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Women’s marchers show up despite cold temps, wind chill

Women’s marchers show up despite cold temps, wind chill

Women’s marchers show up despite cold temps, wind chill

Air Capital Women’s Marchers can’t be stopped — not even by temperatures below freezing paired with high winds. There’s no way they would miss this annual event. That’s according to two young women who attended their first women’s march Saturday.

Savannah Gann and Bryn Ramos said Saturday’s high winds and freezing temperatures were small problems compared to fighting for their rights and equality. “Activism doesn’t stop for the snow!” Gann says, “We almost didn’t this morning but we decided it was worth it and it feels worth it right now.”

Gail Haywood-Tucker bundled up from head to toe Saturday in order to march downtown. She gives many reasons why she came, “What doesn’t bring me out in this weather?  My life depends on coming out here in this weather. My rights depend on coming out in this weather. Other people’s human rights. Babies who are taken away from their mothers.”

Along with dozens of others, Haywood-Tucker marched Saturday from City Hall to The Wave at Second and St. Francis. The march was shorter than was originally planned, but a bigger crowd gathered for the indoor rally at The Wave.

Speakers at a rally there included march organizer Brandi Calvert and the woman who led the production of the Horizontes mural, Theresa Doan. Their message to the crowd was, “claim your voice,” and they encouraged community activism.

Doan told the crowd, “Community is more than volunteering.”

See video of the marchers arriving at The Wave on the KFDI News Facebook page.

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