Former California State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson wasn’t ambiguous with her words.

“It’s time that we lift ourselves up from the despair, the disappointment and the shock many of us have experienced from this recent presidential election where a convicted felon, a proven hopelessly incompetent president, a painfully misogynistic human being, will now be taking the reins of power,” Jackson said. “We are here to resist. We are here to take action.”

Jackson was one of several speakers Saturday afternoon at De La Guerra Plaza for the annual Women’s March, where people all across the nation march and rally in support of women’s rights, and to push back against the Trump Administration.

More than 300 people packed De La Guerra Plaza, and then those who stayed marched down State Street toward the beach. Attendees waived signs, and one man wore a Trump mask and jail bird jumpsuit.

Among the speakers were Jackson, elected officials such as Second District Santa Barbara County Supervisor Laura Capps, state Assemblyman Gregg Hart, D-Santa Barbara, and Paula Lopez, vice president of the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee. Representatives from Casa de la Raza, raising concerns about Trump’s promise to deport undocumented workers, and Moms Demand Action, who called for greater gun protection laws, also attended.

Marianne Partridge, editor of the Santa Barbara Independent, and Lisa Osborne, KCSB News & Public Affairs director, also spoke, highlighting the importance of local journalism and how to identify reliable and trustworthy news sources.

Several organizations participated in the organizing of the event, including Women’s March Santa Barbara, Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County, and the Women’s Political Committee.

“I am in disbelief,” Lopez said. “I am sad. I am frightened. I am overwhelmed.”

Lopez said that president-elect Donald Trump is trying to strip away women’s rights, immigrant rights and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.

“The incoming administration has already attacked so many of these rights and has vowed to go even further, if you can believe it, over the next four years,” Lopez said.

Lopez told the crowd that “we are committed to resisting these attempts.”

Hart riled up the crowd with a powerful speech saying he will defend the state from Trump.

“The president-elect has directly said he is coming after California in an unprecedented way,” Hart said. “He’s threatened the disaster relief funding that we are entitled to as Americans and our neighbors in Los Angeles so desperately need. We are not going to let that happen.”

Hart said California is the fifth-largest economy in the world.

“We are leading the nation on environmental protection, we are leading the nation on the climate agenda, we are protecting reproductive freedom, we are expanding access to health care, we are moving forward on everything we care about, and the world is watching us in this moment,” Hart said.

Supervisor Capps said her priority was to turn the grief from Trump’s election into action.

“We are not defeated,” Capps said. “We are turning our disappointment, our anger, our despair into action, and I urge you, each of you, just do what you can for immigration organizations. Now is the most crucial time.”

Jackson served as master of ceremonies for the event and criticized the Trump Administration for blaming the Los Angeles fires on politicians and government.

“The problem was not that the mayor of LA was in Ghana,” Jackson said. “These firestorms are being caused because of climate change, and if we don’t address it these fires are going to get worse. It doesn’t matter how many firefighters you have, how much water you have, when you have 100-mile-an-hour winds.”

Click through the slideshow below to see more photos from the Women’s March.