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No Kings Two Comes to Ypsilanti, Michigan!
Ann Arbor Indivisible
October 26, 2025
Ann Arbor Indivisible teamed up with Ypsilanti Indivisible to host a No Kings March around Riverside Park, Ypsilanti, in the early afternoon hours of October 18, 2025. The League of Women Voters joined in the planning. Washtenaw County Commissioner Yousef Rabhi started the march off with a short rallying cry to thank everyone for coming and for exercising their First Amendment right to assemble.
Thousands of people fill Riverside Park as marchers file onto the sidewalk.
About 1800 registered for the event. Actual attendance was at least double that, with a conservative count of 3500, and with a very possible number being well over 4000. Rally-goers began to assemble in Riverside Park a little before noon, some of them taking advantage of the crafts at the Kids Table. By 1:15 p.m., with future marchers still streaming over the bridge to enter Riverside Park, the march began, led by people holding Ypsilanti Indivisible, the League of Women Voters, and Ann Arbor Indivisible banners.
Kids chalked the sidewalk as well as making signs.
The route of march started by going west on Cross Street, then turning south on Huron Street, east on Michigan Avenue, north on River, then left on Cross again before dispersing. A 40-person marshaling team from Ann Arbor Indivisible were positioned all along the route and in the park to ensure the marchers kept safe for the duration of the event.
No Kings marchers line the sidewalk.
People came from all over southeast Michigan to take part. Universally, attendants were excited about being there, and loved the venue. “This is such a beautiful park, and a beautiful day!” one enthusiastic Belleville resident said.
People dressed in inflatable animal suits enjoy the park.
Another marcher who had come in from Troy noticed many different groups of protesters. In addition to the planned Indivisible march, there was another group who marched in the street, going the opposite direction from the official No Kings march. Also, she said, “I know the estimates won’t include them, but we saw a bunch of people, especially old ladies, driving around the march route holding signs out of their car windows and honking. They weren’t walking in protest, but they were clearly here with us.”
One passenger expressed their passionate political feelings with GLITTER.
The Ypsilanti No Kings Rally was an overwhelmingly positive and totally non-violent event. One Ann Arbor resident, clearly responding to the GOP talking point that it might be an ‘I hate America’ rally, said it was “Quite the opposite, of course.” She admitted to crying as she marched. “I was very moved by the whole thing.”
This is what democracy looks like.