
More than 1,500 angry California high school students have walked out of classes in Berkeley to protest the election of Donald Trump, chanting 'not our president,' as demonstrations were being held on college campuses around the country.

Berkeley Unified School District spokesman Charles Burress said about half of the school's 3,000 students left at the start of the first period on Wednesday and gathered in the school's courtyard.

Some students held anti-Trump signs that read 'Nasty Women Unite,' 'F*** Donald Trump' and 'No Deportation, No Profiling, No Brutality.' Others waved Mexican flags.

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Youth in revolt: Berkeley High School students begin to march after assembling in front of Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus in protest to the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States in Berkeley, California

Teen rage: More than 1,000 angry California high school students participated in a walk-out this morning

Nasty women unite: Two young women hold up a sign reading 'nasty women unite' in protest of Trump's win

Sign of change: Alice Bynum (C) stands with other Berkeley High School staff members and holds a sign while attending Wednesday's protest in Berkeley

A young man wearing a Berkeley High Class of 2016 shirt wipes away tears during a protest in response to the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States in Berkeley, California, U.S. November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage

Burress said classes were still going on for students who wanted to attend.

He said the district would prefer for students to stay in classes, but school officials understood that extraordinary circumstances prompted the protest. According to the administrator, some teachers demonstrated with students, though he could not estimate the number of staff joining in the action.

Young protesters took turns speaking at a microphone, with one student declaring: 'Donald Trump may be president, but we are going to make sure that this man, that he is going to prioritize the well being of the people, so please join us in this fight,' reported CBS SF.

Another female student told the large crowd: 'We're sitting here, setting our clocks back to 1950 electing this fool. You know? Trump honestly just makes us realize how much hate and ignorance is left,' according to a live stream of the demonstration on the social media app Periscope.

She said people of color were afraid about the potential for discrimination, and immigrant families were now worried about the threat of deportation threatened by Trump.

Making their voices heard: Berkeley High School students were heard chanting 'not our president.' The demonstration was live streamed on social media

Angry and frustrated students took turns speaking at the microphone to the crowd, railing agaisnt Donald Trump

After the demonstration, the students marched to the nearby University of California-Berkeley campus, where they were joined by dozens of college students.

Police say at least 500 people swarmed on streets in and around UCLA, some shouting expletives targeting the Republican president-elect.

Oakland police say they issued one citation but did not make any arrests.

Smaller demonstrators were held at University of California campuses and neighborhoods in Berkeley, Irvine and Davis and at San Jose State.

In Oakland, more than 100 protesters took to downtown streets. KNTV-TV reported that protesters burned Trump in effigy, smashed windows of the Oakland Tribune newsroom and set tires and trash on fire.

The California Highway Patrol says a woman was struck by a car during the protest and severely injured.

Students also walked out of classes in Seattle, Washington, where a group of about 100 protesters gathered in the Capital Hill neighborhood, blocked roads and set a trash bin on fire, while several hundred students at the University of Texas protested as well, according to local reports.

Anti-Trump rallies were planned later Wednesday in New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities, according to social media postings. A Facebook page for a protest scheduled for Manhattan's Union Square Park showed more than 8,000 people planned to attend.

Madeline Lopes, left, and Cassidy Irwin, both of Oakland, march with other protesters in downtown Oakland early Wednesday

Multiple fires were lit in dumpsters and trash cans during protests in downtown Oakland late Tuesday

A protester faces a police line in downtown Oakland early Wednesday after the election was called for Donald Trump

Protesters burned Trump in effigy, smashed windows of the Oakland Tribune newsroom and set tires and trash on fire

University of California, Davis students protest on campus in Davis, California, following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States

The demonstrations followed a night of protests around the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in the country in response to Trump's political upset.

Demonstrators smashed storefront windows and set garbage and tires ablaze late Tuesday in downtown Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. A few miles away, students at the University of California at Berkeley students protested on campus.

In Oregon, dozens of people blocked traffic in downtown Portland and forced a delay for trains on two light rail lines. Media reports said the crowd grew to about 300 people, including some who sat in the middle of the road to block traffic. The crowd of anti-Trump protesters burned American flags and chanted 'That's not my president.'