Ex-President Barack Obama’s daughter, Malia Obama, was reportedly
spotted among protesters, protesting against President Trump’s plan to
revive the Dakota Access Pipeline Project.
The 18-year-old girl, who will be in Havard later this year, was among
approximately 100 people who took to Main Street at the Sundance Film
Festival while it was still snowing, to show their dissatisfaction with
President Trump’s decision to move ahead with the controversial
transport system, with placards reading ‘Exist. Resist. Rise.’ and ‘Impeach corporate control.’
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| Shailene Woodley |
It was however, Shailene Woodley, who has been campaigning for the cause
using her celebrity status, that told Democracy Now, that Malia was
part of the protesters.
‘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.’
