Calling Up Justice Holds Digital Space for Accessible Civic Engagement During NO KINGS Actions
On June 14, 2025, Calling Up Justice activated our Digital Encampment and livestream channels as part of the national NO KINGS protest actions—a decentralized day of resistance against oligarchy, ableism, and authoritarianism. As always, we centered accessibility, connection, and creativity in how we showed up. https://www.nokings.org/
Throughout the day, our team served as a digital hub, helping our community plug into livestreams from on-the-ground protests and virtual actions happening across the country. We guided participants to powerful livestreams on TikTok from Wichita, Memphis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and more. We tuned in together to YouTube broadcasts from Roland Martin Unfiltered, witnessing powerful coverage of national protest movements.
On Zoom, we joined 562 participants for a session hosted by organizers in Malone, NY, and engaged with a disability rights group in Denver. We screen-shared these events into our GatherTown Digital Encampment, where community members could tune in, talk back, and connect in real-time. New and old friends showed up—from Portland to Atlanta to England—turning this virtual space into a global gathering.
Throughout the day, we held conversations in the TikTok chats, Zoom rooms, and the Digital Encampment itself. We heard testimonials from community members, witnessed dialogues about technology, politics, human rights, and co-created a space for witness and action that did not require physical presence to be powerful.
Later in the day, we transitioned into care. The NO KINGS: Yoga & Social Justice Radical Rest session welcomed folks to slow down, breathe, and reflect. With 359 participants, including many who had attended in-person protests earlier in the day, we rested together. We practiced resistance that doesn’t demand performance—just presence. The decolonized yoga practice helped us regulate physically, the quiet journaling helped us regulate mentally. This final gathering was a reminder that rest is not retreat—it is a radical part of movement work.
Digital Encampment as Civic Action
Calling Up Justice is committed to offering accessible pathways for civic engagement—especially for those unable to protest in person due to disability, caregiving responsibilities, safety concerns, or systemic exclusion. Our Digital Encampment is open every day and includes opportunities to sign petitions, share resources, and connect with others taking action.
On June 14, we supported three core digital protest events from our all-hands digital deck:
- NO KINGS / NO OLIGARCHS – Malone, NY
- NO KINGS: Yoga & Social Justice Radical Rest
- NO KINGS – Denver: Disabled & Differently Abled
We’re proud to be part of a movement that knows disabled folks deserve the right to protest too—and that justice must always be accessible.
Keep Plugging In
The movement doesn’t end when the livestream ends. Our GatherTown holds up to 50 people and remains open for organizing, witnessing, and rest. Come through. Bring your community. Stay in the work. Take Care.
NO KINGS. NO OLIGARCHS. NO EXCLUSIONS.
We attended the Indivisible organizers training and really appreciated their action guidelines which we will share here.
