Thread: Trump win sparks student walkouts and angry protests across California

Trump win sparks student walkouts and angry protests across California

November 9, 2016 2:40 PM




At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students, or half of the entire student body,
walked out of class before 9 a.m. in protest of Trump’s victory, Berkeley Unified
School District officials said.

Protests of Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election took place across California on Wednesday, with students at several Bay Area high schools walking out in the middle of class and a throng of young demonstrators taking to the steps of Los Angeles’ City Hall.

The demonstrations — which mirrored protests from Seattle to Pittsburgh — followed protests in the pre-dawn hours in which crowds openly disavowed the president-elect, with a few protesters resorting to vandalism.

At Berkeley High School, about 1,500 students — half the entire student body — walked out of class after first period began at 8 a.m., Berkeley Unified School District officials said.

Students tweeted “#NotMyPresident” and pledged to unify. Others chanted, “Si, se puede,” Spanish for “Yes, we can,” and waved Mexican flags, according to posts on social media.

“It’s not the first time we’ve had a walkout. We know what to expect, we know what we need to do,” said Berkeley Unified spokesman Charles Burress.
School and district administrators and faculty accompanied the students as they marched from the school through downtown and onto the UC Berkeley campus.



“Our primary concern is to make sure they are safe during the school day,” Burress said.

District officials were not making any plans to discipline students, he said.

In Contra Costa County, El Cerrito police cautioned drivers to look out for high school students in the road.

“Students from High Schools in west Contra Costa County are conducting walkouts today in various locations over election results,” the department said in a statement. “We urge drivers to use caution if you happen upon any of these groups.”

Earlier in the day, after Trump delivered his victory speech in New York, an estimated 2,000 people rallied at UCLA, where two separate demonstrations merged into one, said UCLA police Sgt. Miguel Banuelos.


Berkeley High students marched through the UC Berkeley campus Thursday in support of
racial justice. Photo: Lance Knobel

The group marched from the campus through Westwood Village to a federal building on Wilshire Boulevard, Banuelos said. There were no arrests. At about 1 a.m., a Trump piñata was set on fire in a trash can outside a Westwood Boulevard store.

N.J. Omorogieva, 19, said she was “heartbroken” by the election’s result when she spotted the crowd in Westwood while walking home.
“Of course, I joined in,” she said. “To give hugs to people who were overcome by devastation.”

In downtown L.A., a crowd gathered near City Hall and property was defaced, including a fence scrawled with graffiti insulting Trump. Around 2 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, a crowd of at least 100 young demonstrators flocked to the steps of City Hall.

About 200 people demonstrated near Cal State L.A., and 50 others were at Pershing Square, said LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman. There were no arrests.

The mood was more buoyant at the president-elect’s star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, where a small crowd of approximately 30 Trump supporters gathered early Wednesday morning to celebrate his upset victory.


Students gathered outside a Berkeley high school on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (KGO-TV)

Diane Mendez, 23, a Trump supporter who volunteered at a polling place, said she came to celebrate what she saw as a turning point.
“He said he would bring jobs back to America. We all need jobs,” Mendez said. “Who doesn’t need jobs?”

In Oakland, demonstrators smashed a window at the Oakland Tribune newsroom and ignited trash containers and tires, police said. Small fires also prompted the closure of a Bay Area Rapid Transit station.

The crowd broke windows on five businesses and further vandalized another, said Oakland police spokeswoman Johnna Watson. One citation was issued, but no one was arrested, she said.

Protesters also burned Trump in effigy, KNTV reported.

Protests in the Bay Area city were centered downtown and there was a march along Highway 24, where a woman was struck by an SUV. She was taken to a hospital with “major injuries,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Matt Langford told the San Francisco Chronicle.

At UC Santa Barbara, hundreds marched near the campus, with some chanting, “Not my president.”

One person carried a Mexican flag, according to video posted by the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus.

About 500 students marched through the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego, protesting Trump’s win and chanting his name with an expletive.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...109-story.html

Anger over Trump explodes; protesters set fires, smash glass

November 9, 2016



OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Demonstrators angry about the election of Donald Trump smashed windows and set garbage bins on fire early Wednesday in downtown Oakland, California, joining protesters elsewhere in the country who swarmed streets in response to the election. Other protests were generally peaceful.

In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland and forced a delay for trains on two light-rail lines. Media reports said the crowd grew to about 300 people, including some who sat in the middle of a road. The crowd of anti-Trump protesters burned American flags and chanted, "That's not my president."

In Seattle, about 100 protesters gathered in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, blocked roads and set a trash bin on fire.

In Pennsylvania, hundreds of University of Pittsburgh students marched through the streets, with some in the crowd calling for unity. Campus protests also erupted at the University of Texas, the University of Connecticut, the University of California, Berkeley and other University of California campuses.

On Twitter, the hashtag "NotMyPresident" had been used nearly half a million times.

The Oakland protest grew to about 250 people by late Tuesday. Police Officer Marco Marquez said protesters damaged five businesses, breaking windows and spraying graffiti. No arrests were made.

A woman was struck by a car and severely injured when protesters got onto a highway, the California Highway Patrol said. Demonstrators vandalized the driver's SUV before officers intervened. The highway was closed for about 20 minutes.

Oakland is a hotbed of violent protest in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two years ago, demonstrators briefly shut down two freeways, vandalized police cars and looted businesses when a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson.

Nearly 80 people were arrested after a night in 2010 that saw rioters use metal bats to break store windows, set fires and loot after a white transit police officer was acquitted of murder and convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the slaying of an unarmed black man.

Elsewhere in California, more than 1,000 students at Berkeley High School staged a walk-out and marched to the campus of the University of California.

Students also walked out of two high schools in Oakland, a high school in Boulder, Colorado and a high school in Phoenix, Arizona.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vic...122206127.html

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Yes, appears to be plenty of protesting but I'd bet California wins with the Mexican flags waving but then we also have the most illegals. And what is this really accomplishing for them? Not going to convince others to change their minds and the people of this country have spoken by electing a new president. Get over it!

The 10 p.m. news in San Diego said the Anti-Trump protest here was organized by an anti-war group.
I never heard of them, so I already forgot their name.
10 to 15 arrested so far. More arrest to come.

They have one thing right.....

Our Donald Trump is not their President.

All the more reason they should start packing and go back to where ever they came from to
avoid forceful deportation.

We do not Nazi solute at rallies in America and your culture and way of life is not welcomed or
wanted here.

Make it easy for yourself and get out quickly.

Bay Area High Schools Stage Walk-Outs to Protest Trump Win



9 Nov 2016

Approximately 1,500 students and teachers at Berkeley High School in northern California staged a walk-out Wednesday morning in protest of Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election Tuesday.

According to NBC News, students at the school walked out en masse Wednesday morning, with some holding Mexican flags and signs reading “F*ck Trump,” and “Not our president.” The students reportedly marched to the campus of the nearby University of California Berkeley, where they were joined by students from other nearby schools and by some teachers.

Students at Oakland Technical High School, the Bishop O’Dowd school and Lincoln High School in San Jose also reportedly staged walk-outs on Wednesday.

The hope from Berkeley High pic.twitter.com/9TjXB8Tpmw
— Hasmig Minassian (@MassHas) November 9, 2016





“It’s shocking that America voted for this man,” 16-year-old Berkeley junior Gabby Klein told local news website Berkeleyside.com. “He’s a racist, a sexist, a xenophobe. It’s one step forward and two steps back. We had Obama and now we have Donald Trump and Melania. It’s disgusting.”



The protests in the Bay Area Wednesday morning echoed numerous similar events across the country after Trump defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a highly contentious presidential election. Trump’s win came as a surprise to million across the country as Clinton was heavily favored by most polling ahead of Election Day.

Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets of Sixth Avenue in Manhattan Wednesday evening in protest, many of them chanting, “He is not our president” and other similar slogans.

Similar demonstrations occurred in Boston, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and San Francisco Wednesday. The progressive organization MoveOn had organized hundreds of anti-Trump protests across the country in the hours after Tuesday’s historic vote.





Schools in Los Angeles are taking additional steps to help those disappointed by the election outcome. The Los Angeles Unified School District, in which 74 percent of students are Latino, announced Wednesday that counseling would be available for students upset by Trump’s victory.

“As students and staff arrive at school today, we know there may be feelings of fear and anxiety, especially within our most vulnerable communities,” LAUSD Board President Steve Zimmer wrote the district’s families in a letter, according to the Sherman Oaks Patch. “The District is providing additional support to those who need it.”

http://www.breitbart.com/california/...est-trump-win/

11/9/2016

Phoenix students walk out in protest of Trump

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 students at several
Des Moines-area public high schools have staged
walkouts to protest Donald Trump's election victory.


November 9, 2016:

nearly 1000 students from forest grove high school forest grove oregon staged a walkout and march from the
high school to the administrative building about 1.5 miles on main st to protest racism and bigotry in their school

HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: KATHY FULLER

People protest outside Trump Tower following President-elect Donald Trump's election victory in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016

TYLER FRANCKE - More than 100 Woodburn High School students participated in a walkout Wednesday morning

They can maybe move to another country then?