Protesters in Georgia held meetings as part of ‘Good Trouble Day’, a national protest day in honor of former civil rights leader and American Rep. John Lewis on Thursday.
In Atlanta, hundreds of demonstrators marched to Auburn Avenue to protest against the Trump government and to honor the deceased Lewis, who represented the area for decades. De Mars started in a mural painting by Lewis and concluded with a meeting outside Ebenezer Baptist Church, where ACLU Georgia executive director Andrea Young said that the crowd had to continue Lewis’s inheritance.
“John Lewis wore a torch about the Edmund Pettus Bridge,” she said, referring to the site of a civil rights march from 1965 to Selma, Ala., Who was met violently. “We still wear that torch until our multiracial democracy is what he proposed.”
In the meantime, more than 150 people gathered in Athens for a protest to commemorate Lewis. The name “good problems” was borrowed from the famous sentence devised by Lewis, who died in 2020.
Protester Gloria Heard was coming to the crowd for one reason:
“For good problems,” she said.
The demonstrators were on a busy commercial corridor with posters that are critical of President Donald Trump’s government.
Michael Call said he wanted to attend the event to honor Lewis.
“I was a little boy when I first saw him,” said Call. “The way he spoke, it inspired me to always keep the fight. He never sat down. He had him if that leader wanted to do me more and kept doing more.”
No counter protesters attended the event.
Residents of Savannah, including Ann Fenstermacher, also held a meeting in their city.
“I am very worried about Georgia – I think it is a backward state,” Fenstermacher said in the good problems in her city. “I am unhappy with the Republican attitude about things: giving benefits to rich people and taking away the benefits of people who are really in need.”
She added that she thinks the Trump administration ‘has alienated our allies, used to the clock years and years ago. I don’t know how long it takes to get that momentum back, in every possible way: ecological, social and well -being of all people in the United States. “
The demonstrations also marked the five -year anniversary of the death of Lewis.
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