PLYMOUTH — Plymouth will be one of hundreds of sites around the country hosting gatherings on Thursday, July 17, to engage in peaceful action and organization on the fifth anniversary of legacy of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis's death.
Participants will gather from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tenney Mountain Highway, inspired by Lewis’s call to make “good trouble, necessary trouble.”
"Freedom is not a state; it is an act,” Lewis wrote in his final book, "Across That Bridge." “Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society."
Local organizers, with the group Central NH Indivisible, are mobilizing in response to the recent placement of U.S. Marines in Los Angeles, detention of students exercising free speech, restrictions on the right to vote, and other perceived attacks on civil liberties.
For more information about the Plymouth event, go to mobilize.us/mobilize/event/809787. Information about the national event can be found at goodtroubleliveson.org.
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