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(NewsNation) — As President Donald Trump celebrates the Fourth of July with plans to motion his "big, beauteous bill" into law, more than 150 "Free America" protests are scheduled nationwide.
The demonstrations are aimed astatine Trump and his policies — including massive deportation sweeps, ICE raids, sweeping tariffs and, astir recently, the deep cuts successful societal services and health care successful his recently-passed megabill.
Protests combat against 'decimation of our rights': Organizer
Women's March, the organizer down this movement, has called connected radical everyplace to articulation oregon big events against Trump's policies.
The radical had organized the Women’s March connected Washington successful 2017, the time aft Trump’s archetypal inauguration. This year’s events volition scope from low-key cookware lucks to rallies successful ample cities.
Tamika Middleton, the main governmental and strategy serviceman for Women's March, told NewsNation the existent medication is "running unsmooth changeable implicit full swaths of our community."
"We are truly successful the enactment and successful the concern of lasting unneurotic and warring against what we spot arsenic a implicit decimation of our rights and our freedoms successful this country," Middleton said.
Fourth of July celebrations canceled successful California
Several communities successful the Los Angeles country person canceled Independence Day festivities owed to information concerns implicit Trump administration’s migration crackdown.
The Los Angeles vicinity of El Sereno cancelled its parade aft 90% of participants dropped out, the Associated Press reported.
Organizer Genny Guerrero said the bulk Latino assemblage is “very patriotic.” But galore radical are avoiding events retired of fearfulness of migration agents.
“The information that they’re taking anyone that is brown, careless of citizenship, that puts everyone successful jeopardy,” Guerrero said.
More nationwide protests scheduled for July 17
The Independence Day demonstrations are acold from the archetypal against Trump and his administration's actions.
On Flag Day, besides Trump's birthday, millions of radical took to the streets for a time of defiance arsenic portion of "No Kings" protests.
Another time of nationwide protests is planned for July 17, erstwhile "Good Trouble Lives On" demonstrations are planned.
Organizers said those events are meant to grant the precocious Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and respond to "attacks posed connected our civilian and quality rights by the Trump administration."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
