Oak Park’s most senior residents at Brookdale Senior Living have joined in volunteering to support the March 28 “No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns” event at Scofield Park, 1-3 p.m., with a march along Lake Street to Harlem Avenue. We may be old (average age 86+), but we still want to make our mark on and support what’s happening in our country today.
The event will be part of literally thousands of similar gatherings all across the country that day. Like the last No Kings march in October, when 7 million Americans gathered in protest of Donald Trump and his miscreants in Washington D.C., events here in Chicago, Minnesota, and elsewhere have built momentum for even greater protests in advance of the 2026 midterm Congressional elections. We seniors want our voice heard and we want to help younger generations by supporting change.
Silence is not an option. Being old is not an excuse for not making our voices heard. We need to defend ourselves and our communities from this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence. So on March 28, we plan to rise up as best as we can, many of us with canes and walkers, wheelchairs and, with aides supporting us, plan to take to the streets, and say it loud: No thrones, No crowns, No kings!
We’re not watching history happen — we’re making it! We hope many more Oak Parkers and River Foresters will join us.
Jeanné Schulte Matthews
Oak Park
