AS ORGANIZERS IN her city began preparing for the No Kings protest in October 2025, Erin Groble thought seriously about whether she should attend. On the one hand, she felt the need to do something. She was raised Lutheran and attended the Jesuit Loyola University in Chicago, and the increased presence of federal agents in Chicago challenged her to figure out what it meant to love her neighbor. On the other, she was genuinely scared at the possibility of being physically harmed or getting into conflict with authorities.
“I realized it just wasn’t really authentic to who I was. It just didn’t feel like the right thing for me to do,” Groble told Sojourners. “But then I started thinking, ‘OK, well, what is the right thing for me to do?’”
Groble was already part of a group chat organized by Brendan Curran, a Catholic priest and community organizer with The Resurrection Project. Curran had brought her block about 50 yard signs advertising “Know Your Rights” information via QR codes. Groble and her neighbors had planted a few of the signs, but there were plenty sitting in her neighbor’s home. “Yard signs are kind of hard to put up—especially in the city!” Groble said. “You have to find a place to put them; there’s a lot of concrete here and a lot of the soil is compacted. So, you need a lot of determination. I just went on my normal walking route, and in front of schools, by parks, by bus stops, I put them all up.”
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