Nearly 300 US students in Boston, Massachusetts, have walked out of classes and marched to the City Hall to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s policy proposals.
Holding handwritten signs and shouting anti-Trump chants, about 285 students from local high schools and colleges, as well as other activists, staged a rally on Monday to protest the incoming president’s “harmful policies.”
Participants walked out of classes around 1 pm, and began gathering in the downtown area around 2 pm, with plans to march to the state Capitol, and then to City Hall, the Boston Globe reported.
“Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States and we have the right to protest and stand together against the inexcusable statements he has made about, and the harmful policies he promises to enact against, immigrants, Muslims, black Americans, the disabled and women,” according to the Facebook event page.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh has said he supports the…