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#StillResisting Weekend – Women’s Solidarity March – WNY
January 21, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm EST
March in downtown Buffalo; Part of WNY #StillResisting Weekend – #wepersist; #PowertothePolls; #womensmarch2018 – on the one year anniversary of the record-breaking Women’s March!! Starting at Buffalo City Hall Steps, we’ll walk (& keep moving) to spots relating to current campaigns such as the Convention for the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); Voter Registration; Better Policing; the Poor People’s Campaign; Resist Militarism; and much more. See our wonderful Speakers, Route and topics, and our stellar Co-sponsors below.
And don’t forget to check out http://wnypeace.org/wp/
Come out in Solidarity with the Women’s March on the one year anniversary of the biggest worldwide protest in history!! #WePersist!! #PowertothePolls
Pre-March Pre-Luminaries:
2:00 Gnonyoh/Thanksgiving Address by Jill Yagwoneest Clause, Tuskarora
2:10 Women’s Resistance Revival Chorus, with Drea D’Nur and ensemble!
Route and – brief – stops (times approximate):
2:30 City Hall Steps. re Gender Justice/ERA/healthcare/
2:40 Erie Co Holding Center (Del btwn Eagle & Church) – re stop ECHC deaths, Bail Reform, HALT (re solitary), transparency and accountability, etc. via Church to Franklin, north to cross at Eagle, down Franklin to
2:50 Board of Electors, Rath Bldg (Franklin St) – #PowertothePolls re Voting/voter registration drive/Election reform/Women Running for Office …
3:00 Police Dept (Church & Franklin) – re Better Policing/True Security = Community policing, enhanced training, fixit tickets, LEAD; Civilian Police Review Board; stop marijuana arrests… west on Church to
3:10 Homeless Jesus (Church&Main@St Paul’s Epis Cathedral) – re #PoorPeoplesCampaign (vs racism/militarism/
3:20:via Lafayette Park (- Women’s Ways~Peace Ways) ..west on Court St to
3:30 Robert Jackson Federal courthouse (Del&NiagSq, nw cnr) – #RuleofLaw: Resist Militarism; Support Dreamers; etc.
Our stellar Speakers will highlight related campaigns at each spot – very briefly. Si, se puede! They are – and will speak at the spots and generally on the subjects listed above –
Andrea Ó Súilleabháin, Ass’t Director of Partnership for the Public Good.
We’ll have Truth and Love to keep us warm (plus we’ll keep moving!) See you there! We Shall Overcome!