\u201cI can\u2019t just sit in my room and be sad,\u201d one young woman rooted firmly outside Trump Tower says. \u201cI have to be an activist now.\u201d Indeed, many of the people assembled this afternoon may have not considered themselves activists, but the election of Trump has effectively and rapidly inspired them toward action. With an emphasis on accountability \u2014 \u201cthere is no one to blame here but us,\u201d says a megaphone-aided protester \u2014 concerns and anger regarding a Trump Administration\u2019s potential policies and the effect they might have on already-marginalized groups of people are voiced. However, fierce, action-based optimism also shines through. \u201cAnother world is already being born,\u201d says another protestor. \u201cAnd we the people can see it clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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12\/16\/16 : TRUMP DAY-AFTER ELECTION ACTION At the \u201cWe Won’t Wait\u201d Anti-Trump rally, on the day after the election on November 9th, in New York\u2019s Columbus Circle, a group of people as diverse as the city they are protesting from gather to register their contempt for the incoming president in wake of an exceedingly turbulent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabrinaartel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}