>> As President Trump marks his birthday with a massive military parade in DC organizers in Chicago and around the country are pushing back.

Demonstrators plan to gather in Daly Plaza at noon on Saturday for one of many so-called no Kings events with activists rally against immigration enforcement and other federal policies.

Dozens of other gatherings are planned across Chicagoland from neighborhoods like South Chicago and Edgewater to suburbs like Evanston and Schomberg.

Joining us now with more are 2 of the groups organizing the demonstration, Kathy fallen and a visible Chicago's board president and Ed Young Cook Communications and public policy director at the ACLU of Illinois.

Welcome both of you to Chicago tonight.

Kathy, what are the groups putting his demonstration together?

Want to counteract the message of Saturday's parade in DC.

>> We are facing national crisis that is only growing every day.

It seems on days like today that it's growing every hour.

All right.

The president has weaponized the military against the American people.

Ice agents are terrorizing and kidnapping and disappearing.

Our neighbors and the president and his administration continue to work to undermine democracy.

That's what's happening while the military parade is happening in in Washington, in Chicago and around the country on Saturday, we have the opportunity to stand up and say no out.

We are not a country with a king.

We are not a country we're not a country where chaos and and cruelty rain.

We're not a country in service of billionaires.

We are a country of laws and lost in service of the people.

And that's why we are gathering Saturday to say.

No kings.

>> But you know, and there was a lot of conversation about what a lot of people called the resistance during the first Trump administration.

Do you think those forces are as active during this go around?

>> I think they really are waking up and becoming more active each and every day as Kathy said, you know, every time you see, you know, mask heavily armed agents careening through our streets and sweeping people up in kidnapping them when the president is cutting funding to things like head start, you know, when you look at the kinds of policies that are targeting transgender folks, people are recognizing the reality that today this week he's targeting those people next week.

It could be all of us.

And I think you're starting to see a coal less saying around this.

You see it in the polls and I think you're beginning to see it in actions like Saturday.

You know, that list of communities across just Chicago land is really impressive in terms of people wanting to come out and reject this kind of authoritarianism.

What you know, that this Saturday's protest follows a week of demonstrations against immigration enforcement.

Both here and around the country.

Here's some of what local advocates had to say earlier today.

>> We cannot allow the Trump administration to continue to need also hotel.

individuals detained state.

I wasn't even have those faces to hold that many people.

medical They have no humanity or and order.

>> And we also learned this week, Chicago is one of the cities expected to be targeted for heightened immigration enforcement.

You know, Ed, what kind of work can you do with immigrant communities to prepare for that?

So I think there's a couple of things.

The first thing is is is, you know, the the groups like Oak had a nicer who held that press conference today have done such a great job of really educating a broad swath of people about their rights.

So they're ready to prepare.

But the second thing is, is that what's really I think important now is that all of us from every community watch what's happening to our neighbors and our friends and our co-workers and be prepared to speak out to demand that our federal officials provide oversight of this process to ensure that, you know, our local officials are doing everything to follow the Illinois Trust Act.

That was the you know, that was the subject of that high.

Circus act today in in Washington, D.C., Sure, you know, Kathy, there's been some media coverage of clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement here in Chicago as well as in L a do you think this represent a majority of the demonstrations?

>> Oh, absolutely not.

And I would say the individual, Chicago and all of our our 60 plus partner organizations sponsoring the rally on Saturday are committed to nonviolence.

We are committed We committed to nonviolence and we are preparing to work to ensure the safety people who attend.

And we take we take safety very seriously.

We teams of trained and experienced safety marshals.

And we know that the Chicago Police Department also be there to protect our our right to protest.

You it at something about this.

You know, I I hear this.

I see the headlines about, you know, the outbreaks you know, some limited amounts of violence in cities like L a.

>> You know, I relish having that conversation.

If I weren't having it with someone who pardoned the people who beat police officers on January 6, it is really ridiculous that we're responding to what Donald Trump thinks ought to be peaceful protest when that's what he's forgiven.

So I think this idea that somehow protest is dangerous has really grown up in a way that's really precarious.

I will tell you, having been number of these, you know, you see people there with their families with children in strollers with, you know, multi generations together because they're just fed up with what this guy's doing.

And that's what Saturday will feel like.

All right.

Well, I'm sure there will be a lot of eyes on