Women Marching for Rights

January 18, 2020 for the 4th year in a row many gathered to march for rights and to have their voices be heard. The Women’s March first started January 21, 2017 after current president Donald Trump’s presidency started, women were mad about Trump’s offensive comments he said about women back in 2005.

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Photo credit: Vlad Tchompalov

Kelly Fisher, Staff Writer

January 18, 2020 for the 4th year in a row many gathered to march for rights and to have their voices be heard. The Women’s March first started January 21, 2017 after current president Donald Trump’s presidency started, women were mad about Trump’s offensive comments he said about women back in 2005. Many people joined the march and stood up for each other. During this time, the marched has continued for 4 years now. Many signs are brought to the march including important topics like ending violence towards women, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, worker rights, civil rights, disability rights, immigrant rights, and environmental rights. The march does not only include women but men as well. Anyone is allowed to march and fight for women’s rights, and the march is filled with thousands of people as well as signs and chants. More than 650 protests were held that day worldwide and 5.2 million marched that Saturday. This years march was not as big as previous marches. Vox’s article “The Women’s Marches are shrinking. Their influence isn’t” by Anna North interviews Laurie Pohutsky on why she went to the Women’s March back in 2017 when it first started. “I had just watched a person who had admitted to sexually assaulting women on tape be elected president of the United States.” Pohutsky went on to say “I was outraged, I was angry, I was sad, and I knew that this was an opportunity to make a stand,” she went to the march to have her voice be heard as well as the other million of people. The Women’s March movement will continue to happen throughout the years and will continue to have the same powers.