Feminist Majority Leaders Will Address Women's Marches in DC and Los Angeles

Erin Gistaro (DC) | erin@feministmajority.org | 703-740-7799
Candice Mercer (LA) | candice@feministmajority.org | 310-556-2515

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Feminist Majority Leaders Will Address Women’s Marches in DC and Los Angeles

On January 20, 2018, Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority President, and Katherine Spillar, executive director, will be among the inspirational leaders speaking at Women’s Marches in Washington DC and Los Angeles, respectively.

Smeal said: “The Women’s Marches one year ago led to the largest number of new candidates, especially women, running for political office, as well as the unprecedented victories for feminists in the 2017 state and local elections. Today, a record number of women are running for Congress, state legislatures, and state-wide offices, and we intend to win. We are going to send a pink wave through Congress and the states in 2018.”

Spillar added: “We knew going into 2017 that we would face challenges—but from the January Women's Marches to the explosion of the #MeToo movement, feminists have amplified our voices and embraced our momentum, declaring with full force that women will not be silenced, and we will not go back.”

The day after Donald Trump was inaugurated, 5.6 million people in at least 999 marches, in all 50 states, in 92 countries, and on all 7 continents took to the streets to resist Trump’s agenda of taking healthcare away from millions, of taking away women’s access to abortion and birth control, of denying climate change and destroying the EPA, and of dismantling civil rights protections for African Americans, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ community.

“Last year, the naysayers tried to dismiss the marches as a one-time event,” Smeal continued, “but they know now what we knew then: that we will not go away and are determined to change the direction of this nation.”

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