Gallery: Women’s March LA 2019
By Amy Dixon, Axel Lopez, Liz Ketcham, Kristie-Valerie Hoang, Emily Ng, Kanishka Mehra, Rachel Hefner, Tanmay Shankar, Metztli Garcia
Jan. 19, 2019 6:40 p.m.
A man disrupts demonstrators during the march's opening ceremonies, swearing and urging those around him to resist white feminism before being escorted away from the crowd.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
A family, dressed in all blue, marched to represent the ''blue wave'' and to encourage voters to show up at the polls.
(Emily Ng/Daily Bruin)
Gloria Allred, a founding partner of the law firm of Allred, Maroko & Goldberg, leads the crowd during the first minutes of the march. Allred’s law firm handles more women’s rights cases than any other private law firm in the nation.
(Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Drag queen Glamda The Fabulous displays her handmade tulle dress that is covered in the names of women recently elected to Congress.
(Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)
One marcher holds up a sign featuring U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s face. Many marchers’ signs featured names and faces of women newly elected to Congress.
(Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)
A counter-protester is splashed with cold water after insulting people in the crowd.
(Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Demonstrators chanted, ''This is what democracy looks like,'' as they marched through Downtown Los Angeles.
(Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)
A demonstrator at the Women’s March 2019 stands atop a crowd of people present for the premarch rally in Pershing Square. The sign reads, ''You are eternal. You are neither here nor there, but everywhere. You carry the hood in your veins & academia in your heart. You are poderosa like that ... You are unstoppable,'' a quote from Huffington Post contributor Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez. Poderosa is the Spanish word for powerful.
(Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles took to the streets in solidarity with the Women's March.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Elle White waves a rainbow-colored ''Love Trumps Hate'' flag to the sounds of the musical group MILCK as it perform on stage.
(Rachel Hefner/Daily Bruin)
A student from Xinaxcalmecac Academia Semillas Del Pueblo, an Indigenous Mexican public charter school in LA Unified School District, carried burning sage as he marched.
(Metztli Garcia/Daily Bruin)
People of all backgrounds and ages were present at the Women’s March, wearing slogans in support of the movement.
(Tanmay Shankar/Daily Bruin)
Adults and children alike marched through the streets of LA bearing signs of female empowerment and gender equality.
(Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)
Some protesters wore yellow vests that represented economic justice.
(Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)
Wiley Parker, 10, takes a swing at a pinata shaped like President Donald Trump in a playground inside Grand Park. A couple other children also beat the pinata after Parker's turn.
(Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
Third-year gender studies student Jasmine Wilson dances with her son. ''(I'm here) with my son and four daughters because it's time to make a change,'' Wilson said.
(Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
LAUSD student Esmeralda Landa holds a sign above the marching crowd at her first Women's March.
(Rachel Hefner/Daily Bruin)
''Trust me, my guts are smarter than anybody's brain,'' a Donald Trump impersonator with a Pinocchio nose told the protesters.
(Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
A giant baby Trump blimp flew through the sky near City Hall, similar to the one that first appeared in London in the summer.
