San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible plans to hold a rally Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Old Pasadena. The event is part of “Good Trouble Lives On,” a nationwide weekend of nonviolent action honoring the late Rep. John Lewis.
The national “Good Trouble Lives On” effort, which is organized separately from San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible, describes this year’s action as a weekend running July 17 through 19.
The weekend is tied to the legacy of Rep. John Lewis, who coined the phrase “good trouble” during the civil rights movement. Lewis died July 17, 2020.
A first nationwide “Good Trouble Lives On” protest was held July 17, 2025, with as many as 200,000 people participating nationwide, according to a summary of national and wire coverage of that earlier event.
San Gabriel Foothills Indivisible describes itself as a grassroots collective of San Gabriel Foothills residents organized in opposition to what it calls anti-democratic policies and oligarchy, citing values including empathy, diversity, non-violence, and resiliency, and stating a goal of defending democratic freedoms, the rule of law, and electing progressive leaders.
The group, formerly known as NELA Indivisible, describes itself as serving foothill communities from Monrovia to Sunland-Tujunga and is part of the national Indivisible network, which was founded in 2016 by former congressional staffers Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg and grew to more than 5,000 local groups by early 2017.
Saturday’s location has been the site of a recurring Saturday demonstration series the group held at the same Fair Oaks and Colorado intersection beginning in late January and continuing into the spring, according to prior Pasadena Now reporting.
According to the group’s newsletter, Saturday’s event will include speakers, and organizers are asking attendees to bring signs and to bring other people willing to speak out on voting rights.
Organizers can be reached by email at SanGabrielFoothillsIndivisible@gmail.com or through the group’s website, SanGabrielFoothillsIndivisible.org. The group also maintains a Facebook page, Signal channels, and a linktr.ee page listing its recent actions and newsletters.
Speaker names and expected attendance for Saturday’s Pasadena rally were not specified in materials available at publication time.
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