Last year’s Women’s March was a successful protest that allowed women from all over the world regain their power and take to the streets in protest of various intersectional issues that affect women and femme-identified people. And this year’s Women’s March Anniversary: Power to the Polls is rapidly approaching on January 21 — however, you don’t need to travel to the event’s official location in Las Vegas to get involved in your own way.
While the Women’s March would give you are your activist friends the perfect reason to finally travel to Vegas, you can still show your support for this movement by attending a march in your local area. Thankfully, the Women’s March has an interactive map that will allow you to find a nearby event.
If you can’t find a Women’s March in your city or town, Sister Marches are worldwide solidarity events that help support the Women’s March mission. Bustle reports that there are approximately 700 Sister Marches across the globe, so you don’t have a valid reason for not attending one of these productive events.
As Lifehacker notes, this year’s participants include Cecile Richards the president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Representative John Lewis and Alicia Garza, who is one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter.
Whether you are just becoming an active advocate for women’s rights or you’ve been a seasoned feminist for the last decade, this year’s Women’s March anniversary will give you some vital inspiration to continue to fight for change. However, we completely understand if you can’t attend one of this year’s events—after all, life does happen and nobody can blame you for needing a paycheck or getting the flu.
If you still want to help the Women’s March fight for intersectional women’s rights (i.e. human rights), you can always donate to the cause or donate your time, energy and talents to different groups that do work that matters to you. If money is tight, you can volunteer for similar organizations, like Get Her Elected, that advocate for positive change by helping women politicians run for office.
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