Members of Indivisible Mad River Valley joined a special Flag Day celebration on June 14 in New Haven, Vermont. Relay for Democracy: Honoring Our Flag from Border to Border, was part of the national No Kings Day activities. This “flag relay” followed Route 7 starting just on the other side of the border in Massachusetts and continuing north to Swanton, with stops in dozens of towns and cities along the way. Thousands of protesters lined the roadway, waving signs and cheering as the convoy rolled through. The flag making the journey had flown over the U.S. Capitol in 2019 in honor of a World War II veteran from Richmond who’d stormed Utah Beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day – June 6, 1944.
This event was organized by members of Indivisible and 50501 groups, the Milton Democrats and others pro-democracy allies. This event was part of over 40 events that took place in Vermont on Saturday, a day which coincided by Flag Day and President Trump’s birthday and military parade in Washington, DC. Sunny skies and mild temps made the local events popular and signs and cries of No Kings were heard from the south to the north. Several hundred people gathered on the State House lawn in Montpelier while thousands turned out in Burlington along the waterfront to exercise their First Amendment rights.
