"Next week's "Free America Walkout" is asking Americans to walk out of work (and school) on Tuesday, January 20, to disrupt "business as usual" in protest of the Trump administration's recent actions and policies, including its treatment of immigrants, attempts to curb democracy, recent abuse by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and the recent fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis."
"The protest's main organizers are the Women's March. The group came to prominence the day after President Donald Trump's first inauguration in 2017, when it organized a massive nationwide protest, drawing hundreds of thousands of Americans to Washington, D.C. At that time, the protest on January 21, 2017, was the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. Now, nearly nine years later-almost to the day-the Women's March is back, marking the one-year anniversary of Trump's second inauguration."
More than 450 events are planned for Tuesday, January 20 across all 50 U.S. states and in several other countries as part of the Free America Walkout. Participants are asked to leave work and school to disrupt business as usual in protest of recent administration policies, treatment of immigrants, ICE abuses, perceived efforts to curb democracy, and the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good. The Women's March is the primary organizer and links the action to its 2017 mass mobilization. Organizers frame the walkout as a withdrawal of obedience and a pledge of being ungovernable in the face of authoritarianism.
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