Friday, October 17, 2025: NO KINGS SANTA ROSA! March to Doyle Park TOMORROW, Saturday, October 18, 2025: 3 Options

Saturday, October 18 – Emmaus Community Members are encouraged to meet up at Doyle Park. Here are the options for Marching:

Option 1: If you want to start early and get your steps in, join us for the first, longer march which departs from Santa Rosa Junior College at 9 am. Pacific Time! (It’s about 1.9 Miles of walking from SRJC to Doyle Park)

Option 2: Or join the second march, which starts at 10 am PT at Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa. Almost a mile walk.

OPTION 3: Go directly to Doyle Park:  Marchers will all converge at Doyle Park in Santa Rosa for a community event at 11:00 am PT.

Location Juilliard Park 227 Santa Rosa Ave Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Doyle Community Park 700 Doyle Park Drive Santa Rosa, CA 95405

In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. In America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.

Building on the extremely powerful Farmers Lane No Kings 1 protest, Indivisible Sonoma County is hosting two marches for No Kings 2!

If you want to start early and get your steps in, join us for the first, longer march which departs from Santa Rosa Junior College at 9 am. PT!

Or join this second march, which starts at 10 am PT at Juilliard Park in Santa Rosa.

Marchers will all converge at Doyle Park in Santa Rosa for a community event at 11:00 am PT.

At this critical juncture in our nation's history, it's your chance to be loud, be proud, and push back against fascism. Bring water, wear sunscreen, and be sure to bring a friend. Or all your friends!

In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies.

A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.

The Prophetic Work of Jesus: Beyond a Gentle Jesus

Theologian Dr. Obery Hendricks Jr. describes the Jesus he was introduced to in his church communities as a meek and gentle Savior: 

I was raised on the bland Jesus of Sunday school and of my mother’s gentle retellings, the meek, mild Jesus who told us, in a nice, passive, sentimental way, to love our enemies, and who assured us that we need not worry about our troubles, just bring them to him. He was a gentle, serene, nonthreatening Jesus whose only concern was getting believers into heaven, and whose only “transgression” was to claim sonship with God.… 

Yet for all my trust and love and fervor, something in the portrayals of Jesus and his message did not seem quite right; something just didn’t make sense. Was this meek, mild Jesus the same Jesus who defiantly called the Pharisees “a brood of vipers” and described them as “whitewashed tombs full of every unclean thing”?... And if he was so meek and mild, how could he get anyone’s interest in the first place…? And what did Jesus mean by sayings like “I have come not to bring peace, but a sword”? I tried my best to understand, although questions like these were frowned on by my parents and every believer I knew as evidence of weak faith or, worse, of the devil’s confusion.  

Outside communal worship, Hendricks came to know a prophetic and revolutionary Jesus: 

I have been blessed to experience the adoration and worship of Jesus in every aspect of his person and grandeur … except one: Jesus the political revolutionary, the Jesus who is as concerned about liberating us from the kingdoms of earth as about getting us into the kingdom of heaven. Yet the Gospels tell us that is who Jesus is, too. And what he was crucified for. This is the Jesus that called me back to the Church—the revolutionary Jesus. 

Yes, Jesus of Nazareth was a political revolutionary. Now, to say that he was “political” doesn’t mean that he sought to start yet another protest party in Galilee. Nor does it mean that he was “involved in politics” in the sense that we know it today, with its bargaining and compromises and power plays and partisanship. And it certainly doesn’t mean that he wanted to wage war or overthrow the Roman Empire by force.  

To say that Jesus was a political revolutionary is to say that the message he proclaimed not only called for change in individual hearts but also demanded sweeping and comprehensive change in the political, social, and economic structures in his setting in life: colonized Israel. It means that if Jesus had his way, the Roman Empire and the ruling elites among his own people either would no longer have held their positions of power, or if they did, would have had to conduct themselves very, very differently…. It means that Jesus had a clear and unambiguous vision of the healthy world that God intended and that he addressed any issue—social, economic, or political—that violated that vision.