Protest chants: #PhillyResistance and JFK

Noriko Manabe
2 min readJan 29, 2017

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(Updated to include January 29, 2017 protests at various airports)

It’s been a busy week of protests. From Wednesday evening through Friday (January 25–27), protesters in Philadelphia filled Center City near the Loews Hotel and 30th Street Station to confront the GOP retreat. Today, protesters chanted at JFK as people were detained over Trump’s Executive Order to block the entry of citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries. Here’s a set of transcribed chants from these protests.

First, readers had sent in a few more chants from the Women’s March last week.

“You’re orange, you’re gross, you lost the popular vote” — Washington Women’s March (from Maria Sonevytsky)

Here are some chants from the Philadelphia protests.

Here are the chants from the protest at JFK today (January 28).

With protests occurring nationwide, many more chants are emerging. Here’s one from Boston Logan Airport, likening Donald Trump to a terrorist:

If you have heard other chants you’d like to see transcribed, please leave them, along with a video or audio clip, in the comment section.

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Noriko Manabe

Music prof. Author of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima (OUP). Editor, 33-1/3 Japan. http://www.norikomanabe.com