With President Donald Trump set to begin the second year of his second term, activists across the country plan to protest. In what is being called the Free America Walkout, at least 600 actions will take place in all 50 U.S. states on Jan. 20 — the one-year anniversary of Trump’s swearing in.
“We believe that a free America is the only America worth calling great,” Women’s March executive director Rachel O’Leary Carmona told Spectrum News. “We’re calling on people everywhere to turn their backs on fascism and walk out. Authoritarianism runs on our obedience, and we’re withdrawing it.”
Tuesday’s walkouts will take place as the country continues to grapple with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s shooting of Renee Macklin Good in Minneapolis, where the Department of Homeland Security has surged immigration enforcement in recent weeks. DHS officials have said the shooting was self defense. Federal agents and protesters have repeatedly clashed since the immigration crackdown began.
The Women’s March, 50501, the Center for Popular Democracy, and dozens of other groups have scheduled across-the-country walkouts at 2 p.m. local time to protest immigration raids, military occupations of cities, expanded surveillance and the use of fear and force to silence dissent, its organizers said.
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