ICC: ‘Good trouble’: Hoosiers rally against Trump, honor late US Rep. John Lewis

Hundreds of people rallied outside the Indiana Statehouse on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump and pay tribute to U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. The late civil rights leader famously encouraged listeners to get into “good trouble” across a range of speeches.

“We are all here because we are causing the good trouble that needs to happen to overthrow this fascist regime,” one speaker, identified as Sara, cried to cheers and applause.

Orators spoke from under a white tent erected atop the Statehouse’s steps, looking out at fellow protesters clustered in the shade cast by the south lawn’s few trees.

Clyde Posley Jr., a senior pastor at the Antioch Fountain of Grace in Indianapolis, pushed attendees to unite and “stop getting in silos.”

He recounted how Martin Luther King Jr. spent three days feeling insulted after being introduced as an “untouchable, just like us,” during a 1959 visit to India.

That was until, “God spoke to him and told him, ‘You are an untouchable — and your class, your education, your academics, your work, none of that changes that you are an untouchable in America because you are Black,'” Posley told the crowd.

He said that has changed.

“The assault on the American citizen is not diverse — it is against everybody that is not financially elite,” Posley asserted, buoyed by whoops and whistles.

Multiple speakers — mirroring national calls by conservatives — sought the release of the list of clients supposedly kept by the infamously wealthy financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, or accused Trump of being “on the list.”

The downtown Indianapolis event was among hundreds held across the country on Thursday, as part of the “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action.

Indiana’s chapter of 50501, an anti-Trump protest group, hosted. The organization has also put on a “No Kings” demonstration and another gathering shortly after the president reassumed office.

State Organizer Scott Johnson said the organization is “different” because it hosts major events bi-weekly instead of once or twice annually, tapping into a Signal group chat of 500 or 600 people to stay “fresh” with what “what the community’s got.”

He estimated 700 people attended the event.

“I used to worry about numbers. Now, I don’t,” Johnson added. “Now, I worry about reaching people. If we change one mind, it was a success, as far as I’m concerned.”