Protesters go to Plan B after police make arrests and push them into Lafayette Park; make a break for the offices of the Heritage Foundation – PB/TK
Protesters storm Heritage Foundation building to call for ‘Budget for the People’ – By Joshua Eaton April 25 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On Tuesday, organizers and activists with the People’s Action coalition took to the White House and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, to protest proposed budget cuts they say will have a devastating impact on the environment, the poor, and communities of color.
An energetic crowd of around 1,000 people gathered between LaFayette Park and the White House on a gray, drizzly morning in the District to chant, drum, and listen to speeches from people on the front lines of budget cuts.
“The wall, the cuts to education, the cuts to housing — we’re protesting against it. Trump has to do better,” Lydia Rodriguez, 51, told ThinkProgress.
Rodriguez, co-chair of the Alliance for Quality Education in Rochester, New York, said schools in her community already lack funding they need for basics like books and language classes. But with a granddaughter in elementary school and son in high school, she worries what Trump’s budget cuts will mean for Rochester schools.
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