ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2017 photo, Franki Velez looks at her son Ashoka Little, 1, in their home in Oakland, Calif. An Iraq War veteran who says she is on disability for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Velez is a full-time activist who is simultaneously cheered by and worried about the post-Trump infusion of more traditional liberals eager to protest. "I see a lot of liberal people talking about reforming the system," said Velez, whose parents are Puerto Rican and whose mother's family was shipped to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations. "They don't understand it's a colonial system that's never meant to be reformed." (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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