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International Women’s Day happens on March 8th every year. People have marched for women’s rights and social justice for decades and decades now, but the annual marches at state capitals across the country have grown in popularity since Donald Trump’s first administration.
This past Saturday, roughly 1, 000 people marched through downtown Denver to commemorate International Women’s Day. The march echoed similar themes from the 2017 Women’s March, which took place the day after Donald Trump’s first inauguration into office. Though the Denver-based organizers of the Women’s March disbanded last year, this year’s protest, organized by nine other local groups, gathered under similar calls to action for women’s rights.
Some local outlets reported that this year’s protest felt more intersectional than years past. In addition to calls for gender equality and reproductive rights, protesters also held signs and chanted for immigration reform, disability justice, the environment, LGBTQ rights, workers’ rights, the U. S. Department of Education, Ukraine, Gaza, and more.
Participants also called out Elon Musk’s government purge and Trump’s blatant misogyny, homophobia, and racism.
To talk about the importance and power of interconnectedness and intersectionality when mobilizing and the history of movements that stress these values, KGNU’s Jackie Sedley was joined in the studio by Celeste Montoya, an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at CU Boulder.
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