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Northwest Suburban Women’s March Events Set For Saturday

Demonstrations Planned In Des Plaines, Glenview, Buffalo Grove

Hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Downtown Chicago for the women’s march in 2018. (Tom Robb/Journal photo)

In past years the Women’s March took place as one massive demonstration in Chicago’s Grant Park. While a smaller Chicago event will take place this year, another focus is on suburban demonstrations.

Three demonstrations are planned in the Northwest suburbs of Des Plaines, Glenview, and Buffalo Grove all at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17.

The Buffalo Grove event at Mike Rylko Community Park, 801 McHenry Rd., has nine scheduled speakers including U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-10th), U.S. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-8th), and State Sen. Julie Morrison (D-29th). Subjects are expected to range from the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett by President Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court, to income inequality, racial equity, and police reform, LBGT rights, the environment, the importance of following the science, and health care.

The Buffalo Grove event is sponsored by NWSOFA Indivisible, Newtown Action Alliance,  Mundelein LGBT Alliance, and Allies, Northshore Human Rights, and Black Lives Matter Wheeling.

In Glenview, organizer Cathy Wilson said demonstrators will gather in Jackman Park at 11 a.m., marching down Lehigh Avenue to the corner of Glenview Road and Harlem Avenue where protesters would rally.

Cathy Wilson of Glenview (yellow jacket with megaphone) leads demonstrators across the intersection of Harlem Avenue and Glenview Road in a demonstration an April 2019 demanding Robert Mueller’s full report on possible links between Russians and the Trump for President campaign be released immediately. (Tom Robb/Journal photo)

“We are taking action in Glenview and across the nation on Oct. 17 to signal and strengthen our determination to finish what we started when millions of women first marched in January 2017. We’ve resisted those in power for three years, and now we are taking power back,” Wilson said in an email to the Journal.

Issues Wilson said would be highlighted include sexism and gender discrimination, demanding equal rights and opportunities and reproductive rights, equal pay, and criminal justice reform. The demonstration would also honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In Des Plaines, protesters will gather at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Oakton Street and Mannheim Road to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda and his nomination of Barrett to the Supreme Court.

At 11:45 a.m. protesters in Des Plaines plan to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a moment of silence and chanting “I dissent” nine times (one time for each of her 8-1 dissents in cases before the high court). Organizing the event are members of SPEAK (Supporting Positive Efforts of Action and Knowledge) Des Plaines.

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One response to “Northwest Suburban Women’s March Events Set For Saturday”

  1. Marie Lena says:

    I will be there in DesPlaines!!

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