Similar marches were organized in Portland, Oregon as well as in Silver Spring, Maryland, reflecting the emotions that are still running high one week after Trump's presidential win. The protest in Los Angeles took place despite calls by school officials for students not to walk out of classes and to find other ways to express their anger at the election result. Maryland school officials said the students all face disciplinary action unless they have an excused absence from their parents. "We will not accept Trump's sexism, racism, his put-down of LGBT folks," one student told the ABC7 news channel in Los Angeles on Monday. "I want to tell people that we don't want Donald Trump as our president," she told the Los Angeles Times.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 15, 2016 00:09 UTC