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Thursday, July 6, 2017
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NEWS
Ann Arbor residents call for Trump’s
impeachment in local demonstration
Protesters denounced
recent local action by
immigration officials
By DYLAN LACROIX
Summer Daily News Editor
Hundreds
of
community
members
organized
on
the
University
of
Michigan
Diag
Sunday
afternoon
to
partake
in
Ann
Arbor’s
Impeachment
March — one of many taking
place across the country today —
urging legislators to take action to
impeach President Donald Trump.
The march, which began on
the Diag around noon, made its
way down East Liberty Street in
downtown Ann Arbor and Main
Street and halted at South Division
Street and Liberty, where local
anti-Trump leaders, activists and
organizers convened to speak to
the crowd.
Art & Design senior Keysha
Wall,
former
presidential
candidate for Central Student
Government and one of many
speakers of the event, addressed
the activists before beginning the
march. She outlined the beliefs and
values for which the march stands,
emphasizing
Trump’s
alleged
violations of the U.S. Constitution
and
his
actionsundermining
human rights, as the energy for the
movement.
In
reference
to
a
recent
deportation raid effort of 114 Iraqi
Christians in Detroit — which has
been temporarily halted by U.S.
District Judge Mark Goldsmith —
Wall outlined how, as a movement,
they must stand up for immigrants.
“It will never be enough to only
be satisfied with the rhetoric in
these,” Wall said. “We come today
to explicitly denounce Trump’s
attack on immigrant communities
and undocumented peoples.”
Jessica Prozinski, co-founder
and leader of Stop Trump Ann
Arbor, a group that identifies itself
as “a united progressive social
movement” in resistance to the
Trump
Administration,
spoke
after the march stating if President
Trump is not impeached, the
existence of our political system is
at stake.
“Our democracy may not survive
four years of a Trump presidency,”
Prozinski said. “We can’t rely on
free and fair elections in four years
to get rid of Trump.”
Pointing to recent investigations
of foreign governments hacking into
the U.S. election system, Prozinski
stressed the urgency to take action
with government officials.
“This is surely a way that a
civilization
can
die,”
Prozinski
spoke.
“It
doesn’t
start
with
concentration camps, but without
brain and persistence and powerful
resistance, make no mistake, that
that is where it can end.”
Rocio Sias, who organizes for
human rights and has helped families
in jeopardy of being deported for
over five years, shared an emotional
narrative of her experiences as an
immigrant, fighting back agains
derogatory claims President Trump
has made in the past.
“I’m not a drug dealer, I’m not a
rapist, I’m just a regular citizen,”
Sias said. “I’m your neighbor, I love
this country who’s given me so many
opportunities.”
She went on to discuss how,
throughout her work with families
through
the
Human
Rights
Campaign
and
American
Civil
Liberties
Union,
she
believes
Trump’s
increased
deportation
efforts are tearing the country and
it’s people apart.
“I have witnessed so much
destruction from this man,” Sias
said. “This is not the country I
came to live in. He’s made so much
division, and its so sad and heart-
breaking, to see this all, because I
know Americans are great people.
He does not represent us, he does not
represent you.”
Local high schooler Amery Chao,
an organizer with Stop Trump
Ann
Arbor,
spoke
passionately
about continuing to resist against
the
Trump
Administration,
emphasizing the importance to
remain vigilant in fighting against
the
alleged
“systems”
Trump
manifests.
“The
danger
in
hinging
a
political movement on any single
political figure is that it fosters
the misconception that, once said
political figure is gone, our work is
done,” Chao spoke. “We are standing
against
everything
he
stands
for, perpetuates and represents.
We are standing up to racism,
nazisim, xenophobia, Islamophobia,
misogyny, queerphobia, transphobia,
nationalism, capitalism.”
LSA
freshman
Sophia
Tzavaras,
who
attended
the
Impeachment
March,
said
though many of the concerns
of the movement have no direct
impact on her own life, she still
feels obligated to support the
movement.
Read more at MichiganDaily.com
BEN HSU/DAILY
Protesters hold up signs at the Impeachment March in downtown Ann Arbor on
Sunday.