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(NewsNation) — More than 1,600 protests are planned crossed the state Thursday against President Donald Trump’s policies, including mass deportation efforts and projected Medicaid cuts.
The events are portion of a nationwide time of enactment dubbed “Good Trouble Lives On,” successful grant of the precocious congressman and civilian rights person John Lewis. Demonstrations are expected to instrumentality spot astatine courthouses, on streets and successful different nationalist spaces. Organizers person urged participants to stay peaceful.
Public Citizen, a nonprofit enactment known for its efforts to antagonistic firm influence, is among the conjugation of groups starring the protests.
Chicago volition service arsenic the flagship metropolis for the time of protest. Demonstrators are expected to rally downtown Thursday afternoon, culminating successful a candlelight vigil to grant Lewis.
Major protests are planned successful Atlanta and St. Louis, arsenic good arsenic Oakland, California, and Annapolis, Maryland.
Protesting Trump's ICE, Medicaid policies
Much of the pushback successful Trump’s 2nd word has focused connected immigration enforcement.
Last week, protesters clashed with national authorities during wide arrests astatine 2 marijuana farms successful Southern California. One farmworker died aft falling from a greenhouse extortion during a raid.
Those raids followed Trump's deployment of the National Guard to enactment migration operations successful Los Angeles and support national buildings successful the aftermath of protests there. Thousands marched successful Los Angeles connected June 8, and days later, millions participated successful "No Kings" protests from New York to San Francisco. Many demonstrators had labeled Trump arsenic a dictator and a "would-be king."
Honoring civilian rights person John Lewis
Lewis was archetypal elected to Congress successful 1986. He died successful 2020 astatine the property of 80 pursuing an precocious pancreatic crab diagnosis.
He was the youngest and past subsister of the Big Six civilian rights activists, a radical led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1965, a 25-year-old Lewis led immoderate 600 protesters successful the Bloody Sunday march crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge successful Selma, Alabama. Lewis was beaten by police, suffering a skull fracture.
Within days, King led much marches successful the state, and President Lyndon Johnson pressed Congress to walk the Voting Rights Act that aboriginal became law.
“Get successful bully trouble, indispensable trouble, and redeem the psyche of America,” Lewis said successful 2020 portion commemorating the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
