Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against Trump: ‘You need a voice to have freedom’
More than 2,600 events are planned across the US to dissent against Trump's policies. Organizer James Phipps, 75, says: Protest is all I've done all my life'
Recovery from a recent surgery for colon cancer will not stop James Phipps, 75, from attending Saturday's No Kings demonstration in Chicago, Illinois. I have a burning desire to be a part of the protest." he said, because that's all I've done all my life."
Phipps, born in Marks, Mississippi, was involved in the civil rights movement in the 1960s from the age of 13, when he was part of racially integrating his local high school and organizing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. At 15, he became involved in the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU), which organized sharecroppers for better wages.
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