Women’s March Santa Barbara held a final rally and march in the last few days before the election. The Women’s March started in January 2017 with the inauguration of Trump. Trump’s Supreme Court legacy continues to take rights away from women.
Here are my photos of the women and men who turned out for this rally and march in Santa Barbara.
World Dance for Humanity energized the crowd as people gathered.
Here they posed for a group photo.
Michal Lynch was emcee for the event, noting that there was no formal program. She invited people to speak ad hoc and it worked OK. She also noted that many people were out knocking on doors to get out the vote as she spoke.
Jonathan Abboud is President of the SBCC Board and he made an impassioned pitch to vote for Measure P to fund needed repairs and construction for the campus.
County Supervisor Laura Capps talked about the political gravity of our time.
Reverend Dr David Moore “leads Santa Barbara’s Beloved Community Church, and also Jesus Collective, an online community which exists to foster wholeness and equity by healing relationships and cultural divides, honoring the dignity of all peoples, and protecting the biodiversity of our planet, through actively listening, understanding, partnering, and serving” according to his web site.
He spoke about his journey from conservative Christian to liberal Christian.
I know MJ as a Solstice artist. She wanted to make a clear point: Congress should have exactly nothing to say with regard to regulating women’s bodies.
Sharon Byrne is a visible activist in the area on a range of issues. She is defiantly “independent” of either party. But she gave a full-throated endorsement of Kamala Harris.
The most powerful and memorable speech came from a woman who did not want to be identified. She had never shared her story in public before. Her mother’s mother died of a botched abortion back when abortion was illegal before Roe v Wade.
Her death left the children basically to raise each other with little or no guidance. The children had no role model for how to be good parents. The speaker’s younger brother went on to commit suicide. Would he still be alive without that death due to abortion being illegal? We can never know for sure. But she wanted people to know: Her grandmother’s death continues to affect people generations later. We can’t allow this history to repeat today.
My dear friend Gary Atkins is a quiet hero who makes everything technical work at these events.
Janet Reineck is no longer in the US, but it seems that Heather Jane Williams is able to keep World Dance for Humanity energized and organized! I am sure she has plenty of help!
Of course, many people gathered with a variety of signs, large and small.
Marian Shapiro is a life long activist for women’s rights and abortion rights since living in Kansas. She wore her sign.
After almost an hour of speakers, the crowd moved out onto State Street and marched up the street.
To keep up with Women’s March Santa Barbara, check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WomensmarchSB
– Robert Bernstein
@Coast, you’ll likely need to switch that order to blue democracy donuts. Myself and every other woman in Santa Barbara will gladly have one.
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-donald-trump-national-polls-election-forecast-1980450
…I guess I’ll be ordering a lot more ORANGE donuts from Eller’s…!
COAST – why is it funny to you that women are concerned about their reproductive rights? You going to joke about the 18 year old Texan girl who died the other day due to anti-choice laws that put her doctors in fear of treating her? That shit funny to you?
Sexists and misogynists are incapable of having empathy for anyone that doesn’t resemble them.
@ SBsurferlife, Sac, Alex and other militant Dems… Take heed of the young girls sign that reads, “Love not Hate, makes America Great”. Ease up on the rhetoric.
I’m not a Democrat you silly bunny.
Says one of the most hateful commenters on this site LOL
What a joke!
That sign had your name on it.
Gloating is so unseemly. Isn’t it enough you got what you wanted?
OTOH, I knew better than to make projections about who’d win.
This is what the majority of Americans are. Oh well.
It’s not, actually. There are about 240 million eligible voters, and about 30% of them voted for Trump. And many of those people are remarkably uninformed about him (largely due to malfeasance on the part of the mainstream media and active disinformation from Fox, Newsmax, RSBN, etc.) I said here repeatedly that Trump might win.
But all of us will suffer the grave consequences.
DALGORF – I’ve been seeing a concerning trend in the articles and comments I’ve been reading online – many of the far left refused to vote or voted 3rd party out of “protest.” I’m struggling to come to grips with the fact that anyone who considers themselves “left” in any way would knowingly and willingly hand the country to Trump just because Kamala wasn’t “left enough” or that Biden was “too soft” on Israel.
Could you imagine being so selfish that you would knowingly let a professed wannabe dictator take over just because you didn’t get your way about a couple of issues? I’ve always disliked the uber left, but this…. this would be just awful.
The Dems lost this race more than Trump won.
I am fairly certain voter turnout is going to only be slightly less than it was in 2020. A couple hundred thousand votes is not many compared to tens of millions. Any articles you have read are speculative at this point.
Kamala lost & Trump won. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
I don’t know how many ways there are to say it.
The country chose him and rejected her.
Loved the world dance video. Great pictures…..
Yes, “Heather Jane Williams is able to keep World Dance for Humanity energized and organized”
I love this woman!
Now that the election is over you can stop lying. Do like Matt Walsh, who admitted “Now that the election is over I think we can finally say that yeah actually Project 2025 is the agenda.”
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1854164649433858119
This is just a taste of what is coming:
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1854726770718585189