Thousands of demonstrators continued to march in cities across the country on Thursday, unwilling to accept Tuesday’s upset election of Donald Trump.

Condemning the president-elect’s litany of crude comments about women and his attacks on immigrants, demonstrators marched along city streets, blocked intersections, burned effigies and, in some places, gathered outside buildings bearing Trump’s name.

“Not my president,” chanted some of the protesters, while others waved signs with the same message.

Their concerns included policies, such as Trump’s proposed plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as rhetoric that many described as xenophobic.

At a student rally Thursday at the University of California at Berkeley, several hundred students watched as faculty members took turns speaking.

“People make choices, and choices make history. We can be bystanders, or we can be upstanders,” said Rucker Johnson, an associate professor of public policy.

As the president-elect met with congressional leaders on Thursday afternoon, more than 100 protesters staged a sit-in outside the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Police nationwide made dozens of arrests — most of them in New York — late Wednesday through Thursday, according to police officials. Although most of the demonstrations were peaceful, police in Oakland, Calif., said that a rally there turned violent when some in the massive crowd threw rocks and fireworks at police officers, injuring three of them. People in Trump’s circle said they were monitoring the unrest and had expected such activity after the election.

On Thursday, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani said the protesters were “a bunch of spoiled crybabies.”

In Oakland, police said the crowd of demonstrators eventually grew to about 7,000 and began to splinter into smaller groups, some of which vandalized buildings.

Authorities reported 16 cases of vandalism, including graffiti and looting, with “numerous trash fires in the streets.” (About 40 fires were extinguished by police and fire officials.) Police said they arrested 30 people and issued an additional 11 citations for vandalism, unlawful assembly and assault on an officer.

MoveOn.org, a liberal group, had called on people to gather in cities nationwide. Ben Wikler, MoveOn’s Washington director, said that people had registered to organize events in 275 cities and communities across the country, noting that many were candlelight vigils and group discussions rather than the sprawling marches seen in New York and Chicago.

“A lot of people reacted to the election results with a kind of plodding feeling, like they wanted to curl up under their desks or hide under their sheets,” Wikler said Thursday.

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