Three Rallies Set for Riverhead Saturday as No Kings 3 Day of Action Arrives

Riverhead is going all-out for No Kings 3 on Saturday, with a two-mile march and two separate rallies planned as part of what organizers project will be the largest single-day protest in American history.

The centerpiece march begins at noon at Riverhead High School at 700 Harrison Avenue, led by Riverhead and Greenport students who organized anti-ICE walkouts from their high schools in January. The march will go from the high school to Town Hall and then to the Suffolk County Supreme Court at 235 Griffing Avenue, with a culminating rally at 1:30 p.m. Indivisible Long Island is also organizing a separate rally at the Riverhead County Center, at 300 Center Drive in Riverside, starting at 9 a.m.

Riverhead coordinator John McAuliff, who was named the Riverhead News-Review's Person of the Year in 2023, said people in the community are "especially motivated to protest by the outrageous mass deportation attacks by ICE on the East End, destroying peaceful family lives of immigrants with no criminal records and threatening the local economy." McAuliff also said the Trump administration's military operations in Venezuela and Iran amount to a "violation of U.S. and international law."

Allison Kanas of Indivisible Long Island, which is co-organizing Saturday's events, framed the day in broader terms. "We must stand up together and show that kindness still matters, that doing the right thing still matters," she said. "My ReSisters have proved to me that when women unite around a shared purpose we are unstoppable, even when it means challenging the old way of doing things."

The Riverhead actions are part of a sweeping day of mobilization across the East End and the nation. Local organizers are holding No Kings 3 events in Riverhead, Hampton Bays, Greenport, Sag Harbor and East Hampton. The Hampton Bays event, organized by Indivisible Long Island, will run from noon to 2 p.m. on Montauk Highway between The Atrium and Good Ground Cemetery, and will include an optional march to Ponquogue Avenue and back. A separate 40-mile march will also take place Saturday, starting at 5 a.m. in Montauk and ending in Hampton Bays at 8 p.m.

Nathalie Marie Alenski, a co-organizer of the Hampton Bays and County Center rallies, said: "I have been blessed in my journey to be able to join hands with wonderful women these past several months and continue a path of friendship, unity and solidarity."

Nationally, organizers are planning over 3,000 local events, more than any previous No Kings mobilization. Last June, more than five million people took to the streets across more than 2,100 events during the coalition's first day of action, followed by more than seven million people protesting across more than 2,700 events last October. McAuliff has cited the October figure as "the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history."

The No Kings movement began in June 2025 as a series of rallies coinciding with a military parade held on President Donald Trump's birthday. The national organization describes the movement as having grown from "a single day of defiance" into "a sustained national resistance to tyranny," adding that "No Kings is a nonviolent national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration."

More information on all East End No Kings events is available at nokings.org.