A President’s Day demonstration, February 17 at the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier “to protest the demise of our government,” wrote Annie Gaillard on social media. “Wind chill -10. Around 500 folks braved those temps as well as shoveling out from the big snowstorm to get there.” photo courtesy social mediaArea residents (from left) Hardwick’s Lucinda Rochester, Woodbury’s Carol Ray, Jan Brough from Calais and Cacky Peltz from Woodbury brave frigid wind chill temperatures to join a President’s Day protest against the many executive orders signed since Donald Trump’s inauguration, February 17 at the Vermont Statehouse photo by Carolyn StewartProtesters at the Vermont Statehouse, President’s Day, February 17, after a weekend snowstorm, contend with blowing snow and below zero windchill. photo by Terry AllenWalden’s Annie Gaillard carries a sign at a President’s Day statehouse protest in Montpelier, Monday, Feb. 17. “We will wrestle our country back from the oligarchs!” she said. photo by Terry AllenDozens of citizens gather at the Vermont statehouse in Montpelier “in a more organized rally than on February 5, with speakers and chants and many more signs hoisted in the chilly air, Monday, Feb. 17,” said Woodbury’s Carolyn Stewart. “It’s meaningful to people in every corner of the world because we’re all in this together and every voice matters,” photo by Carolyn Stewart
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