Nationwide protests against Trump's immigration and health improvement tests

Chicago (AP) – Protests and events against the controversial guidelines of President Donald Trump, which include mass shifts and cuts against Medicaid and other safety networks for poor people, are planned in more than 1,600 locations across the country on Thursday.

The National Action Day of Action “Good Mühe lives”, honors the late Congressman and Civil Rights Director John Lewis. It is expected that protests are held along the streets, in court houses and other public spaces. The organizers demand that they are peaceful.

“We navigate one of the most terrible moments in the history of our nation,” said the co-president of Public Citizen, Lisa Gilbert, during an online press conference on Tuesday. “We all dealt with an increase in authoritarianism and lawlessness in our administration … as rights, freedoms and expectations of our very democracy.”

Public Citizen is a non -profit organization with a declared mission to take over company power. It is a member of a coalition of groups behind the protests on Thursday.

Large protests are planned in Atlanta and St. Louis as well as Oakland, California, and Annapolis, Maryland.

Honor of Lewis' legacy

Lewis was elected to the congress for the first time in 1986. He died in 2020 at the age of 80 after an advanced diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six Civil Rights Activists, a group that was led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. A 25-year-old Lewis led around 600 demonstrators over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on the bloody Sunday in bloody Sunday. Lewis was beaten by the police and suffered from a broken skull.

Within a few days, King headed more marches in the state, and President Lyndon Johnson urged the congress to say goodbye to the law on voting rights, which later became right.

“Make yourself in good difficulties, necessary difficulties and redeem the soul of America,” said Lewis in 2020 when he recalled the voting rights from 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

Chicago will be the flagship city for the protests on Thursday, as the demonstrators will gather in the city center in the afternoon.

Betty Magness, Executive Vice President of the League of Women Voters Chicago and one of the organizers of the Chicago event said that the rally will also contain a vigil from candlelight to honor Lewis.

A large part of the remaining rally will have a lively tone, said Magness and added: “We have a DJ that will rock us with boots on the floor.”

Protest against Trump's politics

The setback against Trump has so far focused on deportations and immigration tactics in his second term

At the beginning of this month, demonstrators wore a tense patient situation when the federal authorities carried out mass arrest in two marijuana farms in Southern California. A agricultural worker died after falling from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic robbery.

These raids followed Trump's extraordinary use of the National Guard outside the federal building and to protect immigration agents who made arrests to Los Angeles. On June 8th, thousands of demonstrators in Los Angeles took to the streets.

And organizers of the demonstrations of the “No Kings” on June 14 said millions of people marched from New York events to San Francisco in hundreds of events. Trump described demonstrators as a dictator and potential king because he had marked his birthday with a military parade.

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Williams reported from Detroit.

Corey Williams and Christine Fernando, The Associated Press