The Women’s March in Washington last year. KCII photo

Clean water, equal pay, and stopping voter suppression are a few of the issues that will be displayed on signs in downtown Washington Saturday for the Women’s March. Carol Ray, who helped organize the event in Washington, explains why it is held, “It’s to show the world, or the country, that women do count. That you know, there’s an old saying that women hold up half the sky. And I think sometimes people need to be reminded of that. There’s so many things, you know we still don’t get equal pay. The Me Too movement really showed how women have been abused over the years, and no one has paid attention to them. And the fact that there were still fairly low numbers of women in the legislatures, but look at what happened this year, you know, there are 131 women in Congress now. So the movement, you know, is really to show people what’s going on and to support women and what we need to do.”

This is the third year that a Women’s March has been organized in Washington. The national movement began three years ago with a march in Washington, D.C., the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Anyone is welcome, women and men, to join the march in downtown Washington Saturday starting at noon at the Washington County Courthouse.