Tampa Bay to join No Kings protests set for Saturday

• The Twin Cities will serve as the flagship event, according to organizers, with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen scheduled to perform or speak.

Context: Minneapolis was thrust into the center of the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign this year after immigration officers fatally shot two U.S. citizens.

• Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE officer in January, just weeks before Border Patrol officers shot Alex Pretti.

State of play: Immigration will certainly be a rallying cry for many protesters, especially in cities like Chicago, Charlotte, and New Orleans, where ICE and Border Patrol conducted vast, seemingly random sweeps of immigrants.

• The war in Iran will also be driving people to the streets, the main organizers of Indivisible said on social media.

Zoom in: No Kings has mapped several events across Tampa Bay, including in St. Petersburg, Tampa, as far north as Brooksville and as far south as Venice.

Flashback: More than 5 million people participated in thousands of events last June for the inaugural No Kings events, organizers said.

• Participation swelled to 7 million for October's protest.
• Organizers are promoting Saturday's No Kings Day actions as one of the largest single-day nonviolent protests in U.S. history.