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Social media users nationwide are planning another protest against President Donald Trump on Presidents’ Day, with Denver organizers calling for a gathering at the Colorado State Capitol at noon on Monday, February 17. The demonstration is organized by new groups that have cropped up since the success of the Fifty State Protests on February 5. The permit for the event plans for a gathering of 4,000 people from noon to 4 p.m. at the Capitol’s west steps, but online flyers for the event don’t include a stop time. (The Fifty State Protest went past its planned 8 p.m. stop time.) The details about Colorado’s Presidents’ Day protest are being shared by users of Threads, TikTok, Bluesky and Reddit, but two new local activist groups, the Common Ground People’s Collective and the People’s March, have taken a central role in putting it together. They’re also billing it as “a 50501 event,” referring to the Fifty State Protests that took place in fifty capitals in all fifty states on one day. ...

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