheers on, every alphabet agency with unaccountable power—that’s the leviathan growing. Both Republicans and Democrats feed it.
Everyone is calling for an alternative. Help us actually build it. >>>
So to those who marched: you felt something real. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. It’s like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Don’t waste it.
Don’t aim your rage at one name. Aim it at the system that makes kings out of bureaucrats and warlords out of presidents.
There is only one political party that is based on a philosophy of human respect, individual liberty, and recognizes government power as force.
We’re not interested in ruling. We’re interested in ending the era of rulers.
To all of you who are tired of being tricked by fools jockeying red and blue partisanship, offering you hope on one hand while advancing the status quo with the other.
Join the Libertarian Party. Say it with us. Not just today, but every day from here on out:
No kings. No masters. Only freedom.
Dylan
June 18, 2025 at 12:52 pm
I enjoyed reading your response, thanks for sharing!