Good Trouble takes to the streets in Salinas Thursday night
Madison Wilber
SALINAS, Calif. (KION-TV) — The “Good Trouble” anti-Trump protests took place all across the nation Thursday.
Salinas neighbors came out to protest throughout the streets, chanting and horn-blowing in support of protesting the federal government’s numerous policies.
“We’re standing up for the farmworkers, the immigrants and everyone that’s afraid right now,” said protester Olga Reyna. “There’s a lot of people that aren’t going to work. There are people that are afraid to walk around and it’s fear itself.”
“Never in my life did I anticipate that there would be such a breakdown in law as we have seen,” said protester Luis Jaramillo.
Some people agreeing if things don’t change soon within the country, there could be severe consequences, and that’s why they protest.
“I think a lot of well-meaning, regular people in America have been misled, and when they wake up from this, they’re going to realize that they got a bad hangover,” said protester Ray Nierlich. “This has been a shameful episode.”
More and more people showed up Thursday evening in Salinas to join the “Good Trouble” protest.
“Unless we raise our voices, as we are seeing here, and unless we assert our rights as citizens of the United States — as residents of the united states — we are bound to lose our democracy,” said one protester.
People saying that they came from all over the country to participate, many of them echoing the same principal: they are frustrated with the federal government and they feel as though an injustice is coming out of the White House.