What did the Women’s March achieve? 5 locals sound off

A wife marched on Madison.

Sadly, a blizzard cancelled the march set for St. John’s.

A brother waved a sign in New York City.

I am grateful to my wife and that small group of Nasty Women who encouraged me to attend the Women’s March on Asheville. The Women’s March on Washington occurred the day after President Trump’s inauguration (Photo taken on January 21, 2017). Many people claimed they were “confused” by the march, asking those who did protest what they were marching about. You can also volunteer for an organization that is important to you, such as Planned Parenthood.

Maybe you find it threatening to see millions of people mobilized in solidarity, maybe you believe women are less than and don’t deserve equality, maybe since you are comfortable in your life you don’t feel the need to march.

Many of us disagree on how to address those issues. The marches this past weekend have for sure opened that door, a door that should remain open, both for those who marched and those who did not. Regardless, I understood the sentiments, emotions, and objective behind the march.

“[I’m here] to support women, I think we should be placed higher in society than we are”, explained Patrice Bondodet.

“I knew I wanted to go to it”, said Tucker. Although he won the Electoral College votes necessary to win the presidency, Trump lost the popular vote by a wide margin to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. I don’t want children, or anyone with a pre-existing condition to not have access to insurance. Do you think that the Canberra march is a useful event or a waste of time? However, for me, it was not an anti-Trump march.

It was peaceful, positive and inspirational, especially talking to other marchers, one of whom, a young academic, said she had done her thesis on the stalled Occupy Wall Street movement, but her feeling now is “women will lead this movement for change”.

Nearly every woman I know who marched used the word “exhilarating” to describe how it felt to show up for one of the largest world wide one day demonstrations in history.

It would be helpful if someone in the Trump administration had the courage to be honest with Trump enough to instruct him that even after elections, people will disagree with him and protest, and that this is part of our democratic process. “We’re staying together, and we’re taking over”.

Women from all around the country gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women’s March on Washington to walk for equal rights.

Debbie Wright of Los Angeles said she watched the inauguration of Donald Trump and was disappointed. “I’m not going to shut up about it”. Rather, because it came from a friend with an ambiguous quip: “Last I checked you were a man … is there something you’re not telling me?” “We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us”.

Numerous walks began or ended with rallies featuring activists, political leaders and performers.

In a lot of ways, my experience at the March was similar to my experience in the ‘Hamilton bubble.’ Being a liberal, even a radical one, on this campus is not a particularly subversive act. “Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday”.

Black women since the progressive era have been excluded from any social and economic change that targeted women who were treated unfairly from job wages, health rights, and civil rights. After all, this was a Women’s March.

On Monday, organizers of Saturday’s marches announced 10 actions that included asking supporters to write to their legislative representatives.

There’s lots to say, as the march covered lots of issues. Allyship to minorities goes beyond attending a single march.

A 1969 anti-Vietnam War protest drew about 600,000 people to Washington, D.C. According to crowd scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain, the crowd was roughly three times the size of the audience at Donald Trump’s inauguration a day earlier.