{"id":9154,"date":"2025-07-18T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:36:43","slug":"good-trouble-lebt-wie-das-vermaechtnis-von-john-lewis-amerikas-strassen-zurueckerobert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/good-trouble-lebt-wie-das-vermaechtnis-von-john-lewis-amerikas-strassen-zurueckerobert\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Trouble Lives \u2013 How the Legacy of John Lewis Is Reclaiming America\u2019s Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t a day of giants, but of the many. Not a march with grand speeches, but a beginning in small groups, decentralized, creative, determined. And yet, in some cities, it was the masses that moved. On July 17, exactly five years after the death of John Lewis, tens of thousands took to the streets across the US \u2013 under the motto the civil rights leader himself had coined: \u201cGood Trouble Lives On.\u201d In metropolises like Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Sacramento, and Los Angeles, more than 10,000 people gathered \u2013 united in protest against Donald Trump\u2019s policies, in memory of Lewis, and in the hope that his vision would not fade. It was a day of quiet defiance, of colorful umbrellas, of old songs and new confidence. And it was a day that made visible that resistance does not have to be loud to be heard - but sometimes it does.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In New Haven, Connecticut, hundreds gathered on the Green \u2013 the square where once slave markets were held, where later speakers of the abolitionist movement spoke, and where now the echo of Lewis\u2019 legacy could be heard. On banners stood phrases like: \u201cWe make good trouble in bad times.\u201d In Denver, around 2,000 demonstrators marched through the city center, many in T-shirts bearing the silhouette of the congressman who once walked from Selma to Montgomery \u2013 and almost died doing so. In Minneapolis \u2013 the symbolic place of the George Floyd protests \u2013 thousands gathered, supported by dozens of organizations, churches, and African American groups. In Sacramento, the protest march stretched for kilometers all the way to the State Capitol, accompanied by musicians, activists, and student groups. In total, protests took place in over 1,600 locations. Sometimes with dozens, sometimes hundreds, and in many places with thousands. In Washington, D.C., it was only two dozen \u2013 but they carried painted umbrellas, each one a colorful echo of what Lewis meant when he said: \u201cIf you see something that is not right - say something. Do something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n