I wish to join the online March as I live in Oregon and cannot get to DC. I marched there many times in the 60’S and early 70’s starting when I was 13. I marched for civil rights and women’s rights. I marched with Dr King and with NOW. I marched against the Vietnam War.

Events unfolding in our country require all of us to stand up and be seen and heard. We must show through peaceful actions that we will not tolerate a secretive government. We must send a message to the world that we are still a people who reach out many places to lend a hand or to show a newly forming government how democracy can benefit the majority and not just a select group bent on only their own gains…at any cost.

I am 66, white, American woman born into a working class family in the Midwest. My father went to work for a congressman moving us to Washington. I had the honor to meet both Robert and Ted Keneedy in person and to see John and Jackie at the Lincoln Memorial one Sunday morning. I heard a number of our politicians speak in Congress and it left a lasting impression.

I remember racism and I equality. I was arrested  for ” sitting in” more than once. I have watched our country grow, painfully at times. Now I am retired, raise a few horses in the Pacific NW and enjoy my family.

This is important to me because every voice matters