Anti-Trump Rally

Wednesday, November 9th I went downtown Syracuse to an Anti-Trump Rally where a handful of people spoke out of over 100 people about not liking the election results or what they thought was bad about our president elect: Donald Trump. The Center For Community Alternatives, The Syracuse Peace Council, and a few other organizations were there had signs stating their positions. One of the reasons people were angry was because Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 1 million votes, even know Donald Trump got close to 60 more electoral votes. One person spoke about immigration and made the point that everyone that lives in the United States of America was at one time an immigrant, also someone related the abolitionist movement to today's racism. The event lasted for about an hour.

This is a video my mom broadcasted live from the protest.



Syracuse.com Article

Protest: Say No To Solitary Confinement Of Youth

On October 20^th I went to an event outside of the Syracuse Justice Center, protesting Kids being abused in solitary confinement, or kid’s being in it at-all. At the protest people gave speeches that some of the people inside of solitary made. Here is a Blog Article about the issue

At the protest I also got a pin saying “Lift us up, don’t push us out” from The Center of Community Alternatives, an organization seeking to reduce incarceration. They organized the protest and were giving away t-shirts and other merchandise with other statements written on them about the issue. This is a News Article about the protest.

Interview With The Syracuse Peace Council

Sunday, October 10:

I went to the headquarters of the Syracuse Peace Council, "An Organization dedicated to educate, agitate and organize for a world where war, violence and exploitation in any form will no longer exist" for an interview. Then I was invited a week or so later to the protest that I will tell about in my next blog post: Protest Against Solitary Confinement. At my interview I met with Brian Escobar, an Employee of the Syracuse Peace Council. With me a brought home a bunch of pamphlets about issues like: the cleaning of Onondaga Lake, the Palestinians, and the Nuclear Weapons Program. I took them home, read them, and might make new pamphlets about the same issues but for Kids so that they could understand them better.

(More About The Syracuse Peace Council)