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,” 

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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,” 

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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

Reconciliation Bill :: Immigration and ICE Agents Could Now Receive A $40,000 Bonus

Immigration Prisons as Planned in Kansas Are For Business, Not Safety

Kansas City Star: Opinion by Joshua Rush May 21, 2025

In Kansas, the average worker might hope for a $2,500 bonus at year’s end, if the company did well and the manager remembered. But under a new federal plan, a federal Immigration and an ICE agent could now receive a $40,000 bonus just for staying on the job.

That’s nearly 20 times the average year-end bonus of $2,503 received by American workers in 2024.

And it doesn’t stop there.

The same legislation proposes $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention and deportation budget by 2029, a 365% increase over current levels. The goal is to accelerate deportations and build more detention facilities.

Let’s break that down.

✔ ICE salary (for an experienced agent): $88,000 to $114,000

✔ Availability pay: Raises total to about $142,000

✔ New bonus: Add $40,000

✔ Private prison contracts to companies such as GEO Group and CoreCivic, which wants to reopen a detention facility in Leavenworth for ICE: more than $1 billion

And for individuals in the system?

✔ Cost to detain one person daily: Around $150

✔ Cost to monitor someone with electronic supervision daily: $4.07

That means the government is choosing to spend nearly 40 times more to imprison someone than to monitor them.

GENIUS ACT :: Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins

16 Senate Dems Join GOP to Advance Crypto Bill—A Gift to Trump's 'Reeking Corruption'

Common Dreams: May 20, 2025 by Eloise Goldsmith

"No Democrats should be supporting Trump's self-enrichment," said one grassroots progressive group.

Despite concerns that it does not address U.S. President Donald Trump's ties to the crypto industry, 16 Democrats in the Senate voted with most Republicans on Monday to advance a bill that creates a regulatory framework for stablecoins, digital assets whose value is tied to traditional currency, such as the U.S. dollar, or a commodity like gold.

The industry-backed Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act passed a cloture vote, with support from

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.),

the original co-sponsor of the bill

Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.)

Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.)

Mark Warner (D-Va.)

Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.)

Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.)

Ben Ray Luján (N.M.)

Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)

Cory Booker (D-N.J.)

Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)

John Fetterman (D-Pa.)

Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)

Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)

Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)

Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)

Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.).

The bill is now teed up for Senate debate.

‪However, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)—the top Democrat on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs—said on the Senate floor Monday that the bill's "basic flaws remain unaddressed," according to prepared remarks.‬

Warren is concerned, in particular, that the bill does not "rein in the president's crypto corruption."