FresnoBee – Up to 200 people gathered at Woodward Park near Audubon Drive and Friant Road on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive orders restricting travelers from predominantly Muslim countries and defunding organizations that provide abortion services.
Protesters gathered at 4 p.m. holding signs that read “resist,” “impeach Trump” and “love wins.”
“It’s about his (Trump’s) executive orders, like the Dakota Access Pipeline, the international gag order on abortion and the Muslim ban that recently got overturned, and a lot more – homophobia, his Cabinet,” said Sophia Bautista who organized the #RESIST protest.
Trump’s actions concerning reviving the Dakota Access pipeline and reinstating a policy barring U.S. funding to organizations that provide abortions were presidential memorandums, not executive orders.
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