SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — About 6,000 women and others wearing pink hats, carrying signs and chanting “Women of Utah unite,” have poured into the Utah State Capitol as lawmakers started their 2017 session.
The demonstrators in Salt Lake City hiked a steep hill in heavy snow and wind Monday afternoon before pouring into the capitol, packing its three main floors, hallways and staircases amid speeches and chants from activists and a few Democratic lawmakers.
Organizers of the rally hoped to push back against “anti-woman legislation.”
The Utah rally came on the heels of similar massive protests around the country and the world, organized by women dismayed at President Donald Trump’s election.
Utah protesters say they wanted to hold their rally Monday so members of the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature could hear and see them.