Parents, grandparents and others lined El Camino Real during the 17×17 Labor Day rally; younger people were scarce. The protest aimed to line up 17,000 people for 17 miles of El Camino Real in a safe, civil and welcoming environment. Elders appeared to far outnumber teens and people in their 20s. Attendees cited defending gay marriage, immigration, Medicaid, fear of ICE raids, cuts to science and research funding, reductions to federal student loans, and opposition to administration positions on Gaza and Ukraine. Democrats, labor unions and other groups planned nearly 1,000 protests in all 50 states.
Parents, grandparents and others their age lined El Camino Real during Monday's 17×17 Labor Day rally - as in previous anti-Trump protests. But where were the younger people? At the protest, aiming to line up 17,000 people for 17 miles of El Camino Real in a safe, civil and welcoming environment, elders seemed to far outnumber teens and people in their 20s. Kristina Schmidt, 63, a bookkeeper from San Jose, said she was in attendance to defend several causes such as gay marriage, immigration and Medicaid.
Mallika Ghante, 18, a student at UCLA, turned out with her parents to protest cuts to science and research funding at her university, which she said has closed down lab opportunities for students who are doing vital work. "I'm out here today to demand that he return that funding," she said, referring to Trump. Every day, she wakes up to find something else objectionable from the Trump administration, like cuts to federal student loans or its positions on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
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