Trump’s promised to appoint Supreme Court justices who could roll-back abortion rights for women or possibly undo marriage equality.
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Organizers warn that cell phone coverage may not be available during the march, since the number of attendees may overwhelm satellite access. AWARE is the county’s nonprofit center against sexual abuse and domestic violence. Bland continued, saying the march is meant to support a wide variety of people, but particularly those criticized during the 2016 election cycle.
Organizers say they’re anxious women’s rights will be rolled back under a Trump administration and Republican-controlled congress. This week march organizers indicated that women like me are not welcome in their ranks.
Taking part in the Women’s March this weekend would not just be powerful in regards to the optics of droves of men coming out and supporting half the population of the world in efforts that are connected to their lives, but in what men will learn while there.
“I think there’s something really attractive happening, and I think that it’s going to be huge on Saturday and it’s going to be huge from here on out”, she said. “So, we don’t lose hope again like this”.
Re: “Coloradans get ready for marches, Trump protests in D.C. and Denver, ” Jan. 17 news story. She is not a real woman, or if she is, she is the wrong kind. You have a Republican majority in the Congress that is hellbent on taking away these services, and you have a president who said he would agree with that.
Numerous haters employing #RenameMillionWomenMarch are also tweeting new names that label women as-wait for it-whiny or unintelligent, while others are using it to lash out at feminists as a whole. First, the march added Planned Parenthood and NARAL as cosponsors. “What is the problem?”
But there will be no true progress on women’s rights until pro-choice and pro-life groups recognize the shared womanhood that undergirds the principles they espouse. He poses a real threat to women’s rights. Women also make more effective policymakers.
“Most important is that we continue to move forward – not backward – in the area of equal rights for all citizens”, she said. And so, women also tend to see more clearly the vulnerability inherent in the human condition, the human goods brought about in giving care, and how our politics affect those at the margins.
The night Donald Trump was elected President, a grandmother from Hawaii posted a late night missive on Facebook.
A day after Donald Trump is inaugurated, thousands of women will descend on Washington for a march – a time-honored tribute to our constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly.
This past election cycle was rough on all of us, but for many women even more so.
The Massachusetts marchers have raised $30,000, Vincent said. “How the decisions made by the Cabinet affect public education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Cabinet members that understand diplomacy that will prevent a nuclear war”. While she said she respects the office, she will work hard to ensure all people are protected. The Palestinian-American-Muslim is a mother of three and executive director of the Arab American Association of NY. People suggested new names for the protest. To feminists of this cloth, the pro-life mentality is not an opposing view.
Kristi Honey was spurred to action by Trump’s comments about women.
“I’ve traveled alone before, but never to something like this”, Plum said.
Most of all, I am scared that there will be anarchy.
“They said they feared the direction we were headed”. It is solidarity. It is saying to the new administration that misogyny can not rule. Whatever the impetus, whatever the country, we are doing something that could not have been done in decades past.
Hundreds of “sister” marches will happen in all 50 states and around the world. “People often remark on the futility of marching but I was raised by a family who marched steadfast and often”, Mallory wrote in a 2015 Huffington Post commentary.
The Washington, D.C., rally, which will begin at 10 a.m., has a celebrity list that includes feminist and political activist Gloria Steinem, singer Katy Perry, comedian Amy Schumer, and actresses America Ferrera, Julianne Moore, and Scarlett Johansson.
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Where: In front of the Columbia Theatre on West State Street. This march is the beginning, not the end, of a movement.
