Lucy Blanchard | Staff<\/a><\/p>\nSince President Donald Trump\u2019s reelection, Berkeley community members have been meeting at the corner of College and Ashby avenues to protest, according to community member Andrew Lazarus, a UC Berkeley alum who graduated in 1989.The weekly demonstration is organized by Indivisible Elmwood, a community group founded by Lazarus and Naomi Janowitz.<\/p>\n
Local Berkeley businesses also participated in a walkout from 3-4 p.m., later joining the weekly protest.Businesses that participated included Koraa, Slash Denim and 5 Tacos and Beers, among many others.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Claudia Hunka, the owner of Your Basic Bird, said she decided to help organize the walkout with less than 48 hours notice. Some businesses walked out for an hour, while others closed their doors for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur usual crowd has mostly been people in their 70s and 80s \u2026 and that\u2019s been very disappointing to me. A lot of us people have been protesting since the Vietnam War \u2026 (but today) it was very encouraging for us to see young people organize.\u201d Lazarus said.<\/p>\n
About 200 residents held up signs, handed out chocolate, gave away printed patches and passed out informational flyers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all hurt by this, we are all touched by this,\u201d Hunka said. \u201cIt\u2019s good to see people standing up and making their voices heard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As a part of the demonstration, Hunka created orange hearts that she gave to community members, with the names and photos of those who have been killed by ICE officers.<\/p>\n
Hunka said she was proud of the Elmwood community for attending. She felt that it was important to make a statement regarding ICE operations taking place across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t give up hope. Our generation is going to be leaving soon and it will be up to them to do better.\u201d Lazarus added on his message for UC Berkeley students.<\/p>\n
Ria Raniwala also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of UC Berkeley students and community members participated Friday in a National Day of Action protesting U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[78330,73654,78324,78323,3767,9688,78312,78314,9306,30098,33211,78327,78322,78313,78331,78318,29028,78321,2871,14328,78325,63761,46515,78320,47,78315,47556,4226,78311,78326,66644,78319,78316,143,145,42861,144,78310,101,78329,76041,30097,516,78317,78328],"class_list":["post-161318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-5-tacos-and-beers","tag-alex-pretti","tag-andrew-lazarus","tag-ashby-ave","tag-bart","tag-berkeley-high-school","tag-berkeley-law-for-palestine","tag-betzy-kammila-herrarte","tag-busd","tag-cal-young-democratic-socialists-of-america","tag-cecelia-lunaparra","tag-claudia-hunka","tag-college-ave","tag-crescent-lawn","tag-day-of-truth-and-freedom","tag-east-bay-innovation-academy","tag-elmwood","tag-gavin-mcgowan","tag-ice","tag-igor-tregub","tag-indivisible-elmwood","tag-keith-porter","tag-koraa","tag-liam-ramos","tag-los-angeles","tag-mia-ochoa","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-mission-dolores-park","tag-naomi-janowitz","tag-national-day-of-action","tag-nicole-may","tag-nicole-miech","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-high-school","tag-oakland-news","tag-rene-good","tag-san-francisco","tag-slash-denim","tag-students-for-socialism","tag-students-organizing-for-liberation","tag-vietnam-war","tag-willard-middle-school","tag-your-basic-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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