CHICAGO – "This is the beginning of the end," shouted marchers at the Chicago Women's March Saturday. The theme repeated over and over by marchers and speakers was the needed ousting of not only President Donald Trump, but Vice-President Mike Pence in 2020.
Signs featured on local television news called for reproductive rights, human rights, LGBT rights and union rights. They also called for Medicare for All and full 2020 Census participation.
Controversial State's Attorney Kim Foxx at Women's March
Among those making appearances at the march included Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and US Senator Dick Durbin.
The marchers also carried a sign honoring a terrorist that hijacked TWA Flight 840 in 1986.
From the website Antiterrorism,
In the Women’s March, the Party of Socialism and Liberation Chicago idolised the terrorist Leila Khaled. She was part of a team that hijacked TWA Flight 840 on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, becoming the first female terrorist to hijack a plane.Khaled was captured but later released as part of a prisoner exchange.She is a member of the PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and involved in the Black September campaign in Jordan.
And Chicago's own John Ruberry of the "Marathon Pundit" website shows pictures of Women's March signs he took that "you won't see on mainstream TV," such as:
