On January 20th of this year, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States of America. Not many people agree or share the same values as our new president, and most of those people also feel unsafe and targeted living in this new environment. Some of the feelings people experienced were fear, sadness, frustration, and anger.

However, since the beginning of Trump’s campaign, people have found their voice and joined the movement to restore solidarity, acceptance, and peace in America. These actions have been accomplished through rallies, protests, and boycotts.

Most of the protests against Trump’s position often take place in front of the Trump tower. It is there where people gather to oppose racism, fascism, hate and xenophobia- confronting minority groups like African Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, including females, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. These reunifications often times consist of various chants like “Not my president!” and “No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!”.

Predictively, protesters organized a protest after Trump gained the presidency on November 8th, 2016 as well as the day of his inauguration on January 20th. This continued on to be a tradition and on February 20th another anti Trump protest was organized. Also on the the month of February the word was spread about an immigrant boycott. And on January 21th the Women’s march took place around the country.

Actions of activism were also taken at our school with the the Dreamers and Allies club having had put together the “We Belong” rally on November 21st, 2016 to spread a message of unity throughout the community . With this followed the dreamers town hall on December 14; an informational meeting with the school board of education. From then on our school joined arms with other schools like Solorio and Kelly for  the “Stand Up For our Future” march and rally.

All of this has been done with the intention of resisting against oppression and giving a voice to often marginalize groups of people, to enforce unity with the hopes of making a difference.

– Citlali Perez