Anti-Trump Activists Look To Replicate Chicago Success
CHICAGO (AP) -- College students, civil rights activists and other opponents of Donald Trump's Republican presidential candidacy are celebrating their success in shutting down his rally Friday night in Chicago.
The question now is whether activists elsewhere - enraged by Trump's heated language on immigrants and minorities- will look to Chicago as a model when it comes to other Trump appearances, such as one scheduled Saturday night in Kansas City, Missouri.
Here's a look at how activists quickly organized Friday's protests and whether a sustained protest movement might be in the works:
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CONDITIONS WERE RIPE
Trump ran into a vibrant community of student activists and civil- and immigrant-rights campaigners that has experience in organizing mass demonstrations and was energized by recent scandals over Chicago police shootings of young black men. The arena where the event took place is at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a diverse, big-city campus.
"We have a lot of groups that Trump and his campaigners attack, including Muslims, immigrants, undocumented people, Mexicans, blacks, the LGBT community," said Juan Rojas, a 19-year-old neuroscience pre-med student and one of the protest organizers.
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