Last Thursday was the fifth anniversary of the death of civil rights hero John Lewis. He was with Martin Luther King Jr at the 1963 March on Washington (King’s “I have a dream” sermon from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial). Lewis was beaten by police on a civil rights march over the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. Lewis served heroically in Congress and championed voting rights – the bedrock of democracy.

Ella Fowler carries a sign as she and other anti-Trump, anti-fascism protesters march as part of the “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action, in Chicago. Credit: AP

John Lewis often spoke about Rosa Parks who, in 1955, refused to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks sparked a bus boycott that lasted until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional.

“Rosa Parks inspired us to get into trouble,” Lewis recalled. “And I’ve been getting in trouble ever since. She inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble.”

After Lewis’ death, a movement of motivated people was joined, Good Trouble Lives On, to advance his causes.

Good Trouble came to the streets of Frisco, Colorado and around the US last Thursday evening. In a town of less than 3000, 150 came out after work to say that they were done with Trump, and that it was high time America was done with Trump. “I assume this is the resistance,” a man said, approaching the crowd. “He’s stealing our future.” “We are for free speech and free press.” “Make good trouble – we must save our........

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