By Alisha Dixon
Women from all over the country plan to march on Washington to promote inclusion, fairness and equality for all.
The women are set to travel to Washington on Jan. 21. The day was chosen because it will be the first day in office for the President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
Akilah Russell, 23, is from Detroit and plans to take the trip to D.C.
“I’m trying to organize a bus out of Detroit,” she said. “Really, what we’re doing is … finding ways to make it more accessible to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to go.
“So much of what (President-elect Trump) said seemed flat-out wrong to me, but it also scared me. … I firmly believe that the personal informs the political. And so when he is in the political realm spewing all sorts of just awful, awful things, he has to know that he is affecting people’s very personal lives. I don’t think that anything we do will get him to step down or you know, anything super-drastic like that. But I do want him to know he will be held accountable for what he has said thus far, everything he will say and by the company he keeps.”
Pantsuit Nation, a pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook page is responsible for encouraging the demonstration.
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