Protesters Demonstrate at VP Mike Pence's NASA Speech in Mountain View, CA

[photos by Marie-Rose Ramboz, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.]

About 100 NASA Ames employees were selected to hear a speech by Vice-President Pence at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View, California last week, but not everyone was thrilled with his visit. Protesters staged a striking red, white and black demonstration outside the NASA research facility.

Groups Vigil for Democracy, Resistance SF, and Refuse Fascism Bay Area were joined by the Raging Grannies who substituted their usual colorful "Granny wear" for more somber costumes.

Grannies in black portrayed mourners in street theater staged in the middle of the intersection in front of the Moffett Field gates. Protesters in white provided the shock element in the dramatic performance ...they wore realistic looking fake blood splashed on their crotches. The die-in portrayed victims of back-alley abortions. They were joined by handmaidens in red capes and white bonnets.

While the major goal of the demonstration was to draw public attention to the Vice-President's misogynistic/homophobic agenda, a school shooting in Southern California the same morning prompted demonstrators to call out during the die-in that Pence has strong NRA ties.