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Protesters gathered in LA after hundreds of federal agents and military personnel launched an immigration raid in MacArthur Park.
Police arrested two journalists and at least 11 others during a protest in Cincinnati over the detainment of an Egyptian immigrant.
Hundreds of protesters who spent the Fourth of July in downtown Los Angeles to rally against the immigration raids that have roiled the region and the surge in federal funding approved this week to keep them going.
Civil rights activist and Georgia Congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using peaceful, non-violent action to challenge injustice. Now, in 1,600 cities and towns across the country, protesters are planning to make similar "good trouble" on July 17, the fifth anniversary of Lewis' death.
In a demand letter sent to Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell, Jonathan Markovitz, a staff attorney for the ACLU SoCal, said that the reasoning given for denying Refuse Facism’s permit “appears to be unconstitutional.
Protests and events against President Donald Trump's controversial policies that include mass deportations and cuts to Medicaid and other safety nets have started Thursday at more than 1,600 locations around the country,
The “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action honors the late congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. Protests are expected to be held along streets, at court houses and other public spaces. Organizers are calling for them to be peaceful.
Tens of thousands of people pledged to take to the streets in what organizers have cast as a national day of action.