{"id":71536,"date":"2025-07-18T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71536\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T02:51:11","slug":"good-trouble-draws-hundreds-to-downtown-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71536\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Good Trouble’ draws hundreds to downtown San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several hundred people turned out Thursday evening in downtown San Diego to take part in a bit of \u201cgood trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the largest of several Good Trouble Lives On protests throughout the region, and one of several nationwide. The event marked the fifth anniversary of the death of Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and civil rights icon who often spoke of getting into \u201cgood trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Organizers said the local event was led by youth \u201cwho feel called to defend our civil rights, demand a democratic future, and honor the legacy\u201d of Lewis.<\/p>\n

Dane Culbreath, 17 and a rising senior at San Diego High School, told the crowd that he\u2019d lost elections for two school-related offices but that he\u2019d \u201cwon a lesson.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPower does not live in a title or a system,\u201d he said. \u201cPower is always with us, the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s rallies were in the vein of the No Kings protests, pushback to Trump administration policies and actions. An estimated 60,000 people showed up for that protest in downtown San Diego<\/a> on June 14, a Saturday.<\/p>\n

Among them was Otay Mesa resident Gilbert Solorio, who said excitement from the No Kings march motivated him and his kids to find the next local gathering. He said he\u2019s unhappy with the nation\u2019s handling of immigration, especially agents detaining people from his community. \u201cThis all makes me feel vulnerable,\u201d Solorio, a first-generation Mexican-American, said.<\/p>\n

Authorities estimated the downtown Good Trouble Lives On crowd to be around 500 to 600 people. Other rallies were slated throughout the region Thursday, including Mira Mesa and across North County, from Encinitas to Escondido.<\/p>\n

At Waterfront Park, San Diego resident Ed Martin held a sign that read \u201chands off my VA healthcare.\u201d He said he served in the U.S. Army in the early 1990s and that he\u2019s frustrated with the Trump administration\u2019s handling of veteran services, including workforce cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put our lives on the line for this country, and now to have them slap us in the face, it\u2019s a real discrimination,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a real frustration.\u201d<\/p>\n

Downtown rally-goers also heard from recent high school graduate Daniel Hernandez, a member of the nonprofit San Diego 350. He shared that as a first-generation Chicano, he didn\u2019t feel that he had enough \u201cpower to express myself in English nor in Spanish.\u201d Overwhelmed by what he called \u201cinjustices of this nation,\u201d he found inspiration from \u201cactions of our beloved community and its members like John Lewis.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a young man, Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, took part in sit-ins at lunch counters, was a Freedom Rider, and chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee known as SNCC.<\/p>\n

During the Bloody Sunday march in support of voting rights in March 1965, he suffered a broken skull as he and others tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. The scene turned violent when authorities pushed the marchers back, and dozens, including Lewis, were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Lewis died of cancer in 2020. He was the first African American lawmaker to lie in state<\/a> in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.<\/p>\n

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