battering, raping, selling, buying, and murdering women.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cami Leonard, Dine\u2019 actress, photographer and filmmaker, said she attended the International Women\u2019s Day March to support all of her sisters from around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can feel the darkness here in my heart. My heart hurts for all those effected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Along the trek that went from the UNM Bookstore to the president\u2019s house in the middle of campus to Lomas Avenue and then south on university, Leonard photographed the event as moms held hands with their daughters and fathers marched in unity.<\/p>\n
As they chanted and walked, they raised signs that read \u2013 No ICE-No DAPL-No TRUMP, End the War on Women\u2019s Rights, Full Equality or Fight, Safe and Legal Abortions, and Defend Trans Lives.<\/p>\n
Looking around, Leonard said, \u201cWe can stand strong, together.\u201d Speaker Maya Oliveros-Orozco, who traces her lineage partly to the Muskogee Creek Nation, expressed the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to raise our voices so that others know they are not alone; so, they don\u2019t have to be fearful,\u201d she told the group gathered back near the bookstore after the march.<\/p>\n
Bringing attention to the Standing Rock Sioux\u2019s resistance to the Dakota access pipeline, she stated, \u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking. They (pipeline constructors and agents) put elders and children at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
She asked why pipeline developers couldn\u2019t find another route like they did for the residents of Bismarck, North Dakota when they protested the pipeline near their community. \u201cWhat makes them more valuable, their lives, and their way of life?\u201d<\/p>\n
PSL organizer Sylvia Grass (Choctaw\/ Cherokee) said that with Trump\u2019s immigration ban, history is repeating itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am here, today, on behalf of all families being ripped apart by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement). As a native woman, I will not stand by and watch an entire generation of children and parents separated by our government. It is wrong. We have the duty to stand up, scream out and say, \u2018No, this cannot happen again,\u2019\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n
Grass told of how her Choctaw grandmother was impacted from being taken away from her family at a young age and placed in a boarding school.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had nightmares her whole life from what she witnessed there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Organizers encouraged attendees to tell their stories, to get to know each other and to participate in the political process.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is power in people coming together like this,\u201d said Grass.<\/p>\n
In their party material, the organization calls for an end to deportations, universal healthcare, defense for abortion rights, ending mass incarcerations and police brutality, bringing the troops home, and shutting down U.S. overseas military bases, abolishing student debt, equal rights for the LGBTQ community, free child care, and guaranteed access and equality for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n
During the event, Rubio announced that women who appeared to follow extreme conservative politics told students participating in the march that they were sinners and that she should act like a lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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