Pat Lovell from the nearby city of Burlington is also heading down to Washington DC to take part.
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“I think this past election in the USA has been shocking in the kind of language that has surfaced about women, about oppressed communities, about people of colour, and it’s really time to stand up and take power back”, Luke said.
“We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us”, the march’s mission statement reads.
“In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore”, march spokeswoman Cassady Fendley said in a news release. She has even packed several copies. “I am in my future”. “It’s so easy to not go and to not do anything, but as long as I’m willing and able it seems like a good time to start owning that privilege and using it for the right things”.
Diana Angus, of Columbus, Ohio, attends the Ohio Sister March in Columbus last Sunday. “The only difference from other feminists is that we extend bodily autonomy to the womb”. “I expect there to be a lot of comraderies, a lot of passion”, says Debbie Eden. The more people the march can attract, of any gender, the louder the message will be that, as women, we deserve rights and we won’t give them up without a fight.
“I’m not necessarily marching against a person”, Plum said.
The march occurs a week before the January 27 March for Life, held annually near the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the U.S. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Focus on the Family will also be hosting Evangelicals for Life events, evangelicals.life, January 26-28. The bus leaves Saturday morning at 2 a.m. and is scheduled to return to Syracuse at 5 p.m., according to a university email. “When I think about myself as a woman and the experiences that I’ve had, and that one in four women will experience sexual assault, it frightens me”.
The Vienna event is one of more than 60 “sister” marches being held around the world in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington on the same day. As more than 100 protesters could crowd a busy intersection, the Fresno Police Department will monitor the protests. “As of Monday, almost 700,000 people have expressed interest in 370 satellite marches around the world”.
The estimated turnout for the Visalia march is unknown.
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Oakhurst: 10 a.m.to 1 p.m.at the Oakhurst Community Park, 49074 Civic Circle. It will begin and end at Demens Landing and will wind through downtown St. Pete.
