“Marking the Fourth of July often involves fireworks and hot dogs, but for a few hundred people marching through Five Points on Saturday, Samuel Elfay said, “Today’s about giving people who don’t feel like they’re free a voice to speak.”
Elfay, 19, helped lead a demonstration and rally that started and ended at Manual High School. Billed as “The Rise Up 4th of July Rally,” the event took on multiple issues: educational reform, mass incarceration, immigrant detention, Indigenous rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, and more. The message: Many people in America still don’t have the freedom and equality that were promised with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.”
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Estabrook, Rachel. Denverite 4 July 2020.