Former President, Barrack Obama’s daughter, Malia Obama has been pictured as she joined rally protesting President Trump’s plan to revive the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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.
Malia Obama joins Dakota Access pipeline protest at Sundance https://t.co/8RtAHZ9jQV pic.twitter.com/o7aboCYycG
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The group braved the blistering cold and heavy snowfall as they held up signs reading “Exist. Resist. Rise.” and “Impeach corporate control”.
The 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”.