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Regional Participation
The women’s march, popularized since 2017, is a global protest that happens each year in mid-January. The protest is largely political and historically has been in response to the election of Donald Trump. One the first day of his term women and men marched on Washington DC as well as 600 sister marches in cities spanning seven continents. Although the focus of the march was in Washington D.C., and national cities. Local grassroots effort in the form of sister marches, happened organically across the world and particularly throughout the United States.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania Sister March: "Stand up for Women!"
Protesters who took part in the various Women’s March events voiced their support for various causes, including women’s and reproductive rights, criminal justice, defense of the environment and the rights of immigrants, Muslims, gay and transgender people and the disabled—all of whom were seen as particularly vulnerable under the new administration. ” In Lancaster, PA a Sister March was directed by Louise Imm - Cooper a 1964 graduate of Millersville University, was held on January 21, 2017 at 10 am. “Our idea was to provide something for women who for some reason or another couldn't make it to Washington, said Imm - Cooper.” Twelve buses of locals reported made the pilgrimage to Washington D.C (six charter and six school buses.