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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 133, No. 44
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017
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Women March Throughout the Nation
OVER 8,000 JAM ITHACA COMMONS
CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS
We, the people | Protesters chant and
Sun Staff Writer
carry signs on the Commons Saturday, joining others marching through the streets of downtown Ithaca, all resisting infringement of women’s rights.
Thousands of chanting women and men cascaded through the Ithaca Commons on Saturday during the Women’s March on Ithaca, greatly surpassing organizers’ expectations and forming the largest political gathering in the city in recent memory. A sea of colorful clothes, clever signs and committed Ithacans gathered at Ithaca City Hall and marched along a one-mile route that was much too short to accommodate the large crowds. Some would-be marchers at the back of the rally had not moved by the time marchers at the front had completed their lap around downtown Ithaca. Nonetheless, between 8,000 and 10,000 people ultimately surrounded the Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Commons,
“Today we march on, we rise. This is a day in history. The snapshot of you is all around our world.”
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Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton
Students Find Cornell Spirit of Protest in Washington By RACHEL WHALEN Sun Staff Writer
While thousands gathered on the Ithaca Commons to support women’s and civil rights, many Cornell students traveled to the nation’s capital to greet the newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump with protests and
chants of dissent. They joined hundreds of thousands of others at the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. on Saturday. The marchers were in the company of activists such as Gloria Steinem and Angela Davis and celebrities including Alicia Keys, Janelle Monáe and Madonna. These women’s words
echoed through the city that saw Trump’s inauguration as the nation’s 45th president only a day before. Signs broadcasting messages such as “Women are the Wall, Trump Will Pay” ambled towards the White House, while cries of “We will not go away — welcome to your first day!” reverberated off of its walls.
Alanna Salwen ’19 described the dissenting atmosphere as “truly beautiful.” “To me, the march, and all the solidarity marches … are more about signaling the beginning of actions of resistance and continual organizing See WASHINGTON page 4