Senior citizens to protest in Coral Gables alongside ‘No Kings’ demonstrations
A group of senior citizens will take to the streets on Saturday to participate in a day of protest.
Residents from Belmont Village Senior Living in Coral Gables will rally from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Le Jeune Road and Altara Avenue.
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Though not officially registered under the No Kings movement — with organizers Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union and 50501 — the group is focused on similar issues, including Medicare, Medicaid and immigration.
These issues “are the things that encourage me to try instead of sitting around at dinner time complaining about what’s going on in the country,” said Judith Rosenbaum, the 84-year-old Belmont Village resident who organized the event. “We needed to do something.”
Rosenbaum is a retired administrator for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the widow of Florida International University public administration professor Allan Rosenbaum, who says political activism “runs in my blood.”
She hopes to give older people like herself a chance to participate despite mobility issues and health complications.
Instead of marching, the residents, with several participants over 90, will have wheelchairs and walkers to help and they will stay under the shade of Coral Gables’ tree-lined streets while waving signs with sayings like “Seniors Support Democracy.”
“We can’t go to big crowds,” Rosenbaum said. “I would say that probably 60% of the people here in Belmont Village use a walker. That makes large protests inaccessible to seniors.”
But there’s no age limit for the event. That means if you’re younger than a senior citizen, no one will turn you away.
She noted the lack of No Kings demonstrations near Coral Gables as a potential draw for those who can’t make it to protests in Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach, downtown Miami and the Florida Keys.
Also joining the protesters will be a handful of members from Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami, Rosenbaum said. About 100 people are expected and those who plan to go are encouraged to bring water and sunscreen to beat the Miami heat, with Saturday’s afternoon highs in the upper-80s
This story was originally published June 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM.
