Hundreds of demonstrators, including over 200 from UCLA, filled the streets of Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon as part of a nationwide “Kill the Cuts” rally.
Organizers billed it as a national day of action to raise awareness and fight against the government’s proposed cuts to federal research, health and education.
About 4,000 people RSVP’d to the local protest.
Sky5 was overhead as hundreds of education, labor and health activists circled a Westwood intersection, blocking traffic on Veteran Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard.
The UCLA Police Department alerted drivers of the rally’s impact on traffic in an X post, saying, “UAW 4811 notified they plan to march southbound from Bruin Plaza to Westwood Plaza, westbound Kinross, southbound Veteran, to the Federal Building. Traffic may be impacted. Consider alternate routes.”
One organizer told KTLA that this march was in reaction to the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to state and federal funding, which “could gouge a multi-billion dollar hole in UC’s budget – cuts that would stall or end lifesaving research, medical care, and education.”
Participants hope the protests will put pressure on elected officials to fight back against President Trump’s actions.
“By cutting funds to lifesaving research and medical care, the Trump administration is abandoning families who are suffering and costing taxpayers billions of dollars,” said Rafael Jaime, president of UAW 4811, one of the organizers of the national event. “These cuts are dangerous to our health, and dangerous to our economy.”
