Disappeared in America :: June 26 :: National Day of Action

Disappeared in America

The Faces of Trump's Immigration Dragnet

Across the United States, families—some with legal status, others still navigating a broken system—are being detained, disappeared, or deported without warning. The stories featured on this site are not just data points or headlines. These are true stories of over a thousand people that capture one of the darkest moments in American history.

Disappeared in America :: June 26

Disappeared in America Visual Action

a national day of action to stand up for the rule of law and confront the Trump administration’s illegal abductions, detentions, and deportations of people like Mahmoud Khalil, Andry Romero, and Elsy Berrios.

On Thursday, June 26th, we’re showing up at federal buildings, courthouses and town squares across the country to say: in America, we don’t let the government disappear people. That’s not who we are.

a national photo petition day where people will take photos with posters of those who have been disappeared and flood social media with the truth using the hashtags

#DisappearedInAmerica

#DisappearedByTrump

#AbductedByTrump

Shorthand Stories

Northeast & Mid-Atlantic

Midwest

South & Southeast

West & Southwest

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Good Trouble Lives On :: July 17 :: Ohio - Wisconsin

On July 17th, March in Peace. Act in Power

Good Trouble Lives On

is a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration. Together, we’ll remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. 

The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis used the phrase "good trouble" in December 2019, when speaking at the Library of Congress' opening exhibition of "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words."

“Rosa Parks inspired us to get in trouble. And I’ve been getting in trouble ever since,” Lewis said. “She inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble,” 

OHIO

Columbus

Fremont

Van Wert

OKLAHOMA

Tulsa

OREGON

Ashland

Hood River Virtual

PENNSYLVANIA

Indiana

Pittsburgh

Reading

Stroudsburg

Williamsport

SOUTH DAKOTA

Rapid City

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga

Knoxville

TEXAS

Austin

Katy

Longview

Montgomery County

Stephenville

UTAH

Salt Lake City

VIRGINIA

Charlottesville

Williamsburg

Roanoke Virtual

WASHINGTON STATE

Cathlamet

Vancouver

WISCONSIN

Green Bay

Madison

Good Trouble Lives On :: July 17 :: Illinois - New York

On July 17th, March in Peace. Act in Power

Good Trouble Lives On

is a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration. Together, we’ll remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. 

The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis used the phrase "good trouble" in December 2019, when speaking at the Library of Congress' opening exhibition of "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words."

“Rosa Parks inspired us to get in trouble. And I’ve been getting in trouble ever since,” Lewis said. “She inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble,” 

ILLINOIS

Bolingbrook

Buffalo Grove

Joliet

Macomb

Schaumburg

INDIANA

Columbus

KENTUCKY

Lexington

MASSACHUSETTS

Provincetown

Longmeadow I91 Overpass Visibility

Boston Virtual

MARYLAND

Silver Spring Virtual

MAINE

Auburn

MICHIGAN

Livonia

MISSOURI

Kansas City

Springfield

St. Louis

MISSISSIPPI

Jackson

Vicksburg

NORTH CAROLINA

Greensboro

Lexington

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dover

NEW MEXICO

Alamogordo

Albuquerque

Las Cruces

Taos

NEVADA

North Las Vegas

NEW YORK

Beacon

Buffalo

Ithaca

Mamaroneck

Seneca Falls

Syracuse

Good Trouble Lives On :: July 17 :: Alabama - Georgia

On July 17th, March in Peace. Act in Power

Good Trouble Lives On

is a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration. Together, we’ll remind them that in America, the power lies with the people. 

The late U.S. Rep. John Lewis used the phrase "good trouble" in December 2019, when speaking at the Library of Congress' opening exhibition of "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words."

“Rosa Parks inspired us to get in trouble. And I’ve been getting in trouble ever since,” Lewis said. “She inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble,” 

ALABAMA

Birmingham

Center Point

CALIFORNIA

Bakersfield

Carlsbad

Carpinteria

Fontana

Fremont

Half Moon Bay

Hayward

Mariposa

Mendocino

Monterey

Palm Springs

Petaluma

Rancho Cucamonga

Santa Clarita

Santa Rosa

Ventura

West Hollywood

COLORADO

Fairplay

Golden

Denver Virtual

FLORIDA

Clermont

Coral Springs

East Naples

Melbourne

Miami

Palm Coast

GEORGIA

Atlanta

Brunswick

Savannah

Waynesboro

Juneteenth National Independence Day

Juneteenth National Independence Day

Juneteenth marks our country’s second independence day. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to most Americans.

The Juneteenth Flag

Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Juneteenth Independence Day Celebrations

Juneteenth U.S.A

the oldest Juneteenth nonprofit advocacy organization in the United States. Its sole purpose at its founding was to raise awareness of

Juneteenth

National-Juneteenth

NJOF is a national foundation, including hundreds of local organizations, that have been instrumental in the passage of Juneteenth Independence Day legislation.

National Civil Rights Museum

Juneteenth Community Day. The National Civil Rights Museum is celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 as a Community Day with free museum admission.

Petition :: Relocate 2026 FIFA World Cup & 2028 Summer Olympics

Relocate the

2026 FIFA World Cup

and 2028 Summer Olympics

The Issue

This petition has been started due to a deep concern and disappointment with the current state of American governance, which seems to disregard the very ethos of unity, solidarity, and peace that these global sporting events stand to represent. It does not reflect the values that these international contests, particularly the Olympics, inherently uphold.

Petition

Relocate 2026 FIFA World Cup & 2028 Summer Olympics

The Demand

erase the USA’s right to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup and allocate all USA-based matches to Mexico and Canada.

Joseph and Joyce Ellwanger :: Lifelong US Activist Couple

Trump Offers No Rest For Lifelong US Activist Couple

France 26: 2.6.2025

Milwaukee (AFP) – They've lost count of how many times they've been arrested, but even with a combined age of 180 years, American couple Joseph and Joyce Ellwanger are far from hanging up their activist boots.

The pair, who joined the US civil rights rallies in the 1960s, hope protesting will again pay off against Donald Trump, whose right-wing agenda has pushed the limits of presidential power.

"Inaction and silence do not bring about change," 92-year-old Joseph, who uses a walker, told AFP at a rally near Milwaukee in late April.

He was among a few hundred people protesting the FBI's arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of helping an undocumented man in her court evade migration authorities.

By his side -- as always -- was Joyce, 88, carrying a sign reading "Hands Off Hannah."

. . .

Joseph took part in strategy meetings with Martin Luther King Jr -- the only white religious leader to do so -- after he became pastor of an all-Black church in Alabama at the age of 25.

He also joined King in the five-day, 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which historians consider a pivotal moment in the US civil rights movement.

Joyce, meanwhile, was jailed for 50 days after she rallied against the US military training of soldiers from El Salvador in the 1980s. Read On

Strength for
the Struggle

Joseph Ellwanger's Memoir Gives Insight Into Civil Rights Cause

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Annysa Johnson 5.11.2014

The Rev. Joseph Ellwanger is probably best known as a civil rights activist who marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led a group of white citizens in support of black voters' rights in Selma, Ala., in 1965.

But Ellwanger's fight for justice has extended far beyond the turmoil of the 1960s. In the nearly 50 years since Selma, the now-retired Lutheran pastor and his congregations have taken up the causes of many of society's most marginalized: the poor; refugees; those addicted or imprisoned; and in more recent years, gay and lesbian people seeking full inclusion in their church.

Ellwanger recounts those journeys in a newly published memoir, "Strength for the Struggle: Insights from the Civil Rights Movement and Urban Ministry."

Q. You call this a memoir "of sorts." What do you mean by that?

A. It's not a biographical story in that it follows from birth to 2014. It's really about the learning and growing on all kinds of issues in the three congregations that I've been associated with as a pastor. It's my story, but it's much more than that. It's also the story of the congregation and its struggle to live out the Gospel and do justice in a thoughtful and authentic way.  Read On