Salma H: Why I Am Joining The March : I’m joining the march to add my voice to those of many other strong beautiful women and women rights advocates. I believe in fighting for justice, equity and dignity. As a teacher I have a special role in educating our youth and facilitating the development emotionally and…
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Salvatore Mastrelli
Because of the Affordable Care Act I can get medications. I had my first liver transplant 34 years ago, I am now 36 years old. All insurance companies at one time considered me as a Pre-Existing condition up to the Affordable Care act. I have seizures and I battle them with changes of medications every…
Sue Beardsley
I am here standing in solidarity with my woman sisters.
Chrystie
I would love to be able to march but can’t because I am disabled. I want to march for peace and equality.
Patricia Washburn
I am marching for women and girls, for black and Latino and Asian people, for gay people and poor people. I am marching for the values of compassion and knowledge and kindness.
Jeane
I am joining the disability march because…. I believe in loving ALL people created in God’s image, that all of us are created equal, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Pamela Rosen
I had planned to march. Just this week I was diagnosed with a heart problem and was told not to do any sort of exercise until they can sort out how to fix the problem. Ironic. Thirty years ago, my grandmother died of a heart attack in an apartment full of antacids. Her doctors didn’t…
Hannah
I’m a queer Jewish student with a non-visible disability, a neurological disorder, and several mental illnesses, I want to march, but I have to budget out my energy, and joining my local march would leave me too exhausted to meet any of my other obligations. I refuse to stand idly by when people are trying…
Pamela Vetro
I am a longtime activist. I March for women’s rights. I am injured and can not walk .