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Beyond Despair: Finding the Will to Fight Donald Trump

The following article by Ezekiel Kweku was posted on the MTV website February 13, 2017:

Anti-Trump protesters march along Van Nuys Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Sipa USA via AP Photo

The left’s opposition to the Trump agenda suffered its first serious post-election losses this week, with Betsy DeVos and Jeff Sessions both confirmed to Trump’s Cabinet. While these weren’t the first nominees confirmed over the opposition, they were the first whom Democrats had fully united against. The Democratic base flooded the phone lines of their representatives, showed up en masse at town halls and senatorial offices, tweeted and organized and marched. Democratic congresspeople listened and delivered tough questions in confirmation hearings and (with one exception) held the line. They even flipped two Republican congressmen, convincing them that voting against DeVos was either wise or politically expedient. Continue reading “Beyond Despair: Finding the Will to Fight Donald Trump”

Women’s marches: More than one million protesters vow to resist President Trump

The following article by Perry Stein, Steve Hendrix and Abigail Hauslohner was posted on the Washington Post website January 22, 2017:

More than 1 million people gathered in Washington and in cities around the country and the world Saturday to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inauguration of President Trump. What started as a Facebook post by a Hawaii retiree became an unprecedented international rebuke of a new president that packed cities large and small — from London to Los Angeles, Paris to Park City, Utah, Miami to Melbourne, Australia.

The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, who originally sought a permit for a gathering of 200,000, said Saturday that as many as half a million people participated. On Sunday, Metro officials announced that Saturday was the second-busiest day in the Washington subway system’s history, with 1,001,613 trips. (By contrast, on Trump’s Inauguration Day, the system recorded 570,557 trips.) Continue reading “Women’s marches: More than one million protesters vow to resist President Trump”