Wednesday, 23 January 2019

‘Onslaught of outrage’: resistance and activism reawaken in Trump era

Two years since his inauguration, millions of Americans have built on recent movements such as Black Lives Matter to rally, march and strike against the president

For 125 days last year, Ashley Weitz stood with her four-year-old son on a quiet corner near their home in Salt Lake City for one hour daily to protest Donald Trump.

This was unusual for a woman who had mostly ignored the wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s unprecedented behavior in the White House, occupied instead by the full-time task of being a disabled, single mother. But when his administration separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the border last summer as part of its immigration crackdown, Weitz erupted – a line had been crossed and she felt acutely the privilege in her life.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2CFYz3d

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