Women’s March on Washington 2017: Find Minnesota Sister Marches

The Women’s March on Washington and hundreds of sister marches across the country on Saturday, Jan, 21, the day after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, could bring an aggregate total of 1 million women and activists together around women’s and human rights issues they fear will be set back by the Trump administration. Five women’s marches are planned in Minnesota, including one for the Twin Cities that is expected to be among the largest sister marches in the country.

When the national march was announced in November, organizers said in an official statement that the “rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us — women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault.”

The march is intended to “send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights,” according to the press release. “We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.”

Grassroots-led marches are scheduled in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, as well as and in 55 global cities on six continents, from Tokyo to Sydney, Nairobi to Paris to Bogotá, according to a press release. As many as 1 million demonstrators may march in Washington, D.C., and at sister marches around the country, according to national sister march spokeswoman Yordanos Eyoel, of Boston.

“This is an unprecedented, organic and viral grassroots global movement that is growing every day,” Eyoel said. “What makes this movement even more special is that people who have never been politically active before are now mobilizing.”

Minnesota Sister Marches, Related Events

• Bemidji — Bemidji Women's March - Bemidji, MN
• Longville — Women's March - Longville, MN
• Morris — Women's March in Morris
• St. Paul — Women's March - Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

Resources

• Find transportation to the Women’s March on Washington
• Learn more about the Sister Marches

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