Nearly 3,000 march for women at WV Capitol
Thousands of women and men from across West Virginia and neighboring states filled the steps of the Capitol Saturday afternoon in a demonstration for women’s rights that mirrored the march of hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., and other events across the country.
Organizers of the Women’s March on West Virginia counted 2,800 people who marched around the Capitol complex following the demonstration, though hundreds more had stayed behind to sing and dance on the steps.
“There’s an awful lot of us who thought you all were asleep,” said Nancy Guthrie, a former state delegate who recently lost the election to represent Kanawha County’s 36th District by only 13 votes. “But you’re not asleep. You’re wide awake, and you’re here.”
Many of the attendees said they had wanted to attend the march in D.C., but they couldn’t afford the travel or the time away from their families. Marchers carried signs decrying President Donald Trump. As they marched, they sang “Bread and Roses,” a song first sung during a 1912 labor strike.
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