Women protest against Trump/Pence, rally voters around Southern California

Hundreds attend the Los Angeles Women’s March from Pershing Square to City Hall on Saturday, October 17, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG) Thousands of women nationwide rallied Saturday, including in downtown Los Angeles and Orange County, focusing on women’s reproductive issues, getting out the vote and protesting the Trump Administration’s efforts to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Hundreds of women and some men, wearing face masks and attempting to socially distance, marched from Pershing Square to Los Angeles City Hall, including several women dressed as handmaids as depicted in a fictional television series about a totalitarian society ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state. The women wore signs reading, “Trump/Pence Out Now” and “Rebel Handmaid Squad.”

Others marching were shown on video carrying signs reading, “The flies can’t do it alone,” “History is Watching” and “Boys will be feminists.” In Seal Beach, demonstrators jammed Main Street as cars squeezed past pedestrians. Jennifer Corday, an unemployed singer/songwriter, sang such tunes as “I Am Woman” by Helen Reddy, who died last month, and Gloria Gaynor’s anthem, “I will survive.” At one point, a Trump supporter rode by on […]

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