San Mateo and neighboring communities made good trouble on Good Trouble Lives On day on July 17 when honoring Congressman John Lewis on the five-year anniversary of his death. We marched from the Hillsdale Shopping Center to Central Park, with our signs, flags and music makers. We got a lot of horn honks from the cars driving past. Even a car full of nuns honked and waved and showed their Good Trouble Lives On signs.
The San Mateo police kept us safe when we crossed the busy intersections along the 2-mile stretch of El Camino. Our rally in Central Park was a great success. The Freedom Strummers greeted us with American folk songs as we arrived. Mary Beavins of Indivisible San Mateo gave a speech about the Good Trouble John Lewis made during his lifetime helping to get the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed and risking his life to help desegregate the South. San Mateo’s former three-term mayor, Claire Mack, gave a rousing speech telling about her time making Good Trouble when she worked to stop illegal drug sales in her neighborhood when no one else would.
We had a great day letting the world know we’re inspired by Congressman John Lewis and his life of making good trouble. We will continue to make good trouble to protect and maintain Social Security, Medicaid, environmental safety and all the other government programs that the present administration is trying to cut. What we don’t want to maintain is a wanna-be king.
Peace Action of San Mateo County
Indivisible Mid-Peninsula
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What is even scarier is that these marchers are allowed to vote. Clearly, they are misinformed and do not bother to read the provisions of Trump's tax bill in detail. The only cuts that are made to Social Security and Medicaid intend to remove a category that is not eligible for these programs but were signed up during the Covid19 scare. They must now start paying for their own health and retirement benefits, like the rest of us. March on into oblivion, please!
Thanks for your letter, Ms. Beavins, Mr. Caggiano, and Ms. Collins, but it sounds like the only progress you’re making is in getting exercise. There’s no change in what our (yes, our) great President Trump is doing in Making America Great Again, again. The One Big Beautiful Bill passed. A rescissions bill passed which defunds USAID, PBS, and NPR. I believe this was the first of more to come. ICE is concentrating enforcement in sanctuary cities and states.
Perhaps the Indivisible organization funding these marches should instead donate their money to PBS and NPR or whatever programs they’re outraged at Trump for defunding. Perhaps marchers should ask for walkathon pledges so while they’re doing future marches, they can earn some money and donate first to PBS or NPR. Tote bags, if they’re still being given out, are useful in holding fluids during long walks. In the wilderness or on El Camino.
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