Year two of Women’s Marches in San Diego and North County were bigger and more organized. This year’s theme in San Diego and nationwide was Hear Our Vote, calling attention to the 2018 midterm elections.

The unspoken theme was intersectionality. After a year of bizarre, mean-spirited, ignorant, sexist, and racist rhetoric nobody needed to be told: Trump and his band of pirates are coming after everybody and everything we hold dear in the name of greed.

While the mood of the crowd at the rally was upbeat and friendly there was no denying the underlying seriousness of the march.

San Diego Police Department Crowd shot from above

The skies were blustery, and it sprinkled a few times. The speakers part of the program ran close to schedule, security looked confident, and there were no disruptions that I saw along the two-mile march route.

The SDPD estimated the crowd at the downtown rally at 37,000. Organizers felt like it was much bigger. Whatever the numbers were a statement was being made. The crowd at Palomar College was estimated at 4000.

I’m glad I went. Seeing all those sisters and brothers united in their determination was a real mood booster.

There are two galleries. The little arrow thingies on top of the picture work haphazardly; you’re better off just clicking on the pictures themselves to keep things moving. The photos are by Doug Porter & Lisa Joy.

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Doug Porter was active in the early days of the alternative press in San Diego, contributing to the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego Street Journal. He went on to have a 35-year career in the Hospitality business and decided to go back into raising hell when he retired. He won numerous awards for his columns from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park.

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