Local poets Christopher Luna, Eric Fair-Layman, Debra Elisa, Elmo Shade, and Clark County Poet Laureate Susan Dingle shared their work with thousands of fellow Americans who filled Esther Short Park in Vancouver, WA on April 5 to express their displeasure with the Trump administration’s fascist policies and agenda. Similar events happened in cities across the country that day.
HANDS OFF! Vancouver Protest / Evergreen Resistance / 50501 / Indivisible
HANDS OFF! Vancouver Protest
Join us! Saturday, April 5, 2025 12-3pm at Esther Short Park.
605 Esther St, Vancouver, WA
Learn more at EvergreenResistance.org or FiftyFifty.one
https://events.pol-rev.com/events/48ed63de-ceee-488a-bbf3-702298177ec5
50 protests.
50 states.
1 movement.
Join us in the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach.
On February 5th, #50501 raised our voices. The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.
In just days, grassroots organizers—without any budget, centralized structure, or official backing—pulled off over 80 peaceful protests in all 50 states. Twelve days later, tens of thousands of Americans declared “No Kings Day” and protested once more. On March 4th, a call to stand up for democracy was answered with another wave of protests.
Our movement shows the world that the American working class will not sit idly by as plutocrats rip apart their democratic institutions and civil liberties while undermining the rule of law.
50 protests. 50 states. 1 day.
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former proprietor of So Many Books, which later became Cover To Cover Books, home of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic for many years
Here are the poems shared by Christopher Luna that afternoon:
May All Goodness Arise
By Christopher Luna
let us not be scared of the work
because it’s hard
let us move the mountain
because the mountain must move
Danez Smith, “principles”
CHAOS: a gang
of small-minded bigots
misogynist freedom haters
who desire control and destruction
and who believe only in greed
they who seek power
and care not who or what
is obliterated in the process
they do not love their country
they are not here to help
they are counting on
our ignorance, our complacency
betting that we’ll look the other way
as they tear it all down
but we shall not
concede nor comply
it is time for all good people
to rise stand fight
PRINTED MATTER VANCOUVER 