On Friday, February 6, Eleanor Roosevelt High School students walked out of their classes to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Several students traveled off campus to take their grievances to the streets, while many other students remained on campus. Many moments from this peaceful protest were captured below.

Max Neimeyer, who organized the walkout, was photographed right after the final speaker concluded her address. He is captured beaming moments before being interviewed for ERHS News, and before that, he proudly declared, “Nobody is illegal on stolen land.”

Students were captured walking across campus, chanting and displaying their signs for all to see during first lunch.

At the beginning of the protest, students poured out of classrooms with signs, gathering on the stairs of the clock tower.

Before the guest speakers took center stage, students displayed a variety of flags on the top of the steps. One student displayed a Mexican flag, holding it high for all to see, and a moment like this was captured as the flag was snagged by a breeze.

The final speaker, Araneh Sanchez, ended the walkout with an emotional poem she composed for this specific event. She spoke about the science-fiction in the beginning of her poem, and she powerfully said, “Until I realized I was considered the alien.”

Another speaker spoke about the deportation experiences within his family, and this emotional moment was captured.