With mere days left before the 2024 election, hundreds of people are expected to meet on Boston Common on Saturday for a Women’s March.
The march will start and end in front of the State House, looping a mile through the Common in between, and will feature a number of local speakers. Just over 400 people were registered to attend as of Friday afternoon.
Ashland resident Tracy Murphy organized the Boston event, and said it was her first time ever planning a march.
“I was starting to feel really helpless, and I was like I need to do something so that at least no matter what happens, no matter where we end up on Nov. 6, I know I gave it my all,” Murphy told GBH News.
The march will kick off at 2 p.m. and is expected to end around 4 p.m. State Sen. Rebecca Rausch is one of the speakers who will be attending.
“I’m looking forward to being in community and in solidarity with hundreds of other people who, all of us there, hold these deeply important values of fairness and justice and equity and basic human rights,” said Rausch.
Boston resident Nellie King said she plans to attend the march.
“I’ve never done anything like this before, but it just sounded really appealing. I’m concerned about how women’s [rights], especially reproductive rights have been curtailed lately, like we’re taking a big step backwards,” King said.
The Boston march is just one of several across the country on Saturday, with the largest march expected in Washington, D.C. Advocates are marching in support of women’s rights and Vice President Kamala Harris’s candidacy.
The first women’s march took place in January 2017 shortly after former President Donald Trump was inaugurated. More than 175,000 people attended that march in Boston, and 500,000 people marched on Washington.
