By Elke Heitmeyer, Frazier Park

Kern County residents who are interested in changing local politics decided to put on a Women’s March in Bakersfield this year, rather than join the hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles.

They wanted to celebrate the first anniversary of last year’s Women’s March, the largest demonstration in U.S. history. Women’s Marches were held across the United States and in other…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Mountain residents drove through the snow to march on Saturday, Jan. 20

Michi Knight set out from Piñon Pines

Over 600,000 marched in Los Angeles

35,000 marched in Sacramento

Bakersfield

3,000 marched in Bakersfield

“Voting is my Superpower”

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