Large group protesting for democracy on Presidents’ Day

CLOQUET, Minn.– Throughout the day on Presidents Day, around 100 people protested in Moose Lake and Cloquet.

We the People Cloquet Area Indivisible held the protest to oppose the current administration.

It mainly centered around themes of No Kings, ICE enforcement, and what they described as “injustice against democracy.”

“Our democracy is being broken by a President of the United States and his cabinet and all of the people who support him, and we don’t agree with that. We believe a democracy is of the people, by the people, for the people. And that is not what’s happening, and that’s why we’re here, resisting,” said Joan Peterson, Co-leader of We the People Cloquet Area Indivisible.

Peterson said, We the People Cloquet Area Indivisible has around 1,000 members.

It’s a local chapter of the National Indivisible Movement, which is a grassroots network focused on defending democracy.