Carrie Bowie

“We gather in grief. We gather in community. We gather in hope,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy.

“We want to honor and humanize the lives that were taken by ICE – have been taken by ICE – and to highlight the fact that we want this to stop,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy, which is organizing the event.

South Bend’s rally is scheduled to start at noon at Jon Hunt Memorial Plaza near the Morris Performing Arts Center. Elkhart’s No Kings protest begins Saturday morning at 10:00 at the Civic Plaza on Main Street. Events are also planned in Niles, Cassopolis, LaPorte, Plymouth, Warsaw and Benton Harbor, according to NoKings.org.