The Social Action Committee helped organize a tremendous North Country showing at the Women’s March on Washington on January 21. The mission of the Women’s March:
“In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore.
The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.”
Two buses full of marchers, plus a third carrying St. Lawrence University students, left Canton early Friday morning to travel to Washington, DC. James offered a blessing to the marchers on each of the buses before their departure. Upon arrival in Bethesda, Maryland, the group was treated to a community supper by members of the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation and many were hosted overnight in the homes of RRUUC members. (Shout out to Canton congregation member, retired UU minister Dave Weissbard for the connection to his former intern, the Rev. Nancy Ladd at RRUUC!).
The North Country contingent’s trip to the march got a lot of press. Click here, here, and here for newspaper articles and here for an interview on NCPR.
Not only that, but Betsy Kepes and our friend Nancy Alessi were noted in this article in The New Yorker!
Check out pictures of UU friends in Washington in the church’s Facebook album. (If you have photos to add, please send them to communications@uucantonny.org).