OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Women’s March that brought 10,000 people to the state Capitol last year to protest President Donald Trump and advocate for women’s rights is set to return to Olympia in the form of a Saturday rally.
The anniversary rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Saturday on the Capitol Campus. Organizers estimate 5,000 people will show up. It’s one of roughly 200 similar events expected across the country Saturday, including in Seattle and Aberdeen.
Last year's march, held shortly after Trump's inauguration, brought large crowds to Olympia and elsewhere. More than 1 million people rallied worldwide, according to the Associated Press.
Organizers of this year’s event in Olympia say the group is demanding a “society in which women — including black women, native women, poor women, immigrant women, disabled women, Muslim women, lesbian queer and trans women — are free and able to care for and nurture their families, however they are formed, in safe and healthy environments free from structural impediments.”
The national group also has an agenda that touches on issues from abortion and access to contraception, to minimum wage laws and environmental policies.
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On Saturday in Olympia, the 11 a.m. rally will be followed by a march — hosted separately by the advocacy group Olympia Embrace — at 12:30 p.m. Organizers say their route will take people from the Winged Victory monument on the Capitol Campus, down the nearby switchbacks to Capitol Lake and around the lake to Heritage Park.
An alternative route will head north on Columbia Street Southwest to Heritage Park.
There is no formal event in Tacoma, according to the Women’s March website.