Posted on 09/21/2020 8:53:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode
He doesnt have a lot of respect for women. We might as well be handmaids.
That was the feeling among of a group of Orange County residents who, as they gathered to mourn the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also found themselves in shock and fearful of how Donald Trump might fill her seat.
In that spirit, 50-60 O.C. residents gathered at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and US Courthouse in Santa Ana on Saturday for a vigil, but also to protest. There were kids, teens and adults, about 10 of whom dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwoods novel that became the Hulu series The Handmaids Tale.
By next January, were all going to turn into Handsmaids, said one of the events organizers, Lulu Hammad, who is founder of co-founder of Yailla Indivisible.
Hammad said that on Friday people she spoke with were very sad and shocked that we lost RBG. But, the reason that were coming together, she said, is that all the women that I spoke to [on Friday], I heard terror in their voices.
So they gathered up costumes that had been made for a 2017 post-election event and took to the streets. Little did they know how prescient the move was.
The event consisted of activists and also kids as young as 5, 6, plus some teenagers. They heard a speech from Farrah Khan, the Irvine City Councils first Muslim member.
She set the mood, said Hammad, reminding us who RBG was and that we shouldnt despair; She left us with tools and we should continue the fight.
Other people, including Hammad, spoke as well. There were candles, flowers and readings of quotes from Justice Ginsburg.
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