2016年11月17日（6年前）
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They’re angry. They’re afraid. They’re upset that Donald Trump is going to be their next president.
But many of the protesters who took to the streets in cities across the country over the past week didn’t cast a ballot for the candidate who could have beaten him.
Instead of voting for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, dozens of protesters in cities from Philadelphia to Portland, Ore., said in interviews this week that they had cast ballots for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, wrote in Sen. Bernie Sanders or, in some cases, failed to vote at all. The NBC affiliate in Portland found that of more than 100 protesters arrested there last week, more than half did not vote in the state. (Clinton still won Oregon, along with most of the other states where the biggest protests have erupted.)
So rather than protesting Clinton’s loss, people have cited more varied reasons for joining the protests. In addition to voicing opposition to Trump, they say they are expressing anger with the entire political system and their desire to force dramatic change on a host of social and economic fronts.
“The protesting Trump has to do with the emotion that we’re all feeling,” said Ashley Ember, 27, who said she wrote Sanders on her ballot in Philadelphia. If Clinton had won, Ember said, she would have protested that, too.
Protesters in Washington on Tuesday. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg)
A roiling movement across the country
Since Election Day, thousands of people have taken to the streets nationwide. Demonstrations surged in the days after Trump’s election, though they seem now to be ebbing. Police say the demonstrations have been largely peaceful, though there have been outbursts of violence in Portland, Oakland and Indianapolis.
The protesters have earned the ire of Trump and his surrogates, who have insulted them on television and social media, calling them paid professionals “incited by the media,” jobless “crybabies,” people with mental disorders and “goons.”
But a week after Trump’s unexpected victory, protests that appeared at first as a denunciation of the president-elect have largely given way to more diffuse expressions of frustration among America’s left.
[‘It’s now or never’: How anti-Trump protests spread across the U.S.]
A new group calling itself Portland’s Resistance published 22 demands ranging from “clean air and water” and “safe streets” to halting the construction of a local Nestlé factory. In Philadelphia, a group called the Socialist Alternative convened more than 100 people for a Monday night meeting on the perils of capitalism and climate change. And in Atlanta and several other cities, anti-Trump marches shifted gears this week into protests focused on the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
“People are there for all different reasons —[there are] signs saying, ‘Not my president,’ but also ‘Viva La Raza,’ ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ‘hella queer folks,’” said Debbie Southern, a Chicago activist who joined an anti-Trump protest on a whim and wouldn’t say who she voted for.
“It’s really encouraging,” said Southern, 27. “Like, Whoa, we all see each other right now. We see our different struggles are linked up and connected.”
[D.C. students walk out of class to protest Trump]
Most of the protesters interviewed were in their 20s and appeared to gravitate toward far left politics. In Portland, roughly half of those arrested were 25 or younger. Here are some of their stories:
Gary Thomas, 24, Philadelphia
Gary Thomas recently lost his job as a janitor in Philadelphia. On Election Day, he said he cast his vote for Stein, though the Green Party candidate was polling in the single digits and was given little chance of victory.
Thomas, who is gay and African American, said he could not bring himself to vote for Clinton. “She didn’t represent me as a person,” he said. “She didn’t connect with me. Bernie Sanders did. I felt like he was speaking from his heart, and for the first time, I felt connected to politics.”
The day after Trump’s victory, Thomas took to the streets with a sign reading, “F— Trump.” And on Monday night, he listened as Philadelphia area socialists talked about the need for a vibrant American third party, and an upcoming march to demand a higher minimum wage.
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Anti-Trump demonstrations in Philadelphia mark a third night of protest across the country against the president-elect. (Reuters)
Lamon Reccord, 17, Chicago
Lamon Reccord was too young to vote in this year’s election, but that didn’t stop him from protesting.
Reccord, who is black and grew up on Chicago’s South Side, has been involved in voter registration drives and political activism since he was in middle school. If he could have voted, he said he probably would have chosen Stein, who he said he’s “more sold on.” But Reccord said he would still rather see Clinton in office than Trump, a man who, Reccord said, “promotes racism.”
Last Friday, Reccord rallied his friends on Facebook, calling on them to meet outside Chicago’s Trump Tower. He did the same on Monday.
“The end goal is to get Donald Trump out of office. To make sure he officially doesn’t become the president of the United States of America,” Reccord said. “We do not need a president who promotes racism, who inappropriately touches women. And trying to send 3 million illegal immigrants back home, I also consider racist.”
長引く消費低迷で、多くの国民が不満を持っている日本ですが、この米国の状況と比較するのは、あまり意味をなさないと思いますが、他人種、他民族の集合体で、民主義の総本山のアメリカでのこの全米規模での抗議デモの根幹にある問題を良く分析し、良く理解した上で、日本のあるべき理想の社会構造、大衆文化、未来志向の民主主義、資本主義のあるべき姿を考えたいですね！！
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Nov 17. 2016