Students from schools including Galileo High School in the Marina District and Mission High School in the Mission District are already arriving at City Hall, per some reports.
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With the campus erupting into protests after Donald Trump’s election Tuesday night, campus leadership is calling for unity, mutual respect and solidarity as the community and country regroup after a divisive – and, for many, devastating – campaign season. A Facebook page for a protest scheduled for Manhattan’s Union Square Park showed more than 8,000 people planned to attend.
“This angers me and this infuriates me that he has been elected”, junior Mariah Carpenter, 15, said, adding, “I’m not with Hillary either”.
They, along with students from other schools, made their way to the University of Southern California to gather at the Tommy Trojan statue.
At Berkeley High School in California, about 1,500 students walked out of classes Wednesday morning. They held signs that read “Trump Makes America Hate” and “Don’t Lose Hope”. Students at Fairview High School staged a separate walk-out in protest as well, the Daily Camera reported. She stood in the middle of the fountain and encouraged the high-schoolers to use their energy to organize and continue their protests.
I am proud of the team work demonstrated today and our students conduct when faced with unruly students from another high school. She said her opinion is her own, not that of the university. On Wednesday, they awoke to potentially more complex task: How to explain what a Trump presidency could mean for their students.
Students at Boulder High School left classes about 9 a.m.to protest the election results.
Students protesting against Trump’s election.
The gathering was needed to quell worries and to galvanize the students, including the 60 percent who are Latino, said principal Deborah Blair-Minter.
There is a mass protest in San Francisco Thursday where students are filling the streets as they march around the city. The school has been a hotbed of student activism on other issues, most recently serving as an epicenter of the opt-out movement opposed to state standardized testing.
San Jose’s Mount Pleasant High students walked as did students in Castro Valley. “We are trying to understand how this is going to impact our day-to-day lives in our interactions with other American citizens”. They eventually ended up at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, and later headed to Trump International Hotel & Tower at Columbus Circle.
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“We need to be angry”.
