Protestors across the country took part in mass demonstrations in solidarity with Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez on Monday, using the hashtag #BelieveSurvivors to demand that Senators take allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh seriously. A national walkout was scheduled for 1:00 p.m. EST, when thousands of supporters across the country left their offices and homes wearing black.

The walkout had already been scheduled before Sunday night, when Ramirez’s account of Kavanaugh’s misconduct during their time as undergrads at Yale University was published by The New Yorker. Organizations like Time’s Up and Planned Parenthood have urged members and supporters to leave wherever they were in a moment of solidarity with Ford, who earlier this month was revealed as the first woman to publicly accuse Kavanaugh of sexual impropriety and has since been maligned by Republicans as getting “mixed up” and forced into hiding. In a letter sent to her California congressional representative and Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat Dianne Feinstein in July, Ford described how a then-17-year-old Kavanaugh pinned her down on a bed and clamped a hand over her mouth when she tried to scream at a party in suburban Maryland in the early ’80s when Ford was 15. Ramirez says that Kavanaugh exposed his penis to her at a party at Yale. Kavanaugh has denied both Ford and Ramirez’s stories.

Protestors gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., including Jane Fonda and Tarana Burke:

Inside the Capitol and Senate offices, demonstrators gathered in sit-ins to demands their representatives, including Maine Senator Susan Collins, revoke any support for Kavanaugh’s nomination. Some were arrested in the process:

Elsewhere, celebrities and public figures showed their support:

At Yale University and in Congress, Yale student activists also sat in, including in the dorm where Deborah Ramirez says she was assaulted, in protest of Kavanaugh’s nomination:

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