San Antonio Women March Hours of This Past Saturday Alex Birnel in San Antonio
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BY VOL. 55 ISSUE 2 UTSA students FOR ANUARY J 24 - UTSA students JANUARY 31, 2017 /PaisanoOnline /ThePaisano @PaisanoMedia @ThePaisano www.Paisano-Online.com Inauguration attendance Nasty women unite over art Women’s basketball recap Opinion Pg.3 Life Pg.6 Sports Pg.7 San Antonio Women March hours of this past Saturday Alex Birnel in San Antonio. For Staff Writer Victoria Guajardo, a @alexbirnel [email protected] communications senior Brianna Orta raises a fist in solidarity. Brianna Orta, The Paisano at UTSA, the reason to The chants were coming get out on the streets is from quixotic speakers all personal. Did you march? throughout the procession. “It is especially UTSA student shares her experiences from the Women’s March in D.C. At one moment, the classic important for women to call and response “What do march because when OUR Brianna Orta safety and for the future violence, a racist bigot, engagement. My name we want?” “Justice!” “When rights are threatened, when Contributing Writer generations to come. Over was sworn in as our is Brianna Orta and I am a do we want it?” “Now!” OUR accessibility to certain @thepaisano 2 million people across president. If this isn’t third generation Chicana [email protected] was initiated by a little girl institutions is threatened, the world enough of a reason to from Dallas, Texas. EVERYONE is threatened,” brandishing a gavel much This past weekend participated in a historic wake up and exercise I’m currently a senior she said. larger than her tiny hands. in cities all across the event that was recorded our First Amendment, at the University of Texas An age, gender, sexuality, She was dressed as world women and allies as the largest inaugural then I would like to at San Antonio studying racially, ability, legal- Supreme Court Justice took to the streets in protest ever. explain a little bit of the status diverse crowd of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. peaceful marches to On Friday, the new work I have been San Antonians amassed as At another moment, a stand in solidarity for the president of the United involved with, in order to others did across the nation veteran gutturally shouted protection of our rights, States, a man who has give context to the roots See UTSA, page 2 in places such as Chicago, the chant “equal work for our health, our been accused of sexual of my civic equal pay” to the cadence New York, Los Angeles, of a Marine incantation, Atlanta, Austin, Denver began in front of City Hall that the speed of things left is an impressive photo know “not all women have goading the crowd to and more in a broad and continued westward remained in step with the op…a symbolic gesture as vaginas and not all men repeat after him. reproach of President for 1.92 miles, stretching slowest marchers. opposed to direct action,” have penises.” For her, the A small act of serendipity Donald Trump but also a through to the barrios The march was entirely said local trans musician reduction of both people took place as the mass of myriad of problems to on the Westside of I-10. peaceful, with only one and writer Polly Anna and resistance to body of protesters passed the register anger against the Police on motorcycles minor, barely qualified Rocha. parts is corny. downtown Sheriff’s Office. political status quo. stationed themselves on episode of harassment. Another criticism of Mae Darrin, a business Summoned by the chant Billed as the “D.C. the perimeter of the crowd. Compared to the couple some of the sentiments management senior, who “prisoner’s rights are Women’s March,” Between the crowd and thousand who were on display at the Women’s couldn’t attend a march human rights,” an inmate in organizers coordinated the officers were ad-hoc marching, one disgruntled marches stems from their because she was sick saw an orange uniform ran to copy-cat marches. volunteer “peacekeepers” Cowboys jersey-wearing the day as galvanizing and the window of his jail cell a Erica Chenoweth, a distinguished by their red resident who walked to she plans to get involved few floors above the street scholar in the emerging shirts. Acting as a barrier his street corner to yell at “When OUR locally. to wave ecstatically down field of “nonviolent between those in the protesters was basically rights are “Now is the time to to those below. studies” at the University march, police and potential imperceptible. speak up and fight like These were some of the of Colorado collected data agitators, the peacekeepers “Saturday was really threatened, hell for what we believe scenes from the “Mujeres on participation in the day were additionally refreshing and beautiful. when OUR in. One of my resolutions Marchan,” Spanish for of action and concluded responsible for setting the It was just so empowering accessibility this year is to attend “Women March,” event that over 3.3 million people walking pace of the crowd and being out there con mi more neighborhood that took place in the took part in the event. and sending messages up gente made me feel like I to certain meetings. It’s a great and morning and afternoon The San Antonio march and down the column so wasn’t alone,” said Guajardo institutions easy way to speak to your Although the march is threatened representative in person functioned in many ways about the issues you are as an example of what EVERYONE is passionate about,” she said. social movement scholar threatened.“ President Trump’s Charles Tilly abbreviated as response to the marches “WUNC;” an opportunity -Victoria Guajardo, came in form of tweets for protesters to show their communications such as “celebrities hurt worthiness, unity, numbers the cause badly” and “why senior and commitment, some didn’t these people vote?” have pointed out that even According to the “resistance” can suffer from cis-centered rhetoric. Brennan Center for Justice, exclusionary ideas that When posters read things between 2011 and 2015, damage our unity. like “this p***** grabs back,” 395 new voter restrictions “Organizers will reach the attempted attacks on were enacted. out to police in advance Trump’s reputation of Trump might be working to plan out routes and sexual assault turn trans- with “alternative facts,” or ways to keep the peace, exclusionary. the former apprentice star which to me, seems to Rocha didn’t march doesn’t realize the irony in render the entire march because she felt the his words. ineffective because it event suffered from lazy didn’t disrupt much of trans-exclusionary, white- anything. Police redirect centered feminism and Caroline Traylor, The Paisano traffic and protesters stay ineffective symbolic tactics. The protest was peaceful with many children, babies and dogs in attendance. A young girl standing next to her mother held a sign that stated “Keep your tiny hands off my rights”. on sidewalks, so what’s As she reminds us to NEWS January 24 - January 31, 2017 2 SA mayoral candidates work to UTSA student marches to UTSA earn the student vote protest Donald Trump Manuel Medina, left, photo courtesy of his office. Councilman Ron Nirenberg, center, photo courtesy of his office. On Jan. 26 at 7 p.m., Mayor Ivy Taylor, right, courtesey of her office. continued from page 1 the UTSA Downtown This is a news feature from the perspective of a Campus will host a town hall meeting UTSA student who attended the Women’s March about Senate Bill 4 and on Washington. related immigration policies in the Buena Vista Street Building Mexican American As a Chicana, who is also Theater (BCB 1.326). studies with a minor in a student of life and in the Called “Sanctuary Cit- communication and a realm of higher education, ies: State Rules Versus concentration in nonprofit I find myself continuously Local Control,” the event covers the Bill’s management. struggling to balance the stance to end sanctuary I have been an traditions of my ancestors cities throughout Texas advocate in the fight for with academia. by having local and environmental and cultural In native practices, government agencies justice in solidarity with the we believe women to be impose current immi- Jeremiah Hobbs San Antonio elected Mayor Ivy Taylor is International Indigenous carriers of life. gration laws. Staff Writers @ThePaisano District 8 Councilman campaigning for re-election Youth Council of Standing As women, we share a [email protected] Nirenberg to his seat in for a second full-term. Her Rock, that has been special connection with 2013 and re-elected him public political affiliation Texas Bexar County resistant to oil companies mother earth and when she in 2015. During his time is Independent, but she is Democratic Party that are pushing Native hurts, we all hurt. The Texas Supreme in office, he has banned registered as a Democrat. people off their land, yet All humans come from Court has agreed to Chairman Manuel Medina retroactive immunity and In 1999, she started again. women, so when we reconsider a Houston has never held an elected began projects to solve San working for San Antonio case that sustained government office but As a woman of color disrespect women, we in Antonio transportation in the Housing and the city’s employee has experience as a I acknowledge the turn disrespect ourselves. related issues concerning Community Development benefits policy regard- political consultant. He intersectionality of my As people, we are ing same-sex mar- Wurzbach, UTSA Blvd, Department. One of her has pledged to regulate struggles and connect composed primarily of riages.