Centre of discontent: behind the barricades at Trump Tower
In the week the US installed its controversial 45th president, Siobhán Brett spends time with the colourful band of protesters refusing to give up their vigil at Trump's Fifth Avenue home in New York
Signs of the times: Barbara Smucker holds a placard in the protest pen across the road from Trump Tower on New York's Fifth Avenue
Protests ebb and flow in New York City. All the time, across its five boroughs, up and down its avenues. Groups of workers, writers, Black Lives Matter activists, students, women, men, people who are anti-fur, people who are anti-Goldman Sachs, people who are railing against climate change.
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