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Protesters clad in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ outfits turn out to welcome Mike Pence to Colorado Springs
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Protesters cloaked in red robes and wearing white bonnets like characters in the novel and TV series “The Handmaid’s Tale” greeted Vice President Mike Pence on Friday when he spoke at Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs. The 1985 Margaret Atwood novel depicts a dystopian society under fundamentalist rule where women are treated…
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Protesters plan to greet Mike Pence in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ garb at Focus on the Family speech in Colorado Springs
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Some of the protesters planning to welcome Vice President Mike Pence to Colorado Springs on Friday will be wearing red robes and white bonnets from the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which depicts a fundamentalist society that treats women as property, organizers told Colorado Politics. “It’s our way of making kind of a shocking statement,”…