For the first time in 78 years, Janet Griffin said she is afraid for democracy.

"We have become a nation of opinions rather than facts," she said. "I have never been afraid of a president" before, she added.

Griffin said former Alabama Gov. George Wallace used fear to bring people together. "I see that happening in our country now," she said.

People are fearing immigrants, Muslims and other minority groups, Griffin said. "We have gone against what the country stands for," she added.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of Alabamians are taking part in the progressive Indivisible movement, a nationwide grassroots resistance to the policies of the Trump administration.

In the span of three weeks, Indivisible Alabama - District 6 organizer Shea Rives said the group has gone from about 40 members to at least 900.

Others are members of Indivisible Alabama and Indivisible Birmingham.

"It is a lot of people who are politically active for the first time, or the first time in a long time," Rives said. "Its people coming together going, 'What can we do to kind of stand for the country that we always thought we were living in?'"

Fellow organizer, Carole Griffin, said the movement is about people standing up for "core American values."

Rives said the group is opposed to corruption, authoritarianism and racism. "That's about as American as it gets," he said.

They are against, for example, President Donald Trump's policies on immigration and repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Members of the non-partisan group held a "March 4 Creative Resistance" gathering in the parking lot behind Beloved Community Church and The Abbey in Avondale on Saturday afternoon. Dozens of families gathered for fellowship, food and music.

The event, only formally announced on Friday afternoon, was organized in response to the nationwide "March 4 Trump" events. One was held Saturday afternoon at Hoover Tactical.

Indivisible Alabama -- District 6 held protests at the Vestavia Hills office of U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer and called for a town hall meeting.

Though Palmer denies it was because of the movement, about six weeks after the protests began, Palmer agreed to the hold a town hall. Hundreds of people attended.

Eleanor Swagler, 18, said she was a month too young to vote in the last presidential election. "I didn't have a say in this, and this is going to be my life," she said.

Swagler said she decided to take action. Her first act was to participate in the protest at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport on Jan. 29 against Donald Trump's travel ban.

John Garst said he wanted to get involved after learning of Trump's cabinet choices. He said he believes Trump's cabinet appointees were picked to tear down the agencies they were selected to oversee.

"Our government is sacred to us," he said. "Our democracy is sacred to us. Everything (the Trump administration) is doing is anti-American."

What's next?

Rives said the group has many ideas, but one of the first things will be to ask senators Richard Shelby and Luther Strange to hold town hall meetings. He said a group is already protesting outside Shelby's local office every Tuesday.