On-line announcment. The year-old grassroots organization Winona Indivisible has called for a third Windom Park protest rally for traditional American democracy and against Trump authoritarianism.
Message: Bring posters, raise voices, be peaceful
WINONA, Minn.— After its “Hands Off” rally with 700 protesters in April and its “No King” rally with 1,400 in June, Winona community organizers are putting together what they see as an encore. Time: 6 p.m., Thursday, July 17, again at central Winona’s premiere Windom Park at the Huff and Broadway crossroads. Again the demonstration is coupled with others that have been announced nationally by 300 similar organizations, The events are called a “Day of Action” with a theme picked up from a line coined by civil rights hero John Lewis about the virtue and value of getting into “good trouble.”
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Lewis. A 17-term member of Congress from Georgia. Died in 2020. Lived in the peaceful protest tradition of Martin Luther King Jr.