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No Kings Day 2, Hardwick

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Organizers with the Indivisible Hardwick group, and others, gathered at GRACE on MIll St. Thursday evening, to make signs for the upcoming No KIngs Day 2 march and rally, include (from left) Jan Mueller, setting up a musical playlist for the Saturday event and making signs: Cheryl Willams, Rachel Cole, Charlotte Benoit, Carlotta Hayes and Carol Burrey, who said she planned to attend the Montpelier rally.
photo by Paul Fixx
Cabot’s Lassie Rathbone (from left) joins speaker Chip Troinao from Walden and Greensboro’s Erika Karp during a No KIngs Day rally at Hardwick’s Peace Park Saturday morning.” Troiano told the crowd that he and others, recently returned from VIetnam, who were assigned to patrol the streets of Washington D.C. arresting rioters following the assination of Dr. Martin Luther King, warned those on the streets of the danger and escorted them home, offering and gaining respect in the process.
photo by Paul Fixx
About 120 protesters in Hardwick march to the downtown business district Saturday, following a rally at the fire station, from which about 75 people left on a school bus and in carpools to join a rally at Vermont’s Montpelier Statehouse. National organizers estimated over 7 million people joined over 2,700 events across the United States of America.
photo by Paul Fixx
A line of marchers reaches as far as the eye can see down Wolcott Street in Hardwick, where a rally at the fire station kicked off local No Kings Day 2 events Saturday. The roughly 120 marchers joined another 165 lining S. Main St. Another 75 or so who left for Montpelier from the fire station, making the 360 people who turned out that day the largest Hardwick street protest in recent memory.
photo by Paul Fixx
Saturday at Hardwick’s Peace Park, Indivisible Hardwick organizer Carlotta Hayes (from left) joins speaker Jeff Pierpont (holding microphone), his wife Christine and Hazen Union School student Will Helms, holding a No Kings sign painted by Grace Hurley. Pierpont said, “Václav Havel — the Czech playwright who became president after leading his country out of a dictatorship — every dictatorship begins to crumble — not with armies or elections, but – when ordinary people refuse to live the lie.”
photo by Paul Fixx
Over 285 people were counted carrying signs, singing and listening to speeches along both sides of Hardwick’s S. Man St. Saturday during the No Kings Day 2 event, joining 2700 other events in Vermont
photo by Paul Fixx

Hayden Sims waves a LGBTQ+ unity flag outside of the Hardwick Fire Station, October 18, for the second No Kings Day 2 protest occurring nationwide this year.
photo by Cathy Rowley
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Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.

Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.

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