Women from every generation, old and young, and their male feminist counterparts gathered on the corner of Park Street Saturday morning. Outside Republican State Representative Larry Ahern's St. Petersburg office, about 30-40 activists held signs and chanted. Awake Pinellas organized the march as part of a national day against war on women.
"Larry Ahern is not a friend of women's rights," Dunedin attorney BJ Star said.
Star is the president of the West Pinellas National Organization for Women or NOW. She joined NOW in 1975 when she was a police officer.
"I was facing differential treatment from superior officers and the union wasn't sympathetic back then," Star said."So I went to law school so I would never have to have someone else explain the law to me. I will explain it to them now."
This article appears in May 3-9, 2012.