AFTNJ President Jennifer S. Higgins was among the speakers July 17 in Newark at a downtown rally that was part of the nationwide Good Trouble Lives On day of action.
“We’re here today to get in good trouble,” Higgins said outside the Peter W. Rodino Jr. Federal Building on Broad Street. “Why? Because we’re standing up for education, we’re standing up for Medicare, we’re standing up for Medicaid, and we’re standing up for each and every one of you.”
Members of the Perth Amboy Federation, the Montclair Adjunct Union, the Union of Rutgers Administrators and the Kean Federation of Teachers also attended, holding signs and encouraging passing motorists to honk their horns in support.
Good Trouble Lives On takes its name from the words of late civil rights leader and U.S. Congressman John Lewis. He coined the phrase “good trouble” to describe taking action in order to facilitate change, which for him began around early 1960, when he participated in a sit-in at a segregated Nashville lunch counter, resulting in his arrest.
ABOVE: AFTNJ President Jennifer S. Higgins (second from right in foreground) joins UCFW Local 108 President Charles Hall Jr. (right) and others July 17 for the Good Trouble Lives On rally outside the Peter W. Rodino Jr. Federal Building in Newark. (Photo by Chris M. Junior)
