The Bay Area wasn’t going to let San Francisco, our jewel of a city, become another Charlottesville and so counter-protesters organized events to drive out the hate with the only weapon ever known to be successful: LOVE. And Music. My husband, a few friends, and I traveled on BART up to City Hall for a…
Category: protest
Resistance is a Sign of Hope
The president signed a tragic executive order yesterday, barring all people from certain Muslim countries from entering the United States. It’s already having devastating effects for people arriving at our nation’s airports. Read about those who are being detained here. We, as a country and as a people, are better than this latest round of executive…
The Women’s March on Washington: The day we ALL showed up
I almost didn’t go. As I get older I find that I hate large crowds and this march promised to be big. My two teenage daughters had seen protests on tv and were afraid that something terrible might happen — and indeed, on the day of the Inauguration, terrible things did happen. But just as…
Barbara Ganias Comstock 