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" WASHINGTON The day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as president, an estimated 200,000 people from across the country will flood the capital for a mass demonstration billed as the Women’s March on Washington.Some will be standing up for what are traditionally labeled women’s issues, such as equal pay and paid family leave. Many say they will be marching just to feel heard, and to express their fear that a range of liberal causes could be endangered under the Trump administration.
But many organizers say the march is not just an anti-Trump protest. It’s as much a rallying cry FOR all those people and issues on the other side as it against him, they say.
“We don’t consider this a protest. It’s a positive movement,” said Elizabeth O’Gorek, 38, who co-chairs the local logistics committee in Washington. “All of these causes – environmental concerns, immigration, Black Lives Matter – those are all women’s issues.”
Margie Storch, 61, said she was alarmed at the rhetoric Trump used on the campaign trail and some of the policies he proposed. But the longtime civil rights activist said she wasn’t making the seven-hour bus ride from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington to protest him.
“Donald Trump is our president,” she said. “I feel like we need to continue to communicate with him and our representatives in Congress and just let them know what we want. I want to show up and speak out for women’s rights, human rights, civil rights, health care rights – all the things that I believe in.” "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article126425489.html
But many organizers say the march is not just an anti-Trump protest. It’s as much a rallying cry FOR all those people and issues on the other side as it against him, they say.
“We don’t consider this a protest. It’s a positive movement,” said Elizabeth O’Gorek, 38, who co-chairs the local logistics committee in Washington. “All of these causes – environmental concerns, immigration, Black Lives Matter – those are all women’s issues.”
Margie Storch, 61, said she was alarmed at the rhetoric Trump used on the campaign trail and some of the policies he proposed. But the longtime civil rights activist said she wasn’t making the seven-hour bus ride from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Washington to protest him.
“Donald Trump is our president,” she said. “I feel like we need to continue to communicate with him and our representatives in Congress and just let them know what we want. I want to show up and speak out for women’s rights, human rights, civil rights, health care rights – all the things that I believe in.” "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article126425489.html
