Students Across Seattle Walk Out of Class to Protest Trump

Thousands of protesters have been holding rallies in major USA cities like Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, urging Trump to resign over his racist and divisive campaign pledges.

Wednesday marked the third day that students in metropolitan Washington have protested Trump’s White House victory over Hillary Clinton, with many bringing up Trump’s promise to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out immigrants and his stance against abortion.

Tens of thousands of Americans disappointed with the results of the 2016 presidential election have protested in the past week in cities around the nation, including New York, Detroit, Boston and Miami.

There have been protests in schools in California, Minneapolis.

Trump campaigned heavily on immigration “reforms”, and has pledged to deport undocumented immigrants – although he has appeared to have softened his tone somewhat since winning the election. With a large Jewish population.

Two teachers along the campus mall picked up megaphones during the peaceful protest. Park in Silver Spring.

John Sasaki, a spokesman for Oakland Unified School District, said administrators want students back in class as soon as possible, but they are not telling them to stop their protests.

England said the incident is under investigation; police have identified one student involved in the fray, and that student will be charged with second-degree assault. The police deployed tear gas, multiple flash bangs and carried out mass arrests.

A firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department demonstrates how fast crews must put on their fire gear while responding to a call during a demonstration at Banning High in Los Angeles.

“Student protests/walkouts are not school-sponsored events and instruction will not be put on hold for this”, he wrote. Over 8,000 people protested in LA on Saturday. The student ended up on the ground in the grass near the county office building. Another 500 walked out of the city’s Santee Education Complex.

At least 30 students walked out of Stadium and at least 200 at Lincoln, according to students at those schools. He says the student was “woozy” and couldn’t remember what happened, but England believes the teen’s injuries are minor.

At Lincoln, a banner reading “Love trumps hate” was taped to the outside doors of the school auditorium. In some cities, like Los Angeles and Miami, protesters last week disrupted traffic by entering freeways. The walkout was part of a planned demonstration in the Los Angeles Area School District, KTLA reported.

All afternoon, students chanted and marched peacefully. The students are demanding city officials come up with a plan to protect their communities and recommit L.A.to being a sanctuary city, despite Trump’s plans to punish sanctuaries by cutting federal funding. “It makes our jobs easier when our first responders know the neighborhoods and the people living there”. “It was unfathomable to us”. About 15 students strayed from the demonstration. The walkouts came as students at high schools locally and nationally have taken to the streets in similar protests.

“We are alarmed at the vitriol that students and community members are experiencing across the United States in the aftermath of the recent election”.

Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor Richard L. Edwards sent an email to the University deans regarding the protest. “We want students to remain within the law and stay on campus with the resources and supports”. “You deserved so much more than this election gave you”, said Kelly Mayhew, a San Diego City College English professor. “It’s more of a vote against her than for him”.

“We wanted to quell concerns”, Loring said. “I don’t know how he is going to make it better for everyone”.

High school students led the charge Monday as protests against President-elect Donald Trump rolled into a sixth day.

“We feel unsafe with our futures”, said West Seattle High student Dana Douthwait.

However, he said he knows of an incident when a student peeled a pro-Trump bumper sticker from a auto in the parking lot but said staff could not confirm who did it. They chanted “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcomed here, ” and “Aqui estamos y no nos vamos, ” which translates to “We are here and we are not leaving”. They also held a banner that read, “Fight it”.

Students from Blair High were joined along the way by students from Northwood High School and Albert Einstein High School. At Central, they chanted “not my president” and “we have a voice”.

“We are feeling very left out of the process”, said Michelle Dubovitsky, 17, a senior. “By doing this, students have a voice”.

Carlos Hernandez, 18, took an hour-long bus ride from Bell Gardens High School to attend the rally in Downtown Los Angeles.