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Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8) Joins Good Trouble PERSISTs.

July 17, 2025

 

Marie Follayttar, 207–838-0162, flagpantsgirl@gmail.com

lisa@momsrising.org

A part of Good Trouble National Day of Action

 

VIRTUAL, UNITED STATES – On Thursday, July 17, Good Trouble PERSISTs. will bring together advocates, artists, and elected leaders for a powerful virtual rally, joining over 1,600 events nationwide to honor the legacy of Congressman John Lewis and take a stand against the growing attacks on our civil and human rights.

Inspired by Lewis’ call to make “good trouble, necessary trouble,” we’re coming together to fight back against a coordinated campaign to criminalize protest, suppress the vote, slash vital public programs, and silence dissent. From bills like the Big Beautiful Bill and the SAVE Act to Trump’s push to gut basic freedoms, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

 

WHAT: Good Trouble PERSISTs. Virtual Rally

WHEN: Thursday, July 17, 2025 | 8:30–10:00 PM ET / 5:30–7:00 PM PT

WHERE: Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/GoodTroublePersists

WHO: PERSIST., MomsRising, West Coast Women Forward

 

WITH:

Co-Moderated by: Nola Haynes, Ph.D, MDiv and Katie Phang

Hosted by:

Monifa Bandele, Senior Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, MomsRising
Rhonda Foxx, Founder, PERSIST.
West Coast Women Forward

 

FEATURING: 

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8)

Shenna Bellows, Secretary of State of Maine

Heather Booth, Partner, Democracy Partners

Amy Brenneman, Advocate and Actress

Angela Fobbs, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Democrats Abroad

Reggie Hubbard, Founder/Chief Serving Officer of Active Peace LLC

Kristofer Inez Onyx aka “Landen C.L. Smith”, Gay America Esquire 2025

Aubrey Ottenstein, CEO of Globally

Ai-Jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance 

Karin Schall, The Chalktavist

Matthew Whitaker, PhD; E. D. of the George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center 

 

MEDIA CONTACT: 

For more information or to arrange interviews with organizers or participants:
Marie Follayttar, 207–838-0162, flagpantsgirl@gmail.com

Lisa Lederer lisa@momsrising.org

Caroline Pompizzi Caroline@thepersistnetwork.com 847-287-8547

 

To learn more about the national campaign, visit www.goodtroubleliveson.org.  

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PERSIST. is a bold, action-driven network that originated from the largest women’s campaign coalition in U.S. history—Women for Harris-Walz. We are committed to preserving the strength of that coalition, expanding its reach, and mobilizing it year-round. By uniting socially conscious, politically engaged women—including power-builders, media-makers, organizers, and elected leaders—we shift culture, build alignment, and scale impact. Our work generates durable political power through women-led rapid response media, strategic partnerships, and consistent action that extends well beyond election cycles. We are built to endure.

MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.