{"id":54999,"date":"2025-04-06T00:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=54999"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:45:36","slug":"they-came-by-the-hundreds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/06\/they-came-by-the-hundreds\/","title":{"rendered":"They came by the hundreds – – –"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photos by by Tom Hagerty Photography<\/a>   Click here to see more photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>They came by the hundreds to gather at the north end of Munn Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once they had assembled the signs went up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHands Off Our Future\u201d \u201cImpeach Trump Arrest Musk\u201d and others<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mari\u00a0Marks, the policy manager for the\u00a0Florida branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a>, was a featured speaker at the Saturday rally. She urged the crowd to fight for free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen we say the First Amendment is under attack, we are not being dramatic. Most of the egregious action happening right now in the federal government and the state of Florida leads back to suppression of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marks said people also must resist Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, which she called genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Munn Park rally was part of an organized effort across Florida and the U.S. The web page for the Lakeland edition<\/a> read, \u201cDonald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Polk County, Florida is fighting back!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photos by by Tom Hagerty Photography   Click here to see more photos They came by the hundreds to gather at the north end of Munn Park on Saturday. Once they had… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDRcLzU0NDMyNzEyNTM0XzQzMjBiOWE0NWVfdy53ZWJwP2ZpdD00MDAlMkMyNjcmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJUaGV5IGNhbWUgYnkgdGhlIGh1bmRyZWRzICYjODIxMTsgJiM4MjExOyAmIzgyMTE7IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.DS377q_ODsJO2DzUcHnZrJM726y8fOsh6LxwMNXvymoMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":55008,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/54432712534_4320b9a45e_w.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[11265],"class_list":["post-54999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-they-came-by-the-hundreds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55009,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54999\/revisions\/55009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}