Residents gathered Sunday around the Bay Area to mark International Women\u2019s Day, showing out in support of immigrant women amid heavy criticism of the Trump administration\u2019s push for deportation and the war in Iran.<\/p>\n
Rallies were planned to take place in cities across the Bay Area, including in San Jose and Oakland.<\/p>\n
Shortly before noon, hundreds of protesters gathered near Oakland\u2019s Lake Merritt with signs reading \u201cNo one is illegal on stolen land\u201d and \u201cU.S. out of everywhere\u201d in preparation for a march.<\/p>\n
The gatherings came in the wake of the United States and Israel launching a joint war against Iran<\/a> at the end of last month, bombing several sites and killing high-ranking officials in the country\u2019s government, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Strikes on the country have continued over the past week as Iran has launched its own attacks<\/a> on U.S. military infrastructure in neighboring countries in the Middle East.<\/p>\n The military action sent shockwaves across the country, including in the Bay Area, where the local Iranian community was torn between feelings of shock and fear, and celebration of the death of Khamenei<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other issues on the minds of protesters include the Trump administration\u2019s crackdown on immigration, which has sparked protests of its own across the region in recent weeks, including student walkouts<\/a>. Protesters gathered outside Elmwood Jail in Milpitas Wednesday to push back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s strategy of picking up people as they are released from jail<\/a>. The deportation of a deaf child to Colombia alongside his mother and brother was decried last week<\/a> after attorneys for the family said that they had been under asylum protection and were detained during a routine check-in appointment.<\/p>\n This is a developing report. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents gathered Sunday around the Bay Area to mark International Women\u2019s Day, showing out in support of immigrant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,7,332,181,23,143,145,144,7361,88,198,200],"class_list":["post-210661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-east-bay","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-protests","tag-san-jose","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210661","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=210661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}