Weekly Member Update - October 6, 2025
We bringing you an abbreviated Update this week to highlight our busy, busy Events Calendar, with a particular emphasis on some especially noteworthy local happenings that you need to mark on your own calendar.
This coming week, the momentum for No Kings 2.0 (more on that in a bit) is really ramping up, and we encourage you to prepare to be the best demonstartor that you can be by attending two online training sessions being offered this week. First, the ACLU is offering a No Kings Protest Safety, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training tonight (October 6) at 8 PM and, later this week, on Thursday, October 9 at 9PM, MoveOn is offering an online No Kings Safety and Security Training. In last week’s Update, we talked a lot about bravery and courage and, as we see it, those attributes flow naturally from being knowledgable and getting trained up so you can anticipate every situation. While we have no reason to believe that our local No Kings event will see the kind of violent and unlawful federal response we are all seeing in Chicago and Portland, we still want everyone who participates in No Kings to be safe, and the best way to ensure everyone’s safety is for as many participants as possible to get educated on protest safety and de-escalation techniques. Knowledge is power, people!
Next Monday, on Indigenous People’s Day, we’ll be spending a good portion of the day at the Guilderland Public Library. First, at 1:30 PM, we’re teaming with the Palestinian Rights Committee for an exclusive free screening of the documentary Israelism. Later that same day, we’ll be holding our Monthly Member Meeting to discuss last-minute details on all things No Kings 2.0. And, if you have some time to kill in between events, you can always join Guilderland Indivisible for their weekly street protest just down the street from the Library at the intersection of Route 155 and Western Avenue.
On the evening of Thursday, October 16, our friends at the Museum of Political Corruption are holding their 9th Annual Presentation of the Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting as the Museum honors Glenn Kessler, longtime fact-checker at The Washington Post.
Before we get back to No Kings 2.0, we have two events coming up after No Kings that you should be aware of. On Monday, October 20 at 6PM, Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado is holding a Meet and Greet at Lionheart on the Green in Albany’s Warehouse District. And then, the following Saturday, October 25, we’ll be celebrating our six-month anniversary of protesting the Albany International Airport presence of the despicable Avelo Airlines; we can’t believe its been six months, time apparently flies when you’re working to smash a pillar of power.
Finally, we’re less than two weeks away from No Kings 2.0, and we need all of you to help build momentum for the big day. First of all, if you’re still trying to pick out the right outfit for No Kings 2.0, don’t forget to visit on our online store for all the Indivisible Albany and No Kings gear that you will need. More important than your sartorial splendor, however, is spreading the word everywhere and anywhere that you can think of to help drive turnout to No Kings. To that end, everything that you’ll ever need to know about No Kings 2.0 is available on our website, where we will be maintaining a centralized clearinghouse of up-to-date information about the event, including maps and parking information. We are updating information as quickly as it comes in, so bookmarking our website is the surest way to stay on top of everything that is happening.
The bottom line about No Kings 2.0 is that we will be gathering along Western Avenue between Fuller Road and Manning Boulevard beginning at noon on Saturday October 18. If holding a sign for roadside passers-by is your thing, there will be plenty of opportunity for that, as we hope to have thousands line the roadway as we did on Wolf Road in June. But, for No Kings 2.0, we will also be conducting a peaceful march on a route covering parts of Fuller and Western (map available on our website here). The purpose of the march is to build community and draw new participants to our pro-Democracy, anti-authoritarian movement, and we have already have confirmed attendance by a host of local elected officials, faith leaders, immigrant rights organizations, civic groups and organized labor. In addition, later this week, we’ll be sending an open letter to the Capital Region’s legal community, encouraging local bar associations and the hundreds of lawyers and judges who call the 518 home to join us in the streets in defense of the Rule of Law. The actions of the Orange King and his minions are an affront to that Rule of Law, a direct assault on the US Constitution and are anathema to every principle that guides the work of lawyers and judges every day. It is time that lawyers get off the sidelines, defend the Constitution that they have sworn an oath to uphold and join the people that they serve in defense of our American way of life. So, we’ll be calling on the greater Albany legal community to join us in the march, either as direct participants marching under their banner of the local bar association, or as individual legal observers or safety marshalls to help keep other participants safe.
Again, we really want to drive major turnout to this event which matches (or even surpasses) what the people of the Capital Region pulled off on Wolf Road of No Kings 1.0 in June. To that end, we are counting on all of you to help spread the word; tell your friends and family, and make it your personal obsession to bring a few people who have never protested before (God knows that we have more reasons than ever to be in the streets!). To assist you in your recruiting efforts, feel free to share the Nipper flier at the top of this screen, it has a QR code that drives users to our No Kings website. You can also print some fliers and put them on whatever bulletin boards, lampposts and shop windows that you see fit in your own respective neighborhoods. Encourage your own elected officials, from Town Board members on up, to come walk with us in allegiance to our democracy. And finally, you can also assist in our publicity blitz by contributing to our fundraising efforts. Thanks to you and your tremendous generosity, we’ve already raised a good portion of the money we need to hire a Billboard Truck to publicize No Kings 2.0 and to participate in the event itself. But, every little bit helps to fully cover our advertising costs, so if you can spare just a little more, it would be greatly appreciated.
See you in the streets, Indivisibles!