Anti-trump protests by college students opposing deportation plans

Middlebury College said the demonstration Wednesday was peaceful and the majority of people involved were students.

Omaha Public Schools spokeswoman Monique Farmer said about 200 students left the school, located near 36th Street and Ames Avenue, around 9:15 a.m. Wednesday. “I saw many of my personal friends and even my own family, they were afraid of numerous things he had spoken about during his campaign and were afraid”, Cass Sotomayor, an East Los Angeles College student said. “But in this moment of crisis we also need to hold on to our radical vision of the world we want and need”. “Then I’ve heard some of them make comments around some of the language and rhetoric heard during the campaign and their frustrations with that”.

Students began leaving Wilson High School at noon, taking the Metro from Tenleytown to Metro Center and marching downtown to Trump’s new hotel.

On Monday afternoon, UW students walked out of their classes to protest ideologies held by president-elect Donald Trump, whose victory set off mass protests nationwide last week.

Mendez High School student Arlene Contreras was one of the students holding a rainbow-colored sign in support of LGBTQ rights and civil rights of minority groups. He said staff members in the 159,000-student district will continue to work with students “to establish guidelines for voicing their opinions in a respectful and safe environment”.

More walkouts are planned at GWU and at campuses across the country tomorrow to promote #SanctuaryCampus, a controversial activist movement to protect undocumented college students as well as others who may be vulnerable, including Muslims, LGBTQ people and people of color, while on campus.

Thousands of students marched in Washington DC in protest against US President-elect Donald Trump.

Some teachers, Lucia said, cheered as they walked out of school today.

In nearby Beltsville, Maryland, students walked out of High Point High School and blocked area roads for about half an hour. We received this statement from San Diego Unified School District…

Students from Blair High were joined along the way by students from Northwood High School and Albert Einstein High School.

The protesters called out “Si, se puede” – Spanish for “Yes, we can” – and “The people united will never be divided”. Obama said he was “encouraged” by the wide-ranging conversation the pair had, adding that it’s important “we call come together” to face the challenges America faces.