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Indivisible Youth hosted a May Day rally last Friday in Pleasanton where roughly 150 people gathered at the Amador Valley Community Park to voice their frustrations with many aspects of President Donald Trump’s administration.
The rally, according to an event organizer, was one of several thousands that took place nationwide as a way to “defy corporate America with economic disruption and uphold true values of democracy.”
“The rally successfully united communities and engaged youth in the Tri-Valley to protest corporate America, the expansion of ICE into our communities, and firmly upholding values of democracy in the United States,” Dylan Williams, one of the organizers, told the Weekly.
According to Williams, Indivisible Youth is a branch of the larger Indivisible grassroots network that aims to civically engage with younger people in the Tri-Valley and greater East Bay on social and political issues going on in the country.
Last week’s rally, which was led by local activists and leading members of the youth organization, featured speeches from State Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-Fremont) as well as youth activists Freyjaa Kirti of Granada High School and Greta Fick-Furlotte of Livermore High School.
“We stood together to call for taxing the rich so that our families — not their fortunes — come first, to say no to ICE, war, and unchecked private armies, and to fight for expanded democracy instead of growing corporate power,” Indivisible Tri-Valley stated in its newsletter Tuesday.
Wahab, in particular, spoke against reports that the federal government might repurpose a shuttered prison in Dublin into a immigration detention facility and talked about the “sad realities of immigration detainees in ICE facilities”.
“Indivisible Youth’s rally in particular protested corporate America, alike to the thousands of other protests, but also the reopening of the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin,” Williams said.
