Local activist group Fight For Social Justice invited a dozen community organizations from the Denver area to Bemis Library on May 23 to talk about their activities.
Participating groups included Indivisible Littleton, Speak Now Rally Now, DougCo Activism Task Force, COMPEATT, No Camps Colorado, We Keep Us Safe Colorado, Immigration Protection Team, General Strike US DougCo, Climate Defiance Colorado, Aurora Unidos CSO.
Indivisible Littleton joined Black Voters Matter and No Kings in their national day of action for voting rights on Saturday, May 16. ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH: STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY! was a rapid response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Callais decision to dismantle the last vestige of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the invalidation of Virginia’s voter-approved congressional map by the state supreme court and Southern states’ race to erase black voter representation in Congress.
Rally-goers from across the Denver metroplex came to our satellite event to express their support for voting rights that their parents’ and grandparents’ generations fought so hard to attain. Most ALL ROADS events took place across the South, capped by a symbolic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and a rally by thousands at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.