” We need six more years to put our sh*t up.”
Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst staged a” Walkout Against Trump” a week ago to “demonize the election’s economic effects.”
The Sunrise Movement UMass show, which finally met up with individuals from local Amherst High School, was emulated by other organizations including the University of Delaware, the University of North Carolina, and Oberlin College, according to the Daily Collegian.
With Donald Trump’s win in the November 5 vote, organizer of the environmental group, which was established seven decades by a UMass graduate, half told the audience that” things got a bunch worse.”
” We have six years to get our sh*t together, and our president in]a ] few months does n’t believe the climate is changing”, he said.
Post added” We voted, it did n’t work. Now we organize]and ] we strike. We must stand up for one another. To examine in with and support one another, we must create strong areas.
UMass Student Government Association President Colin Humphries informed the crowd he was elected to” serve and protect” students, stating” I am not]going to ] let no one]sic ] come to this campus and tell us what is best for our students”.
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Ryan Darbhanga, a junior economy big and the solicitor general for SGA, also spoke to the masses.
” I want to tell you that I will fight for every single student’s legal rights on this campus, no matter who you are ]or ] what political affiliation you are”, Darbhanga said. ” This is the women’s war, this is our battle … I myself have turned so far left and I’m glad of it … after your rights are taken away, there’s no going back”.
” I’m angry, I’m scared”, Julie Powers, an 18-year-old science big said. I worry that if I actually need to have an abortion, some of my friends worry about their kids or their parents getting deported. I know that heavy in my heart I feel something’s going to shift if we fight back – if we organize”.
Around 3: 20 p. m., just over 20 higher school arrived in Amherst Town Center. Without the assistance of a university part, the group of students left during their last day of classes and traveled through downtown Amherst.
Sunrise Newark, U. Delaware’s unit of the group, posted on Instagram regarding the election that “even in the darkest of times, light did return”.
It also posted about a November 20″ Election Post-Mortem Townhall” which features the following graphic:
Further: The Sunrise Movement demands a” climate emergency” from Columbia.
IMAGES: Photographee. eu/Shutterstock .com, Sunrise Newark/Instagram
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