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Public Citizen is a nonprofit with a stated mission of taking on corporate power. It is a member of a coalition of groups behind Thursday’s protests.<\/p>\n

Major protests are planned in Atlanta and St. Louis, as well as Oakland, California, and Annapolis, Maryland.<\/p>\n

Honoring Lewis’ legacy<\/p>\n

Lewis first was elected to Congress in 1986. He died in 2020 at the age of 80 following an advanced pancreatic cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n

He was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists, a group led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1965, a 25-year-old Lewis led some 600 protesters in the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Lewis was beaten by police, suffering a skull fracture.<\/p>\n

Within days, King led more marches in the state, and President Lyndon Johnson pressed Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act that later became law.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America,\u201d Lewis said in 2020 while commemorating the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n

Chicago will be the flagship city for Thursday\u2019s protests as demonstrators are expected to rally downtown in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Betty Magness, executive vice president of the League of Women Voters Chicago and one of the organizers of Chicago\u2019s event, said the rally will also include a candlelight vigil to honor Lewis.<\/p>\n

Much of the rest of the rally will have a livelier tone, Magness said, adding \u201cwe have a DJ who\u2019s gonna rock us with boots on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protesting Trump’s policies<\/p>\n

Pushback against Trump so far in his second term has centered on deportations and immigration enforcement tactics<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, protesters engaged in a tense standoff as federal authorities conducted mass arrests<\/a> at two Southern California marijuana farms. One farmworker died after falling from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic raid.<\/p>\n

Those raids followed Trump’s extraordinary deployment of the National Guard outside federal buildings and to protect immigration agents carrying out arrests on Los Angeles. On June 8, thousands of protesters<\/a> began taking to the streets in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

And organizers of the June 14 “No Kings” demonstrations said millions of people<\/a> marched in hundreds of events from New York to San Francisco. Demonstrators labeled Trump as a dictator and would-be king for marking his birthday with a military parade.<\/p>\n

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Williams reported from Detroit.<\/p>\n

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