YAL at the University of California-San Deigo

The newly updated chapter at USCD conducted a protest of Nancy Pelosi and her policy choices. I will let Ankur Chawla, the new YAL chapter president,  explain the feeling of the day:

The Nancy Pelosi protest up in Irvine, CA was our first real event as an official UCSD-YAL club.  It was funny because we had an officer meeting the day before where we kind of spontaneously decided to drive up to Irvine with some SDSU-YAL students for the Nancy Pelosi protest as a celebration to kick start our club approval.

When we got to the hotel where the protest was taking place, we met John Dennis, Pelosi's opponent in the 2010 elections.

And boy oh boy was the protest growing.  People were showing up by the droves.  There was so much support at the protest that it really gave me a good feeling about the things us "little people" can accomplish if we stand together.  There must have been upwards of 300 people surrounding the hotel, all yelling as policemen wearily eyed and even took video footage of the protest.