Women’s marches will take place in ten Michigan cities Saturday. The third annual event began as a protest against administration policies on the day after President Donald Trump took office two years ago. The events in Adrian, Ann Arbor, Benton Harbor, Detroit, Douglas, East Lansing, Grand Rapids, Holland, Marquette, and Traverse City are sister marches to a large event in the nation’s capital. Randy Block, with the Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network, says he hopes Michigan will turn a corner now that Democratic women have been elected to the three top positions in the state executive branch.
“So, that’s a very powerful thing, that the top leaders in Michigan are all women and are, you know, working for social change.”
Block adds even though the state legislature remains in Republican control, he hopes Governor Gretchen Whitmer will work to expand access to birth control and abortion, affirm LGBT rights, promote humane treatment of immigrants, and reverse efforts to gut the minimum-wage law.
