This past weekend Sweet Grass Uprising and Siouxlands Good Trouble Makers organized a United We Stand rally in South Sioux City and Sioux City.
Organizers estimated about 900 people had attended and walked from South Sioux City to Sioux City across the Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Organizers handed out booklets of the US Constitution. Participants made four stops along the protest route. With each stop there were prayers and readings of the Constitution.
People joined the march as it was going on, and some were at the pavilion waiting to join the rest of the group.
Jess Lopez-Walker with Sweetgrass Uprising, said that the rally focused upon native tribes in the area, treaties, and how they see a pattern of broken promises between the US Government and Tribes being repeated.
Later on Saturday, a No Kings rally was held in downtown Sioux City.
Iowa had more than thirty protests happen across the state.
In Des Moines, thousands of people participated in the No Kings event at the Iowa State Capitol.
*Additionally, South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says making the 2017 federal tax cuts permanent could put more money i n the pockets of South Dakota families.
Rounds says the average household could save around $2,400 a year under the plan.
A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows lower-income families might lose more than they gain and that it would add over four trillion dollars over the next decade to the national deficit.
Republicans are aiming to pass the reconciliation package by July 4.
*In other news, the League of United Latin American Citizens is the oldest Latino advocacy agency in the nation, and the only active LULAC council in the state of Nebraska has come to an end, for now.
Nebraska LULAC was reinstated in 2018, after years of former activity from activists throughout the state, after the immigration raids in O’Neill.
For two years, State Director Elsa Aranda was often found in different cities working on police relations, trauma recovery and education opportunities.
But now, because Aranda is moving out of state for personal health reasons, the Nebraska chapter will close.
There are currently more than 900 LULAC councils throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
