Marching Together Since 2017
January 2017 was our first-ever Women’s March. Fueled by outrage over the rise of autocracy, misogyny and xenophobia in Washington DC, the march’s organizers vowed to keep fighting for vulnerable communities in Ventura County — and thus, Justice for All Ventura County was born.
A decade later, the 10th Annual Women’s March took place on January 17, 2026, with “Courage is Contagious” as our theme. We celebrated 10 years of unity as a community — and if you want to see how the marches have evolved over a decade, this is the place to relive those marches!
Looking back at 2025…
With women’s rights and reproductive freedoms under graver threat than ever, we as neighbors, friends and allies united and showed we wouldn’t back down — especially against politicians who sneer at the idea that women are people.
Ventura County Women’s March 2025
On January 18, 2025, we marched in solidarity with Women’s Marches across the country to push back against politicians who want us to stay silent and give up our voice. If you missed this year’s march, then checkout the photos we snapped.
The Community Leaders at the 2025 Women’s March
Our rally’s speakers included VC Supervisor Vianey Lopez, VC Council Member Ryyn Schumacher, immigration attorney Vanessa Frank, and Buen Vecino’s Dr. Andrea Medina. Former VC Supervisor Kathy Long was our MC.
We are facing difficult times and these community leaders helped us understand how to navigate the next few years. Remember this: You’re the #1 reason we’re fighting back.
Meanwhile, back in 2024…
Ventura County’s 2024 march was its most ambitious yet, featuring education workshops for community activists to train and advocate for reproductive, environmental and democratic rights in 2024, as well as action sessions for signing postcards, donating books and registering new voters.
Ventura County’s 8th Annual Women’s Rally & March
The community made Ventura County’s 2024 Women’s Rally & March a success! Two hundred marchers braved sprinkles, drizzle and — for a short time — even rain, because all of us felt a duty to stand against the forces that seek to roll back women’s rights by more than a half-century. Checkout what the community achieved at the 2024 Women’s March…
What was new at the 2024 Women’s March?
Standing in solidarity with democratic, environmental and women’s rights is how we stand strong together. Here are the activities we hosted at our rally, empowering the community to make a difference in 2024…
Banned Books: Extremists are cranking up their efforts to ban books about BIPOC and LGBTQ people from libraries. We’re doing the opposite: collecting donations of such books for local libraries!
Postcard Writing: Local special elections are happening across the country in February. Activate America is hosting a free postcard-writing session so you can help with turning out low-propensity voters who’ll make a difference in these special elections.
Voter Registration: The League of Women Voters is helping to register local voters like yourself in time for November… because with so much at stake, 2024 may be the most pivotal election of our lives!
2023 was #BiggerThanRoe…
In January 2023, we held our 7th Annual Women’s March for an especially important reason: Earlier in June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. It was the first time in history the Supreme Court revoked a previously protected constitutional right.
Marching for Democracy Itself
That’s why Ventura County’s communities rallied to show this battle is #BiggerThanRoe. We know extremists won’t stop at Roe — now they’re targeting voting rights, same-sex marriage, even democracy itself. We marched to show what’s at stake.
Defying Dobbs in 2022…
Bans Off our Bodies wasn’t just our first march cohosted with Planned Parenthood Central Coast in May 2022. It was our spontaneous, outraged response to that previous week’s Supreme Court leak, revealing its intent through Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health to violate 49 years of constitutional precedent — by overturning Roe v. Wade.
Marching for Our Bodies, Ourselves
Naturally, Ventura County didn’t take kindly to the revocation of an American constitutional right for the first time in history. Within days, communities organized and marched in defiance of Dobbs, proclaiming we would fight all attempts by an increasingly lawless Supreme Court to force women into becoming second-class citizens.
2021: Our First Post-Pandemic March
After the 2020 pandemic delayed our next Women’s March for months, we planned on holding our first post-pandemic march in January 2022. Then the Supreme Court announced in the summer of 2021 that it would allow Texas to put into effect its “abortion bounty” law — allowing Texans to sue anyone who supported access in Texas.
A March for Reproductive Rights
In response, our entire community rose up, organized and marched in October 2021 — months earlier than planned — in order to send a message: that the United States should be moving forward and not backward on reproductive rights, because reproductive rights are human rights.
Looking back, we recognize the post-pandemic years have been difficult for women’s rights and pro-democracy advocates everywhere. As advocates, we face a choice during difficult times: Give up or come together. Let’s come together and bring about justice for all communities in Ventura County.