Street-level opposition to the Trump administration, 2017

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Days after the 2016 election, politicians, organizations, and others began to strategize about opposing Republican President Donald Trump's policies and administration. This page chronicles street-level tactics to oppose Trump's policy agenda. The opposition strategies outlined below are tactics that have been reported by notable, reliable sources. This page was last updated in June 2017.

Street-level opposition

Marches

• On December 27, 2016, the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project, an organization aiming to close detention centers nationwide, said it intended to oppose Trump's proposed immigration actions by "going out into the streets and doing rallies and actions and showing up to the Million Woman March and doing public appearances to show that LGBTQ and HIV-positive people have presence in this community and are not backing down."
• The Women's March on Washington was a peaceful demonstration for the day after Trump's inauguration as president. According to the march's website, the event was planned in response to what it called "rhetoric of the past election cycle [that] has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us." The group's website explained the reasons for the march: "In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights." The march in Washington, D.C., occurred at the same time as women's marches in cities across the U.S., including New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; Phoenix, Arizona; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Key West, Florida.
• DisruptJ20—a group of Washington, D.C., activists—planned organized protests of Trump's inaugural events. Ahead of the January 20, 2017, inauguration, the group's website stated, "We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over. It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule." The protests were aimed at shutting down entrances to the inauguration events, and some of the protesters were involved in altercations with Trump supporters during the ceremonies.
• On January 28 and 29, 2017, a number of protests were organized independently at airports across the United States to oppose a Trump executive order. The order indefinitely banned Syrian travel to the U.S., halted all refugee admission to the U.S. for 120 days, and ceased all immigration or travel activity to the United States for people from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.
• February 16, 2017, was billed as A Day Without Immigrants, a protest that asked legal and undocumented immigrants to stay home from work in response to Trump's immigration policies. The protest was organized through social media and asked immigrant workers and students to not attend work, attend school, or shop.
• On April 15, 2017, Tax Day marches were organized in 12 cities around the country, with the largest happening in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York City. The marches were, in part, organized by the Working Families Party to protest Trump's decision to not release his tax returns to the public voluntarily. According to a spokesman for the Working Families Party, the marches were organized because of public interest in potential conflicts of interest concerning the president.
• On June 11, 2017, LGBTQ activists organized the Equality March in Washington, D.C., an event that was replicated in about 100 cities across the country. Reporting on the march, Time wrote in June 2017, "Activists have been embittered by the Trump administration's rollback of federal guidance advising school districts to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice."

Community organizations

Indivisible

• Indivisible, a volunteer organization, was organized in December 2016 with the publication of Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda. The guide, written by former congressional staffers, was written as "a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve."

Black Lives Matter Global Network

See also: Black Lives Matter

• The Black Lives Matter Global Network, a group of organizations affiliated with Black Lives Matter, began opposing Trump's agenda through public education and training sessions for those choosing to protest the administration. Beginning during the week of Trump's inauguration, chapters of the network taught informational sessions on Trump's agenda as well as "Know Your Rights" training sessions. According to Mother Jones, the group partnered with legal experts to inform protesters on "everything from protest permit laws in DC to what a person's rights are when police give a dispersal order, and how to conduct yourself in jail if you do ultimately get arrested."
• The Washington, D.C., chapter had also planned a public information campaign designed to oppose Mayor Muriel Bowser's (D) plan to increase law enforcement hiring to combat the city's crime rate.

Campaign Zero

• Campaign Zero, an organization that advocating policy changes on policing, began organizing its opposition to Trump's agenda through state and local laws. The organization, according to Mother Jones, began to push for two specific types of laws: those "that empower state attorneys general to open civil rights investigations into local police departments" and those "that require a vote by a city council before a police department can accept military equipment from the federal government."

See also

• Opposition to the Trump administration