The 2019 Women's March

Jan 21, 2019 · 1h 32m 6s
The 2019 Women's March
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One striking sight was new. More than a dozen red dresses, held up on wooden posts, were illuminated in the sunlight in front of the Alaska State Capitol. The dresses...

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One striking sight was new. More than a dozen red dresses, held up on wooden posts, were illuminated in the sunlight in front of the Alaska State Capitol. The dresses were meant to bring attention to missing and murdered indigenous women. There were specific signs carrying the images of Jade Williams, a 19-year-old who was killed in Kake in 2017, and Mackenzie Howard, a 13-year-old girl who was killed in Kake in 2013. Juneau Empire One striking sight was new. More than a dozen red dresses, held up on wooden posts, were illuminated in the sunlight in front of the Alaska State Capitol. The dresses were meant to bring attention to missing and murdered indigenous women. There were specific signs carrying the images of Jade Williams, a 19-year-old who was killed in Kake in 2017, and Mackenzie Howard, a 13-year-old girl who was killed in Kake in 2013. Juneau Empire

The Seattle Women's had about 10,000 in attendance, according to the event's organizers. Equality for women means all women," one sign read. More than a fair share of signs made reference to Trump's attitude and actions toward women, such as "pussy-grabbing" and his namecalling of political opponents like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.One woman's backpack was wrapped in pink cloth that read "Women say free Gaza." Another one championed Worker rights, missing and murdered indigenous women, health care, access to firearms and climate change highlighted the annual Women’s Rally for Democracy in Helena on Saturday.Medicaid expansion to firearms to trapping.“Whether you support equal pay, or equal rights, public lands or public schools, higher wages or higher education, freedom of the press or the freedom to love and marry who you chose, you want to end domestic violence or gun violence in our schools, or whether you want to end the shutdown or keep families together, no matter what brought you here today, we must rise together Montana,” emcee Andy Shirtliff told the crowd.
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