Anchorage is bracing for two days of high-profile demonstrations this week, as political groups take to the streets ahead of and during President Donald Trump’s visit to Alaska.
On Thursday, anti-Trump organizations, led by the Outside-based 50501 group, along with Stand Up Alaska, Alaska Forward, and Alaska March On, will rally along the Seward Highway at the Midtown Mall from 4:30 to 5:30 pm. The event is billed as “Alaska Stands with Ukraine,” described by organizers as a peaceful protest in solidarity with the Eastern European nation.
The 50501 group, a prominent anti-Trump organization, has been publicly praised by US Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Earlier this year, she told public broadcasting listeners: “I think that type of engagement is important and people shouldn’t feel discouraged because, ‘well, I haven’t seen anything change since the last week that I went to go protest.’ Keep the engagement up.” Murkowski has in recent months encouraged Alaskans to protest Trump directly.
The next day, pro-Trump Alaskans plan to claim the same Midtown Mall location. A “President Trump Rally” will be held on Friday, Aug. 15, from 11 am to 1 pm, at the same corner. Supporters are being urged to bring Trump signs, American flags, and “Alaska Republican pride” to show the former president that “Alaska stands strong with him and with our conservative values.” Organizers say they want Midtown Anchorage “filled with a sea of red, white, and blue.”
Meanwhile, another large-scale anti-Trump demonstration is being organized for Friday at the Delaney Park Strip, near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. That protest is expected to draw one of the largest turnouts Anchorage has seen against Trump.
With rival demonstrations planned back-to-back — and on the same day as Trump’s Alaska events — Anchorage can expect a politically charged weekend that will spotlight the patriotic Alaskans and the ones who hate Trump and everything he does.
The paid protesters will be out in force, we should have zero tolerance for violence and property destruction.
You mean just like J6 where the convicted criminals were released by Trump?
Knock yourselves out, commie half-wits. Trump and Putin will never see your hilariously stupid “protest”, because they’ll never leave JBER.
Elections have consequences, you radical leftists.
Go curl up in your space spaces with your binkys.
Brace yourself for 2028, Jeff. Consequences happen.
You are an enemy of the country. All Trump’s disgusting values and morals that you support say a lot about all of you traders. Sexual offenders, thief’s and jan.6ers and you have the nerve to call anybody anything? You all should be hiding in shame. Nobody’s mother’s, good mother’s can be proud of any of that.
If you are an old school Republican, you know history, and why appeasing a gangster dictator like Putin is not okay.
Comrade Putin is a state sponsor of terror. He is a murderer; he has caused the deaths of many Ukrainian children. Tens of thousands of innocent people have been killed by Putin. Nearly a million Russians are now dead or injured. Putin has acted like every other communist dictator- suppress free speech, religion, and kill anyone who gets in their way.
Lets hope these protests detract from the PR/redemption Putin hopes to gain.
This POS is NOT welcome in my state.
I am an old school republican. And I did not fall for left wing propaganda like you did. Putin and ukraine were fine until obiden offered nato entry to zelenski, backed by war mongers in dc. Putin said many times ukraine into nato could not happen. His country would be at risk.this was the same mentality Kennedy had with Cuba. Yet- obiden promoted. Biden started the war. The obiden propaganda machine aided funding. People like you that fell for the propaganda are complicit in thousands of deaths. And you want more? You dont want a stop? You have your opinion but dont include “old school republicans” into your uninformed and immoral position to continue war.
Reagan – Wow, you are woefully ignorant of how this war started or even when it started! Come back when you get up to speed. You’re not a school teacher by any chance?
Fishing, how’s it feel to be on the side of a vile communist, murdering, dictator?
Let me guess, you weren’t alive during the cold war.
Ted, you don’t get much more left wing than a communist, which Putin is. He may be re-branding his sorry butt as something else, but we know his history.
Speaking of history, Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014, in violation of international law, and the treaty Russia was party to- along with the USA- to rid Ukraine of nuclear weapons.
It was Putin who invaded, twice. It was Putin who broke his treaty.
Can you imagine Canada invading the USA because of who we may wish to form an alliance with? Ukraine is a sovereign country, free to partner with whom they wish.
Ted, you sure fell hard for the MAGA propaganda. Still focusing on Biden when the biggest threat to America will TACO in Anchorage
You don’t change, do you?Manny One-note
Reagan met & talked to Gorbachev as I remember.
Did he appease him?
Was President Reagan ignoring all the innocents that were sent to the Gulags?
George, if you know your history, Gorbachev was a reformer. The Berlin wall came down because of Gorbachev. It was Gorbachev who allowed the communist enforced Soviet Union to dissolve, so those nations could be free, Poland, Ukraine, Hungry, E. Germany, etc.
Gorbachev was the best leader, ever.
The gangster Putin wants to take control of the free nations that were part of the Soviet Union, like the good little communist he is. Communists don’t like freedom. They want oppression, death, and control, and not necessarily in that order. Note, Xi, in China.
With the USAID funds being reined in the anti protest have diminished in size significantly.
Go after the paid protesters and the traitors that fund the demostration.
Do you want to restrict the First Amendment?
Believing there are two sides shows ignorance. Republicans and Democrats are in one big club and we’re not in it. Everything you’ve ever been taught is a lie. It’s theatre and we all have been given a front row seat. I walked out of the theater a long time ago. The awakening has been happening and for many they choose to stay in their slumber. Once you see truth you can’t under it.
Sheryl
This isn’t Democrat vs Republican.
This is MAGA vs the Uniparty.
Trump supporters, the ones I know anyway, are just as disgusted with the Republicans (RINOs)as they are with the Democrats (Communists).
Murkowski, you need to go someplace where liberals will accept you as one of theirs, because you sure are!! You back stab Trump continuously so you for sure are no Conservative!!! President Trump is the best President ever in this country and if you can’t support him for that you can go to H*LL!!!
So the Sears Mall Pro-Trump rally is from 11am – 1pm.
And the hippy rally at the P Strip starts at 2pm.
Let’s rumble down on the strip & give our National press something to write home about.
What a long strange trip it’s been! 50 years ago the hippies were protesting war – today they are fascists protesting peace! Project Mockingbird has been wildly successful!
The only difference between an anti Trump rally and a circus is the absence of a juggling clown on a unicycle.
MAGA, do you think your dictator Trump is going to take a hardline with Putin? I hope he does, but, he’s the TACO man.
Dunbar’s choice in a wife shows the stupidity of our government elected.
Shame on her. no RESPECT and ridiculous idiocracy to say such things about anyone let alone the President of the United States!