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."

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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

Inclusive Car March :: American Society on Aging

Inclusive Car March

American Society on Aging

1.  To have an age-inclusive, accessible, safe, and COVID-conscious way to support the movement for equality and justice

2.  To spread awareness with a caravan of cars decorated to show solidarity with protestors around the country

✔ Plan your route carefully.

✔ Decide if you want the event to be public or private

✔ Meet at a designated time and place to get organized and line up.

✔ Decorate your car with signs to show solidarity with protestors.

✔ Invite participants

DO’s and DON’Ts of a Car March

DO arrive at the meetup spot on time

DO bring materials to decorate

DO bring water and snacks

DO print posters

DO play music

DO turn your lights on

DO honk at designated intersections, but only once or twice, depending on the goals of the event

DO encourage viewers to honk, shout, show support as you drive by

DO center the voices of people who aren’t heard in traditional protests

DO follow all traffic laws (stop for pedestrians, stop at red/yellow lights, etc.)

DO try to stay together

DON’T

❌cover windows – write on windows and put posters and poster paper on the sides of doors

❌honk excessively

❌worry if your group gets split up with other cars on the road. They will move along eventually.

Postcards For America :: Political Advocacy & Social Media

Postcards for America

Jennifer Fisher February 19

GOP Members of Congress or Senators should not be able to post w/o dissent.

They should not get to get away with what they doing - what they are allowing to happen hassle free.

Postcards for America

POSTCARDS are not LETTERS. They DO get looked at. 

Among other reasons, they are favored because they: 

(1) Are pretty and easily stackable 

(2) Only have one subject per Postcard.

"I am your Constituent & ..."

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