Former
President, Barrack Obama's daughter, Malia has been pictured as she
joined rally protesting President Trump's plan to revive the Dakota
Access Pipeline.
Four days after her father, Barrack Obama vacated the Oval Office
as American President, 18-year-old Malia Obama, made it clear just how
disappointed she was in the new commander-in-chief, Donald Trump, by
joining a rally protesting the president's plans to revive the Dakota
Access pipeline project.
According to Dailymail,
the teenage student, who will be heading off to Harvard University
later this year, was one of approximately 100 people who gathered on
Main Street at the Sundance Film Festival to let it be known how upset
she was with President Trump's plan to move forward with the
controversial transport system.
The group braved the blistering cold and heavy snowfall as they held up signs reading 'Exist. Resist. Rise.' and 'Impeach corporate control.'
That first sign expressed the group's solidarity with Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe, while the second expressed their displeasure with the
Sundance Film Festival for allowing Chase Bank to be a sponsor of their
event due to the fact that they are invested in the pipeline.
This is why the rally was held directly in front of the Chase Sapphire on Main Lounge.
Hollywood actress, Shailene Woodley, who has been using her
celebrity for much of the past two years to bring awareness to this
cause, revealed that Malia had attended the rally in an interview with
Democracy Now.
'It was amazing to see Malia. I saw her last night when we did
the event with Chairman Dave Archambault. And it was incredible to see
her there,' said Woodley, 25, when asked about the former first daughter's very public support of the cause.
She went on to say: 'Also, to witness a human being and a woman
coming into her own outside of her family and outside of the
attachments that this country has on her, but someone who’s willing to
participate in democracy because she chooses to, because she recognizes,
regardless of her last name, that if she doesn’t participate in
democracy, there will be no world for her future children.'
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