(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), whose Members are prime victims of President Donald Trump’s shutdown, furloughs and looming firings, are striking back: They’re asking Members and supporters to join the next round of No Kings Day protests, which are scheduled for Saturday (October 18th).

Since AFGE Members are scattered all over the U.S. - 85% live outside the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore-Northern Virginia area, and in Europe, too - they’ll have a lot of No Kings events to choose from.

AFGE President Everett Kelley said: “Shutting down the Government is another authoritarian power grab by this Administration, which has threatened to lay off mass numbers of furloughed Workers as part of an ongoing quest to gut Federal programs and services the Administration finds objectionable.”

There are 1,650 events scheduled everywhere from Alaska to Hawaii to Florida to Maine - and in Paris, France, plus Venice, Rome and Turin, Italy, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, Canada, Reykjavik, Iceland, and Melbourne, Australia.

There’s a U.S. Airbase in Reykjavik, with Civilian Workers, and AFGE Members in Rome too.

There will be at least eight marches, one labeled Remove the Regime in the D.C. area, and at least eight more in New York City, including at Morningside Heights, Broadway and 47th Street, Forest Hills and Riverdale. 

One of the many marches in the Chicago suburbs will pass in front of the controversial ICE Detention Center on Beach Street in Broadview.

There are three marches in Chicago so far: In Grant Park, Unity Park and at 103rd Street and Western Avenue.

The marches are occurring as Trump furloughed 750,000 “Non-Essential” Federal Workers as a result of the Trump-GOP shutdown of much of the Federal Government.

Trump told reporters last week that if and when any of those Workers return, they might not get back pay. 

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