7 Events Planned for San Diego County; National Walk Out of Work, School and Commerce
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.
On January 20 at 2 PM local time, we will walk out of work, school, and commerce. We will withhold our labor, our participation, and our consent. A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate. This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.
In San Diego, protesters will rally at San Diego’s Waterfront Park at the County Admin Building.
Here are events planned for San Diego County today, January 20:
San Diego Free America Walkout
January 20, 2026
2:00 pm — 5:00 pm PST
Waterfront Park
1600 Pacific Highway , San Diego, CA, 92101
San Diego Lincoln high school
2:00 pm — 5:00 pm PST
Lincoln high school
4777 Imperial Avenue, San Diego, CA, 92113
National City, CA Free America Walkout
2:00 pm — 5:00 pm PST
1200 Highland Ave
1200 Highland Avenue, National City, CA, 91950
San Diego Congressman Scott Peters’ Office Free America W…
2:30 pm — 5:00 pm PST
4350 Executive Dr suite 105
San Diego, CA, 92121
EL CAJON Jan 20 WALKOUT! ICE OUT!
2:00 pm — 6:00 pm PST
The Home Depot
298 Fletcher Parkway, El Cajon, CA, 92020
Encinitas Free America Walkout
3:30 pm — 5:30 pm PST
El Camino Real/ Encinitas 4 Corners
Encinitas, CA
Escondido Free America Walkout
2:00 pm — 3:30 pm PST
Escondido City Hall
201 N. Broadway, Escondido, CA, 92025
Solidarity Free America Walkout
12:00 am — 11:59 pm EST
Virtual Event
1,936 Attendees
Walk out. Tune in. Stand up: The Rallyroom …
11:00 am — 12:00 pm PST
Virtual Event
1,681 Attendees
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well. 2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first. On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable. ? We walk away from fascism. ? ? We walk towards a Free America. ? ? We fight for a future that belongs to us all. ? ? Everybody in, nobody out. ? ? Welcome to the Free America Walkout ?
WALKOUT FOR OUR FREEDOMS
WEAR RED, WHITE, & BLUE
“We will be ungovernable”: Resistance 2.0 pivots to disruption
By April Rubin / Axios / Jan. 19, 2026
Mass movements against the Trump administration are poised to take a different form in year two: more disruptive and potentially more violent.
Why it matters: Tens of thousands of Americans are expected to participate in walkouts on Tuesday, the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration, setting the stage for what future resistance could look like.
“The vanguard in this are starting to think about how … one day, peaceful, legally permitted marches are not enough to push back” against the administration, Dana Fisher, a professor at American University’s School of International Service, said.
“And they’re starting to think through what types of tactics are ones that people are comfortable with and would be willing and open to participating in to expand the toolbox.”
Driving the news: To mark the second year of Trump’s term, people are encouraged to walk out of work, school and commerce on Jan. 20 at 2pm local time as part of the “Free America” protest.
“A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate,” the movement’s website said. “This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.”
About 790 Free America events were planned as of Monday afternoon, with more than 37,500 RSVPs.
The White House did not immediately respond to Axios’ request for comment.
“Our folks want to do more than just mass mobilization,” said Tamika Middleton, the managing director of Women’s March, which organized the walkout. “They want to actually say that we withdraw our consent from what is happening” in this administration.
Tuesday’s protests follow several high-profile events in Minnesota after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. Those protests prompted Trump to threaten to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act, though he said Friday that there is currently “no reason” to do so.
The big picture: Last year, protest turnout peaked at 7 million people during second No Kings rally in October. Future protests could see 12 million participants, or about 3.5% of the U.S. population, per the Center for American Progress.
3.5% of a population is considered the point at which it’s difficult for governments to ignore calls for change, Harvard Kennedy School research shows.
Friction point: “I don’t think that there is an intervention that will have the MAGA regime see the error of its ways,” Rachel O’Leary Carmona, Women’s March executive director, said.
“I do think there are interventions that demonstrate the political, electoral and financial cost of authoritarianism in our communities, and those are the things that we have to be focused on.”
State of play: Anti-Trump protests in 2025 were largely peaceful, despite the president and some allies stoking fears of violence and insisting — without providing evidence — that protesters were paid.
Preliminary survey data shared exclusively with Axios by Fisher shows an increase in protesters who are open to political violence.
As of Jan. 16, 34% of those polled agreed that Americans “may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”
That’s up 11 percentage points from protesters surveyed at the October No Kings protest, and slightly down from a peak of 40% at the June No Kings protest.
“Only so many more people [can] get murdered in front of cameras who are peaceful protesters in cities at the hands of ICE before there are going to be some folks in the streets who feel like peaceful non-violence is not enough,” Fisher said.
From Women’s March San Diego:
On January 20th, we’re taking part in a nationwide Walk Out & Walk-In to demand that Congress impeach, convict, and remove Donald Trump.
Only Congress has the power to act. Our job is to show up and make it impossible to ignore.
2:00 PM WALK OUT
Step out wherever you are (work, school, home, anywhere).
3:00–5:00 PM WALK-IN
Go to your local congressional office to peacefully protest. Find your office: national-day-of-lobbying.netlify.app
Show up. Bring friends. Be counted.
In Solidarity,
Women’s March San Diego
womensmarchsd.org
Go for those of us who can’t. The disabled and the folks that care for us who simply cannot stop or fight.
Now that the democrats love criminals and hate Americans and God the founding fathers gave us the second amendment because of the communist democrats so it’s time to eliminate all of them
Can you believe this? This is the type of mentality shown among ICE agents in Minneapolis – and elsewhere. Somebody needs to put some good religion in ol’ Danny’s soul — or common sense.
Poor danny watches 20 hours of FOX a day and has a hard time telling reality from trump/GOP fiction.
Danny doesn’t even try.
I may be a caveman but I don’t live in the past . This lefty has plenty of ammo too , to protect against right wing lunatics . It looks like “ the south will rise again” but that is only because shit floats
News:
As Tuesday marks one year into President Donald Trump’s second term, more than 44,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,200 walkouts across the country in protest against the administration.
The Women’s March Network, the largest feminist nonprofit in the United States, is organizing the “Free America” walkout nationwide on Jan. 20 at 2 p.m. local time. The protest will take place on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.
“One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent,” Women’s March said on the walkout’s website. “A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate. This is not a request. This is a rupture. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.”
The nonprofit network spotlighted events happening in Washington, D.C., Houston and Oklahoma City.
There are 7 events planned for today throughout San Diego County. They’re listed in the article.
GO HOME AND QUIT WAIST HARD WORKING PEOPLES TIME
If you are going to use all caps, at least use proper grammar and spelling.