Nebraskans from Omaha to Lincoln to cities and towns across the state are making plans and readying placards to join the next installment of the No Kings protests on Saturday.
Assembly is a freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights. For those who took to the streets by the thousands in the 1960s, massive marches and demonstrations were common, gatherings that protested an unpopular war, the absence for Black Americans of their full complement of civil rights and, eventually, the nation’s disregard for its environment culminating in the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.
Among other causes that stirred Americans to get off their couches was the farm labor movement, which insisted that farm workers have the dignity, respect and fair wages that all laborers in the U.S. deserve, leading to boycotts, strikes and ongoing protests. According to the Library of Congress, the Delano Grape Boycott lasted from 1966 to 1970 with about 17 million consumers participating in support of Mexican-American and Filipino-American farmworkers…