Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A peaceful, anti-ICE protest organized by Haskell students Friday afternoon brought swaths of community members together to declare that no one is illegal on stolen land.
Haskell students are organizing a peaceful protest against ICE following the arrests of five Lawerence community members earlier this week.
For many trans Kansans and allied activists, Friday’s “pee-in” wasn’t their first time in the state Capitol building in Topeka. Years of commitment to the cause led to the day’s event.
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Peaceful protesters congregated Sunday afternoon in downtown Lawrence to denounce American immigration policy, prior to and during the Trump administration, in the wake of an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis.
About 1,000 people lined the edges of Watson Park and spilled throughout the surrounding sidewalks of downtown Lawrence on Saturday to protest what they argue is an overreach of power by the Trump administration.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence residents can join the national wave of No Kings protesters throughout Kansas with a local demonstration this weekend.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
As 85-year-old Joe Douglas stood near Watson Park belting out a civil rights-era Pete Seeger song during Thursday’s “Good Trouble Lives On” protest, he reflected on a time of upheaval that he said was strikingly similar to today’s political landscape.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Dozens of community members gathered for an Independence Day protest Friday in downtown Lawrence, holding signs with messages including “Stand for democracy,” “Are we great yet?” “Resist” and “Save our Constitution.”
Thousands of Kansans rallied Saturday at the Statehouse in Topeka as part of a nationwide backlash to President Donald Trump, hoisting signs, joining in pro-democracy chants and speaking out against immigration raids.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Hundreds of No Kings protesters gathered in Watson Park Saturday to join a nationwide wave of demonstrations to “reject authoritarianism — and show the world what democracy really looks like,” according to organizers.
