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Top Comments: Hands Off in San Diego (Photos) [1]
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Date: 2025-04-06
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I went to the Hands Off march in San Diego yesterday. I was hoping hubby would come with, but he had other obligations for the day. While most of the other members of my local Democratic club decided to take the train down the coast to the city, I chose to drive. Accounts of those who took the train trip was that the train was packed with protesters. I got there before they did, but I was unable to find any of them because there were SO MANY PEOPLE THERE! The San Diego Union-Tribune wrote “Nearly 12,000” in its headline. These are my video and photos from before the march started.
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I had brought a sign I had prepared at home. I try to stick to policy rather than insults, not that I don’t enjoy the insults. I want my message to concentrate on the actual damage that Trump, Musk and the GOP are actually doing. So this is the message I brought with me:
I only had this message on one side, but while waiting for the march to start, I decided to create a message for the other side. Fortunately, the organizers had stations where people could create their own signs, so I borrowed their markers to write this:
I didn’t realize I had misspelled “benefits” until I got home. What can I say? I was in a hurry. A woman There asked me why the right to choose wasn’t on the list. I replied that the term “Equal Rights” was doing a lot of heavy lifting: The right to choose and women’s rights in general, but also civil rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, the rights of the disabled, and on and on. As many other signs professed, there isn’t enough space on a single piece of cardboard to list the outrages of the past three months. I didn’t even explicitly mention Ukraine, the tariffs, Russia, cuts to scientific research, academic freedom, Greenland, making our long-term allies into enemies, or a dozen other issues I care about.
I only got a couple of photos from the march itself. I invite anyone else who was there to post their photos in the comments. By the way, we passed a lot of people who held signs but were not marching, instead standing or sitting on the sidewalks. I have to wonder if those people were included in the estimate of the number of protesters. Reactions of others was solidly positive. If there were any MAGAs in the vicinity of the protest, they remained discreet.
As I am still new in San Diego, I couldn’t quite tell you what route we took, though it snaked through the downtown. I believe we passed through the so-called Gaslamp District. At what seemed to me an arbitrary point, the police told us we had reached the end of the march route, but that didn’t mean that protesters stopped marching. There was something of a dispersal, as I saw happen at the Women’s March in Washington, D. C. in 2017, where protesters went in all directions. I followed what seemed like the largest group, who marched through Little Italy, and then turned toward the bay. We marched along Pacific Highway, passing the San Diego County Administration Building. When we got to the street on which my car was parked, I decided I had had enough, and started walking east until I found my car and then drove home.
This protest was not the end, but just the beginning. Another action has been announced for April 19. We have to keep the pressure up to demonstrate our anger and discontent about what is happening to our nation. As more people become victims of this administration, I would expect that these protests will grow. We cannot be ignored!
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