SLU-dents help make History in Women’s March on Washington
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The “Resist” sign with the Capitol building in the back was such a powerful image while marching on the National Mall. I couldn’t help but look back while marching to take in the scene. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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The Hillary Rodham Clinton cutout was a fan favorite during the march. Many people cheered as she was hoisted above the protestors’ head and higher into the air. The crowd was headed toward the National Mall but there were so many people that it was moving pretty slowly, which allowed all of us to turn around and take in the powerful scene. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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The poster referencing Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic quote with the Washington Monument in the background instilled within me the magnitude of the moment, given that so many other movements and protests blossomed on the National Mall in preceding decades. The thousands of gatherers now have a place in history as participants of the largest mass demonstration in American history. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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During the rally, there were crowds of women and men, in every direction, as far as the eyes could see. It was so comforting being a part of a crowd filled with so many kind, compassionate, and peaceful individuals. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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52 St. Lawrence students boarded a coach bus headed for the Women’s March on Washington on Friday January 20th. They stayed in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Baltimore, Maryland thanks to a St. Lawrence connection. The group had such wonderful energy throughout the whole weekend. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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First year students Kiersten Larrabee ’20, Sydney White ’20, Kate Angus ’20 and Emily Keenan ’20 gathered to represent St. Lawrence in front of the Capital and show solidarity in their scarlet and brown. (Photo Beth Larabee/Guest Photographer)
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Members of The Hill News, including Managing Editor Sydney Fallone ’17, Editor-in-Chief Olivia White ’17, News Editor Emery Younger ’17, Lead Copyeditor Claire Mendes ’18, and Digital Editor Jonathan Ten Eyck, represented a variety of popularly protested issues. (Photo Olivia White ‘17/Editor in Chief)
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Keckeley Habel ’17, Sydney Fallone ’17, Emily Osiecki ’19, and Julie Rogers ’17 represented KDS at the march. (Photo Olivia White ‘17/Editor in Chief)
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Protestors criticized the fact that President Trump did not earn the popular vote, a stark objection to his inauguration which occurred just 24 hours earlier on the steps of the Capital in the background. (Photo Olivia White ‘17/Editor in Chief)
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SLU alumni Annie Dietderich ’16 and Emma Cummings-Krueger ’16 were spotted in the crowd. (Photo Sydney Fallone ‘17/Managing Editor)
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Protestors sought to reclaim the anatomy that President Trump has derogatorily referenced during his campaign. (Photo Claire Mendes ‘18/Lead Copyeditor)
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Sydney Fallone ’17, Julieanne DeGuardi ’17, and Meg Chandler ’17 look toward a nastier future. (Photo Olivia White ‘17/Editor-in-Chief)
Last week’s Women’s March on Washington brought hundreds of thousands of protesters to America’s capital and sparked multiple sister protests worldwide. A group of approximately 60 St. Lawrence students attended the D.C. protests on a bus trip organized by the Women’s Resource Center, a handful of other students found their own transportation to the protest, while others joined faculty and staff in the Canton march which gathered at the courthouse.
According to The Atlantic, data compiled by Jeremy Pressman, a political science professor at the University of Connecticut, and Erica Chenoweth, a professor at the University of Denver, indicate that the number of participants was somewhere between 3.6 and 4.6 million worldwide. Outside of D.C., there were gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Hartford, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles as well as international locations such as London, Sydney, Berlin, Paris, Nairobi, and Cape Town according to CNN.
Though cries for women’s health and reproductive rights were at the center of the march, protestors rallied for a breadth of pressing issues including humane immigration reform, electoral college reform, LGBT rights, fair and equal treatment of black lives, and funding for climate change reversal research and initiatives. Some were there to speak out against President Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S./Mexico border, while others demanded he abolish plans to continue with the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The event in Washington D.C. also featured a rally in which prominent entertainers, activists, and public figures from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards to singer and activist Alicia Keys addressed the mass gathering before it poured into the streets and flooded the city in a sea of pink hats and signs. The sheer number of women and men from all corners and cultures in America was staggering – a true testament to the passionate resistance Trump can expect during his next four years.