“Nevertheless we persisted.”
St. Louis- Several thousands of women and men, children and grandparents marched from Union Station to the Old Courthouse on Saturday morning.
This year’s annual Women’s March, “celebrates the great strides made in the past year and aims to inspire even more women to pledge to take action to affect change in their lives and the lives of their neighbors, every day,” according to STL Women’s March.
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These were the signs and the people of the St. Louis 2018 Women’s March:
There were more than 40 speakers at City Hall and Luther Ely Smith Plaza. Missouri Coalition of Labor Union Women and League of Women Voters were a few of the organizations that sponsored the event.
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President Donald Trump tweeted this afternoon about the marches taking place all across the nation.
Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!
