100 Days In, Women's March Still Inspires. But Can The Enthusiasm Hold?
Putting together a march on the National Mall is a demanding task, to put it mildly. And the organizers of the Women's March only had two months to put together an event that quickly grew from a Facebook post to a worldwide phenomenon.
"I think what's really interesting is we didn't necessarily have a lot of time to think about next steps," said activist Carmen Perez.
Perez helped organize the march that brought together more than 400,000 protesters in Washington, D.C. (and sparked more than 600 sister marches worldwide), the day after President Trump's inauguration. The intense planning involved not only logistics, like securing permits, but thinking about how to be inclusive in a march that refused to focus on any single issue.
"Our focus was to make sure that we were intentional, intersectional and making sure that people feel heard," she
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