People gather at the main quad at CSUMB.
Louis Berry, center, of Seaside, chants while walking down Gen. Jim Moore Boulevard during a women's march at CSU Monterey Bay, where thousands of people showed up to support equality.
Gwenyth Tackett, 4, of Marina, holds a sign during a women's march at CSUMB.
Dr. Vivian Waldrup-Patterson, center, a CSUMB faculty member, marches on Saturday.
Seaside City Councilwoman Kayla Jones walks down Divarty Street during the Jan. 21 women's march at CSUMB.
A young girl dances in the crowd at CSUMB.
Asia Gopi, of Carmel, marches down Divarty Street.
Thousands of people march through CSUMB.
Sophomores from Pacific Grove High School pose for a picture at CSUMB.
Supporters gather in downtown Santa Cruz on Saturday.
Marchers walk towards Pacific Street.
The crowd in Santa Cruz was estimated to be more than 10,000 people.
People march through downtown Santa Cruz.
Young women carry a sign down Pacific Street.
People walk down Pacific Avenue.
People cheer from the Planned Parenthood offices on Pacific Avenue.
A woman holds her daughter during the march.
People hold protest signs as they march downtown.
Thousands gather at the end of the march.
At the San Francisco Civic Center, people stand in the windowsill of a federal building, where they had a better vantage point to view the rally.
As rain started at the beginning of the San Francisco march, umbrellas came out by the hundreds.
A pink heart was left behind on the wet sidewalk. It rained hard throughout the San Francisco march, and many paper signs turned into mush.
Marchers walk down Market Street to the Ferry Building at dusk.
An estimated 100,000 people participated in the women's march in San Francisco, despite the cold, wet weather.
Protesters gather outside of Seaside's Peace and Justice Center on Jan. 19 during a Black Lives Matter rally.
People hold signs on the corner of Broadway Avenue and Fremont Boulevard in Seaside during a Black Lives Matter rally on Jan. 19.
Thousands gather for a women's march in Portland, OR.
Congressman Jimmy Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, marches in Washington D.C.
Jimmy Panetta poses with women from Santa Cruz.
Two women hold protest signs in Washington D.C.
On Jan. 21, a day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, millions of women—and thousands of men—marched throughout the country for equality and supporting pro-choice rights.
It was an inspired show of solidarity, and has been estimated to be the largest day of demonstration in U.S. history.
Locally, thousands marched through CSU Monterey Bay, while over 10,000 showed their support in downtown Santa Cruz.
Further north, in San Francisco, the march drew upwards of 100,000.
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The ones against Trump have to speak the same language of the mufflers and of those who think differently. Anger does not work, it brings illness to those who feel it.
The cons have to speak the same language as the silent and those who think differently. Anger does not work, it brings illness to those who feel it.
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