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Anniversary Of Donald Trump's Presidential Win Has Protesters Screaming

Brian Bull
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A year after his upset presidential victory, critics of Donald Trump took to the streets of Eugene today.  As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports, the protest went primal, fast…

About 30 people with the group, Indivisible Eugene, gathered near the federal courthouse, to decry the GOP tax bill, Trump’s cabinet picks, and the President’s inaction on gun control following mass shootings in Las Vegas and Texas.  

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About 30 people gathered for today's 'Primal Scream' protest.

With real and paper megaphones at the ready, anti-Trump activists let loose with what’s called “primal scream therapy”…a way to release pent-up frustration.

"AAAAAAAaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!”   

This went on….

“AAAAAaaaahhhh!!!”

…a couple more times…

“AAAAAaaaahh!!” 

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Anti-Trump protesters take a street corner near the federal courthouse to denounce the anniversary of Donald Trump's presidential victory.

Activists then took to the streets, asking drivers to honk for Trump’s impeachment.  Lin Woodrich says it’s been a rough, and regressive year for the country.

“It seems to be going backwards, the EPA, all the science deniers," Woodrich tells KLCC. 

"It…it just doesn’t make any sense.  We’re totally frustrated.” 

Not everyone honked in solidarity.  One man leaned out of a passing pickup to yell, “Build the wall!”

Copyright 2017, KLCC. 

Brian Bull is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, and remains a contributor to the KLCC news department. He began working with KLCC in June 2016.   In his 27+ years as a public media journalist, he's worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
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