As storm clouds gathered on Saturday afternoon, the protesters did too. Over 100,000 of them, actually, all of whom congregated beneath the pink lights of City Hall to join in the San Francisco Women’s March. This march was one of 673 in a series of worldwide demonstrations for women’s rights, which overall comprised an estimated 4.8 million marchers in a staggering show of solidarity.
Protesters whose ages ranged from newborn to 99 streamed into Civic Center Plaza, carrying clever signs and sporting pink “pussy” hats. Despite the rain that began to fall heavily at the start of the march, tens of thousands marched from City Hall to the Embarcadero well into the evening, carried by their rallying cries and rain boots.
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