Before Trump’s inauguration, opponents show up to San Francisco’s Women’s March

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Opponents were assembling for a nationwide Women’s March the weekend before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Those in San Francisco who are worried about the potential consequences of another Trump presidency were demonstrating that the opposition is already in motion.

The Women’s March organizers in San Francisco made the decision to combine their march with a Mission District group that was also opposing the mass deportations that might start as early as Tuesday. David Chiu, the city attorney, cautioned the audience about potential problems he believes the city may face in the days ahead.

“San Francisco is a proud sanctuary city,” Chiu stated. “As a former civil rights lawyer, I’m devastated by the impending civil rights violations. As your city attorney, I am devastated that we will be installing a president who will violate the US Constitution and disregard the rule of law on Monday.

Roberto Hernandez, the march’s organizer, stated as the march started its journey from the Mission District to Dolores Park that he didn’t believe President-elect Trump had given the idea of deporting all undocumented immigrants much attention.

“Because if you really study and look at the immigrant population in this country today, the economy would collapse,” Hernandez stated. Deporting people who have been employed for 30 to 40 years as nannies, dishwashers, janitors, and other vital workers in this nation is cruel. Over the next four years, let’s defend them.

Those who feel that women’s rights, particularly reproductive rights, are in danger also expressed a great deal of outrage.

“What we are fighting for, or fighting against,” Brentwood resident Sherry Alcock stated, “are things that have occurred—things they have stated they desire to occur.” We are here to make it clear that we will not be leaving quietly. We will not revert to our previous course.

Jim Martinez, a resident of San Francisco, also stated that he believed the pushback against women’s advancement in society was the reason behind Trump’s triumph over Kamala Harris.

“Women are becoming more strong, and males are not as powerful as they once were. And that is the menace to the men. They’re acting like little boys inside of them, and they’re hiding it. “Oh,” you say, “they’re taking our manhood,” and so forth.

Under the Trump administration, there was also worry about millionaires influencing social policies. For the first time, Petaluma resident Tina Caputo expressed her concern that the nation may be headed into oligarchy.

“It seems like people like Elon Musk, who are tech billionaires, and all these people that Trump is surrounding himself with seem like they do not have a connection to everyday people and they don’t really care what happens to everyday people,” she stated.

According to the demonstrators, democracy itself is among the many important concerns at play. Fears of the emergence of transgender rights, however, were the only concern for a handful of Trump supporters at the march. Before becoming concerned about the notion that people might select their gender identification, Beth Bourne claimed to have been a Democrat.

Bourne remarked, “I’m just here because we need to wake up,” “Politics shouldn’t be involved in this. This ideology is hurting both boys and girls. Therefore, sports for girls and women will once again be exclusively for women, as Trump pledged on his first day in office to resume his involvement in sports.

It’s perhaps not unexpected that a lot of people are afraid of what President Trump might do, given that the election was nearly entirely about inciting fear. And they are already preparing for combat before he even assumes office.

When John Ramos started creating editorial cartoons and witty satire articles for the Bakersfield High School newspaper, he unintentionally started a career in journalism that would last a lifetime.