ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI C DISPATCH.COM FREE! FRIDAY | JANUARY 20, 2017 City eyes Golden Triangle residents head $500K to women’s marches Saturday a message, and I want to Some take to Washington, others to Jackson be part of that,” Lee said. “I want to be part of histo- subsidy BY ISABELLE ALTMAN guration of President Donald Trump at ry.
[email protected] the Women’s March on Washington. “The day after the election, I was on “The Trump adminis- Tonight, Starkville resident Kar- Facebook and I heard about this,” Lee tration aside, I’m also go- for SPD in Lee will get on a plane bound for ing just for women’s rights said. “My friend said, ‘Let’s get a hotel Washington, D.C., with nothing but her room’ and she did.” Lee in general,” she added. Requests to fund purse, a change of underwear and a pair The movement, which began on Face- “This is 2017, and we’re of socks. book and has inspired similar marches still talking about reproductive rights, police headquarters, When she gets off the plane in the in every state, protests what many in the we’re still talking about birth control nation’s capital Saturday morning, she’ll country feel is an administration hos- and whether insurance should pay for MHP substation head straight to the National Mall to tile to women and other marginalized that. We’re still not getting equal pay.” before Legislature join what’s expected to be more than groups. More than 217,000 people have indi- 200,000 marchers protesting the inau- “The sheer numbers of it should send See MARCHES, 3A BY CARL SMITH
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