Tens of thousands in US set to join ‘Good Trouble’ anti-Trump protests honoring John Lewis | US news
On Thursday, people in 50 US states participate in walks and rallies in more than 1,500 areas to protest against the Trump administration and to honor the legacy of Late Congress Member John Lewis, an advocate of voting and civil disobedience.
“Having a good problem” Action Day coincides with the fifth anniversary of Lewis’s death. Lewis has been a congress for a long time from Georgia, who participated in the iconic civil rights actions in which Police attacked Lewis and other protesters on Edmund Pettus Bridge, including the march from Selma in 1965, in 1965.
Lewis encouraged people to participate in the “good problem, necessary problem ve to advance their causes, and this call forms the basis of July 17 actions. Duzine advocacy and civil rights establishment partners for the event.
Georgia, one of the main sites for the protest, stole loudly as the legacy of Lewis in Atlanta, anti -Trump demonstrators, Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s famous church Ebenezer Baptist.
“We honor John Lewis’s personal heritage after being called a home,” he said. “He is a person who gives his life for coverage and inclusion, and what he gives life is under attack and worn.”
Approximately 1000 people marched to Ebenezer Baptist, a senior chair of the Democratic Senator from Georgia, the turning point of Big Bethel and Landmark Lewis. Politics and faith in the streets of Atlanta and Lewis’s political protest legacy – and Donald Trump’s unique hostility for him and in the fifth region represented by Lewis – rarely far from the thoughts expressed by civil rights and voting rights leaders.
Georgia NaACP President Galggs, “Today from the birth of civil rights” the Ministry of Education who wants to destroy the Ministry of Education, looking for a better life, Epstein files, Epstein files that will not release and will not leave a message that wants to deport, “he said. “We still have a message for that man. No one in Georgia is above the law. You still have a court history in the fifth region.”
In Washington city center, hundreds of people gathered in a park a few blocks away from the White House. Some organized signs that protested migration and customs sanctions (ICE) and compared Trump administration with Nazi Germany.
Mary Baird, who traveled to Washington to Washington on Thursday morning to meet with the congress members on Thursday morning before the protest, said, “When fascism would fall and fall, you would be responsible if you were a criminal partner.”
On Thursday, the nationwide events were inspired by civil rights leaders such as Lewis, which showed the power of collective action. website says.
“Therefore, since the passing of Congress Member John Lewis, communities around the country will go to the streets, courtes and community areas to advance the struggle for justice, voting rights and dignity.”
Organizers before the events of Thursday, tens of thousands of people expect to emerge in small towns, suburbs and cities, the last street protests distributed throughout the country to oppose Trump in every corner of the United States. In June, no king attracted a few million people in one of the largest protests in the US history in June. The events on Thursday will probably be smaller because they are on weekdays.
Chicago, Atlanta, St Louis, Annapolis and Oakland with additional main sites on Thursday evening will host the flagship event of the day. Activities include rallies, walks, candlelight seizures, food drivers, direct action training, teaching and voter registration drivers.
Among the demands of the protest, an end to the pressure of the Trump administration on civil rights, including the right to protest and voting rights; The target of black and brown Americans, immigrants and trans people; and the interruption of social programs such as Medicaid and the additional nutrition aid program (SNAP), known as “food stamps ında in the common language.
“One of the things that John Lewis always says, if you see something wrong, do not say anything, do something, do you have an obligation to do something,” he said. “July 17 is about it – seeing things in this nation, seeing the affected things, seeing the inaccurate things. We should stand up and say something.”
