Delawareans will march to celebrate women’s empowerment in Newark on Saturday.
Co-organizer Liz Carlisle says the focus of Delaware’s annual Women’s March has shifted since it began in 2017. That year women’s marches across the country protested the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Carlisle says this year’s march will focus on the final passage of the state Equal Rights Amendment in Delaware this week.
“Women can influence legislation,” said Carlisle. “We are fighting for our rights and we will continue to do so. And the passage of the ERA is a major, major step for us.”
She says the march will also celebrate the historic gains female candidates made in elections locallyand across the country last fall. The goal is "keeping our energy going, keeping the momentum going and keeping ourselves out there as force in society and a force in American politics,” said Carlisle.
Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester, Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long and several state legislators will speak at the march.
Carlisle says the march is supported by roughly a dozen organizations including the ACLU of Delaware, the League of Women Voters and the Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy in the state Department of Human Resources.
Saturday’s march departs from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Newark.
