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[Incumbent]

My wife and I are still thinking it through. We both want to be among the numbers at the main protest downtown this evening, but have concerns about safety (Texas) and logistics. We do have a secure parking option but it would be about a 2 mile walk there and back.

Another option is a recently organized protest in our previous neighborhood, also this evening. It’s urban and densely populated, so turn out should still be strong.

Interested in hearing from others. Are you going? Do you have concerns about going? Other thoughts?

 

[SamAndreas]

I'm not going to go out on the 4th this year, nor did I last year. The fire danger is too great. Last year it was a good thing that stayed home, since I was home, I was able to evacuate from my home out of the path of a huge fire which was caused by fireworks. Wouldn't have wanted to have missed that.

 

[Optimus Prime]

People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administrationand honor the legacy of the late congressman John Lewis, an advocate for voting rights and civil disobedience.

The “Good Trouble Lives On” day of action coincides with the fifth anniversary of Lewis’s death. Lewis was a longtime congressman from Georgia who participated in iconic civil rights actions, including the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 when police attacked Lewis and other protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Lewis implored people to participate in “good trouble, necessary trouble” to advance their causes, and this call serves as the underpinning for the 17 July actions. Dozens of advocacy and civil rights organizations signed on as partners for the event.


In Atlanta, Georgia, one of the main sites for the protest, Lewis’ legacy rang loud as anti-Trump demonstrators marched down the courtyard of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s famed church, Ebenezer Baptist.

“We honor John Lewis’s personal legacy, five years after being called home,” said the Rev Dr Jonathan Jay Augustine, the newly appointed senior pastor of Big Bethel AME church. “He’s someone who gave his life for inclusion and for inclusiveness, and the things he gave his life for are under attack and being eroded away.”

About 1,000 people marched from Big Bethel and the landmark five-story tall mural of Lewis to Ebenezer Baptist, where the Rev Raphael Warnock, a Democratic senator from Georgia, is its senior pastor. Politics and faith are intertwined on Atlanta’s streets and Lewis’ legacy of political protest – and the unique animosity Donald Trumphad for him, and for Atlanta’s fifth district, which Lewis represented – is rarely far from the thoughts expressed by civil rights and voting rights leaders here.

“Today we go to send a message from the birthplace of civil rights to … the one that wants to destroy the Department of Education, the one that wants to deport millions upon millions of people seeking a better life, the one who won’t release the Epstein files, the one who had the nerve to call the fifth district horrible and falling apart,” said Georgia NAACP president Gerald Griggs. “We still have a message for that man. In Georgia, no one is above the law. You still have a court date in the fifth district.”

In downtown Washington, hundreds of people gathered in a park a few blocks from the White House. Some held signs protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and comparing the Trump administration to Nazi Germany.

“Fascism will fall and when it falls, if you were complicit, you will be held accountable,” said Mary Baird, who traveled to Washington Thursday morning from North Carolina to meet with members of Congress before the protest.


In downtown Minneapolis, the theme of “good trouble” punctuated the speeches, with speakers imploring the crowd to follow Lewis’ example and take a stand, even if it gets them in trouble. “Stand up and get in the way,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a lawyer and social justice advocate who also called on the crowd to continue the boycott against Target, the retailer based in Minnesota.…….

Tens of thousands in US set to join ‘Good Trouble’ anti-Trump protests honoring John Lewis

Rallies at more than 1,500 sites nationwide planned for Thursday to protest against Trump administration

www.theguardian.com

 

[LA 2 L.A.]

People across all 50 US states on Thursday are joining marches and rallies at more than 1,500 sites to protest against the Trump administrationand honor the legacy of the late congressman John Lewis, an advocate for voting rights and civil disobedience.

The “Good Trouble Lives On” day of action coincides with the fifth anniversary of Lewis’s death. Lewis was a longtime congressman from Georgia who participated in iconic civil rights actions, including the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 when police attacked Lewis and other protesters on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Lewis implored people to participate in “good trouble, necessary trouble” to advance their causes, and this call serves as the underpinning for the 17 July actions. Dozens of advocacy and civil rights organizations signed on as partners for the event.


In Atlanta, Georgia, one of the main sites for the protest, Lewis’ legacy rang loud as anti-Trump demonstrators marched down the courtyard of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s famed church, Ebenezer Baptist.

“We honor John Lewis’s personal legacy, five years after being called home,” said the Rev Dr Jonathan Jay Augustine, the newly appointed senior pastor of Big Bethel AME church. “He’s someone who gave his life for inclusion and for inclusiveness, and the things he gave his life for are under attack and being eroded away.”

About 1,000 people marched from Big Bethel and the landmark five-story tall mural of Lewis to Ebenezer Baptist, where the Rev Raphael Warnock, a Democratic senator from Georgia, is its senior pastor. Politics and faith are intertwined on Atlanta’s streets and Lewis’ legacy of political protest – and the unique animosity Donald Trumphad for him, and for Atlanta’s fifth district, which Lewis represented – is rarely far from the thoughts expressed by civil rights and voting rights leaders here.

“Today we go to send a message from the birthplace of civil rights to … the one that wants to destroy the Department of Education, the one that wants to deport millions upon millions of people seeking a better life, the one who won’t release the Epstein files, the one who had the nerve to call the fifth district horrible and falling apart,” said Georgia NAACP president Gerald Griggs. “We still have a message for that man. In Georgia, no one is above the law. You still have a court date in the fifth district.”

In downtown Washington, hundreds of people gathered in a park a few blocks from the White House. Some held signs protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and comparing the Trump administration to Nazi Germany.

“Fascism will fall and when it falls, if you were complicit, you will be held accountable,” said Mary Baird, who traveled to Washington Thursday morning from North Carolina to meet with members of Congress before the protest.


In downtown Minneapolis, the theme of “good trouble” punctuated the speeches, with speakers imploring the crowd to follow Lewis’ example and take a stand, even if it gets them in trouble. “Stand up and get in the way,” said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a lawyer and social justice advocate who also called on the crowd to continue the boycott against Target, the retailer based in Minnesota.…….

Tens of thousands in US set to join ‘Good Trouble’ anti-Trump protests honoring John Lewis

Rallies at more than 1,500 sites nationwide planned for Thursday to protest against Trump administration

www.theguardian.com

Sucks that this is the first I heard of it. Where's that damn Doctor and his TARDIS when you need them?