NATIONWIDE — Opponents of President Trump will rally across the nation on Monday, President's Day.

The protests are being referred to as "Not My President's Day." 

The bigger ones are scheduled in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and in Austin.

  • In Los Angeles, activists plan a 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. protest outside City Hall.
  • In Austin, from noon to 3 p.m. at on the State Capitol's south steps.
  • In New York City, over 13,000 Facebook users say they plan to join a noon protest Monday near Manhattan’s Central Park.
  • In Chicago, 3,700 people have indicated on Facebook that they will join Monday’s noon rally across the Chicago River from the Trump Tower and another 16,000 say they are interested in the event.

Statement from the Austin rally event page:

In solidarity and unity with partner demonstrations throughout this country, we are proud to stage in Austin, TX a rally to protest the policies and actions of the current White House. While Donald Trump may currently occupy that White House, we protest fiercely on this important day – in honor of the Presidents who have come before him – his ability or intention to represent any of us in any real capacity.

Donald Trump does not represent our values, and therefore we refuse to honor him on President's Day. Instead, we will honor the principles of democracy for which our previous Presidents believed in valiantly: the right to assemble, and the right to fight for those of our brothers and sisters who have not yet been included in the word "equal." We will use our voices and our power of protest to continue to RESIST our current administration’s efforts to divide us!

  • We come together in unity. We demonstrate our commitment to human rights for all individuals, as exemplified by Austin's diversity. In stark contrast, Trump intentionally has targeted the Muslim community, blocking immigrants and visa holders from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US, banned federal funds to international group that perform abortions or lobby to legalize or promote abortions, and purged the White House website of information pertaining to police brutality and LGBTQ rights.

  • We come together in unity. Instead, Trump wants to encourage us to turn on each other, to isolate our country, to build a wall with our tax money, to abandon refugees as well as a century of progress toward inclusion

  • We come together in unity, embracing difference. Instead, Trump has offended practically every global leader with whom he has met. With zero foreign policy experience, Trump’s decisions have not only caused tensions with global leaders, but we have lost Navy SEALS, he has caused the death of children during our military action, and his reckless inexperienced has caused the death of “numerous” civilians.

  • We come together in unity, seeking to work together. Instead, Trump works to divide us further with his lies. For instance, he promised job creation, yet within his first week he instituted a massive hiring freeze throughout the federal government. Services like the VA are already stretched thin and these freezes will force a breaking point.

  • We come together in unity, as citizens of a free nation, whose ancestors have fought and bled and died to keep that nation free. Instead, Trump has allowed, perhaps even encouraged, the interference by hostile foreign entities in our election process, and in our government, in acts that may even reveal themselves to be outright acts of treason. He has insulted the American people while lauding foreign dictators.

  • These policies and actions will not stop, so our resistance must continue. Progress only is possible if we persist and resist.

  • Donald Trump stands against the progress we have worked hard to enact. He does not represent our interests. He was elected by a minority of the American public but governs as if there's no resistance. But there is - and on February 20th, we will honor previous presidents by exercising our constitutional right to assemble and to protest peacefully against everything that Donald Trump represents.

  • Join us as we continue to build a resistance of unity to the Trump regime of bigotry, racism and sexism, and to show the world that while Trump may have been elected President, this is (NOT MY) Presidents Day!