{"id":9365,"date":"2016-11-15T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/candlelight-vigil-protests-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-11-15T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T09:26:20","slug":"candlelight-vigil-protests-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/candlelight-vigil-protests-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Candlelight vigil protests Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014 <\/strong>Dozens of people gathered in downtown Fairbanks on Sunday to peacefully protest the election of Donald Trump with a candlelight vigil.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 people of various ages and backgrounds attended the vigil, which was meant to show unity after a divisive national election, The Daily News-Miner reported. It was also meant to support the many groups who felt targeted by Trump\u2019s campaign trail rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Arturo Greenlaw, one of the event\u2019s organizers, said it was about the community and coming together in love and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the speakers expressed fear that Trump\u2019s election will be used as justification for individual acts of hate and violence throughout the country. Alyssa Quintyne recounted being targeted for harassment after the election, which she said she never experienced in the 14 years she\u2019s been in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose actions and fear are not acceptable and we should not let them become acceptable,\u201d she said, urging everyone to stand up against hate.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, people handed out safety pins, an emerging symbol of solidarity with victims of racism, sexism and homophobia<\/p>\n<p>Another speaker was Ana Richards, who grew up in Panama but has lived in Fairbanks for more than a decade. She said she was shamed for the color of her skin when she was a child and told people to learn about those who are different from themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no option to get out of my comfort zone to survive,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to encourage you to do it, too. We have more in common than we have different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 Dozens of people gathered in downtown Fairbanks on Sunday to peacefully protest the election of Donald Trump with a candlelight vigil. More than 60 people of various ages and backgrounds attended the vigil, which was meant to show unity after a divisive national election, The Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported. It was also meant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}