An attacker with a weapon was rushing the peaceful protest.
A volunteer shot at the attacker, stopped his attack, but also accidentally killed a bystander.
A mass casualty event seems to have been prevented by the intervention. Details are still emerging.
Video confirms this.
Check back for updates
Stop The Reconciliation Bill - Job One for us this summer remains fighting Trump’s ruinous economic agenda. We need to keep calling every day and demand our leaders vote down the reconciliation bill and roll back Trump’s terrible tariffs. This is the big, definitional battle of the summer and we need keep working it every day. Those of you in states with Republican Senators have a particularly important role to play in the coming weeks. Use 5calls.org
Get The Military Off Our Streets, Fight Trump’s Inhumane Immigration Escalation - Contact your Rep and Senators to demand they fight Trump’s illegal use of the National Guard and Marines in California. Encourage Democrats at all levels of government to a stand with Governor Newsom and the California - for Trump is not just attacking California, he is attacking the rights and freedoms of all of us.
Own The Fourth, The Flag And Patriotism - To keep our momentum going after this weekend’s No Kings events I encourage to explore ways of Owning The Fourth and make our Independence Day an ugly one for our mad wannabe king. We heard from Hopium community member Deborah Potter last week about her work advancing “resolutions of disapproval” in New Mexico. Will have more on that for you in the coming days.
Stand Up For Science - Sign on to the critically important Bethesda Declaration and watch my interview with Stand Up For Science’s Executive Director Colette Delawalla. Signing on to the Declaration is one concrete way you can take action today.
Note that we did a great court ruling restoring the NIH grants the Bethesda Declaration calls for. Here’s an how one medical journal characterized the ruling:
District Judge William Young, a nominee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, blasted the Trump administration’s NIH cuts as discriminatory and “bearing down on people of color because of their color.”
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping terminations of NIH research contracts are not only illegal, but are also a clear manifestation of the government’s “racial discrimination and discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community.”
In a speech after delivering his verdict on Monday, U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts called the administration’s move to cut federal funding for certain research grants “arbitrary and capricious,” going against established government standards, as per the Associated Press. Young blasted the Trump administration, which he said was “bearing down on people of color because of their color,” NBC News reported. “The Constitution will not permit that.”
Here’s a possible script to use to fight the reconciliation bill and tariffs. Use whatever works for you:
I am calling to urge you to vote against the reconciliation bill and to roll back Trump’s terrible and illegal tariffs. Together these actions have raised taxes on all of us and will explode the deficit - things Republicans have always told us they did not believe in.
But your agenda is also causing all of us to “pay more and get less” for every day things including our health care; people to loses their jobs; and the economy to slow - all so you can give your rich donors a huge tax break. Your plans will weaken this great country and are an extraordinary betrayal of everything you promised during the campaign - which was to help people like me, not Elon Musk, get ahead.
Your plans are ones of sabotage, surrender and betrayal and I urge you to abandon them and to work with Democrats to find a better way.
Welcome to No Kings: What's Next in the Fight?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...
Freedom Trainers: https://freedomtrainers.net/
Tesla Takedown: https://www.teslatakedown.com/
Faithful Fight: Your Tools for Countering Authoritarianism: https://support.interfaithalliance.or...
https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-ac...
https://goodtroubleliveson.org/
https://goodtroubleliveson.org/
Good Trouble Lives ON - National Day of Action: https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-ac...
Join the call on Wednesday, June 18th: https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-ac...
What's Next?: https://www.nokings.org/next
Know our rights and freedoms. Explore our laws and founding documents and use reliable, fact-checked sources of information to personally verify information provided here.
OUR Blog wethepeopleCV.blogspot.com highlights issues, calls to action, and joy of our rally events. And much more:
National level
BE very public about your distress at the destruction of democracy in our country. Consider using objects to signal the emergency.
Attend rallies peacefully.
NO KINGS IT VITAL on JUNE 14TH due to the recent escalation by White House and his dangerous yet wildly unqualified cabinet. Secr. Noem said at a press conference that she intends to oust elected officials from Los Angeles, California-that is why Senator Padilla asked his question when he did:
Demand that Congress stop the illegal take-over of our free and fair government. Each constituent has one house member and two senators to email or call.
Use 5calls.org on your computer or mobile. IT is an incredible way to stay informed and be heard. Summary info there keeps updating.
Urge others to use 5calls too. Emails/rants are easy to compose in advance. Then you can copy the same one into the contact forms for Curtis, Moore and Lee.
The focus right now should be on Senator John Curtis, and the UGLY budget bill- the big bill that is being considered by the senate.
See blog posts in WeThePeopleCV blog about the budget bill and its dangerous hidden (deliberate) provisions to strip everything of value from us, and to turn the USA into a police state.
https://wethepeoplecv.blogspot.com/2025/06/knowledge-magatrump-budget-bill-exposed.html
https://wethepeoplecv.blogspot.com/2025/06/knowledge-hcr-explains-cuts-and-other.html
https://wethepeoplecv.blogspot.com/2025/05/knowledge-what-is-in-bill-dirty-air.html
https://wethepeoplecv.blogspot.com/2025/05/knowledge-billionaires-steal-from-you.html
more posts are coming so come back to check
Support groups like the ACLU and Democracy Docket in their lawsuits against the illegal actions. Donate as much $ as you can afford.
Support our brave Judges. Maybe write them thank you letters or post cards?
LOCAL LEVEL:
Support local groups. See Logan library’s comprehensive listing of community groups.
Form or join communities, meet people, join groups like this one. Talk to neighbors, friends, colleagues, and even strangers at the market, about what can be done and might help in your community.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION:
Our Community Group Note times of monthly meetings and
a social event planned on June 24th in the Merlin Olsen
Central Park. Subgroups are working on many vital issues.
This blog and steering committee is on of those subgroups
CVUU umbrella Group,
Many churches. CVUU, Presbyterians, Episcopalians,
Prince of Peace Lutheran Chirch
National Groups like Indivisible, 50501, Red Wine and Blue, more
PERSONAL ACTIONS AND mindset:
Speak with pursuable persons about the crisis and the urgent need to ACT NOW. NAZI Germany fell very quickly. We each need to identify who is pursuable by ourselves.
Talk face to face about whatever issue resonates with you and your friend. Please speak with anyone who does not think the situation is serious enough to require their action, or who is under-informed. (Vulnerable persons need to protect themselves)
Attend protest actions whenever you can. Show that all kinds of people demand our rights, health care, national security, private and secure data, governmental services and an even better country.
Be kind, inviting and joyous. Show that democracy is a welcoming place that will also address the concerns of all kinds of people --through our lawmaking process.
Please do not shame or argue.
Signal the crisis in your own original way. Yard signs, Tax-the-Rich clothing, FLAGS, bumper stickers and anything you can imagine could be useful.
Be brave and help your bravery be contagious.
Remember only 32% of voter eligible people voted for this AND many of those voters were misled about the actual plans. Project 2025 is in charge of destructive policy, yet it was fraudulently denied as an influence.
Remember there is also some good news.
~95% of judges ruled for democracy.
Ukraine made an incredible attack on Russian bombers. It did not harm civilians, like the Russians do on a regular basis.