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Women March Again - January 20th!
By maudeaster on 2018-01-11 13:11:13
On January 20'6, women across the US will mark the first anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, the largest coordinated
protest in US history. This year marches, actions and rallies are planned in over 673 communities world wide!
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Women in the Capital District will gather in West Capitol Park on Saturday the 20%, for a rally and march from
1-3 PM. Read about all the march plans, including rally speakers. You can listen to a great interview with two of the
organizers, Castina Charles and Emily Marynczak, on WOOC or reach them at womensmarch2.0@gmail.com .
Everyone welcome - sign up today to march!
I marched in New York City a year ago and loved the creative signs and the presence of so many younger women.
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because for me it celebrates a year of wonderful local resistance across the country -- to the women-hurting, people-hurting
agenda of President Trump and Republican enablers in the Congress. Here in the Capital District we crowded our airport to
protest immigration restrictions. We demonstrated at Congressional offices and at town meetings in the area to protect our
health care access. We called for criminal justice reform, gun control, environmental justice and honesty about climate
change. It is good to savor all we have done as encouragement to keep acting because we all know huge challenges remain.
Women Against War is happy to be among the co-sponsors of this year’s march. We’ve been so excited by this year’s
flowering of women’s organizing efforts — all the area Huddles, Indivisible groups, Capital Women and the great coalition
that has put together the plan for January 20". We’ve loved participating in events others have organized and have been
happy to campaign ourselves to replace war threats with diplomacy, to welcome refugees from the wars and climate
destruction the US is waging and to fund health care, education & employment instead of nuclear bombs & military drones.
: The call to action from
our local organizers shares the broad commitments of the movement which grew out of last year’s march: “We will renew
our insistence on the right of all Americans — no matter their race, religion, sexual orientation, or creed — to live without
fear and discrimination. We will demand that the administration implement policies that lift everyone rather than just the
wealthy. We will voice our unbending resistance to this administration as we recapture the spirit of the historic Women’s
Marches that took place across the nation and the world one year ago. This rally will be in support of all members of our
community, and it will be a public discussion and affirmation of the values we consider fundamental to our society: fairness,
inclusiveness, community, justice, and respect — for each other and for the law. We hope everyone who believes in these
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values will join us.” oa = 4 National organizers of this year’s marches announced
the theme as "Power to the Polls" and have framed the event as just the beginning of a "national voter registration tour".
Senator Barbara Boxer captured the commitment of many describing this year’s protests as “just the first step in the march
to the ballot box in November, when we'll be united around candidates who will stand up to the ugliness of Trump and his
dangerous policies.” Capital District women’s groups are already very active in important area congressional and local races,
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in addition to advocacy on the wide range of societal change issues we care about deeply. The January 20" march promises
to kick off another exciting year of women’s activism!
