“Inspiration and Solidarity”
Participants in the Women’s March on Washington explain their reasons for going
“As a rural farmer,”
Courtney Grimes-Sutton says, “I am pro-diversity, anti-monoculture, and supportive of the crumbling of white supremacy.” (Barry Goldstein)
Last summer, we asked Barry Goldstein to photograph attendees and protesters at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Now we’re sending him to Washington, D.C., to document the crowds making their way down to the capital, both to celebrate and to protest. He traveled to several gatherings in the Northeast this week to photograph people who plan to attend the Women’s March on Washington this Saturday.
View some more images here.
Jane Haugh, 54, mother of Maeve Brammer, 16, high school senior; Upper Jay, NY:I’m going to register my distress over what’s happening in the country. I’m bringing Maeve because our generation needs to help our kids to understand the responsibility of living in the wealthiest nation in the world, with the longest-running democracy. I don’t think that parents are doing this job well. I have some anxiety about this march because there’s been permission given for people on the other side to be uncivilized. But it’s time to do what we need to do.
Maeve: I’m going because it’s something I can do to have my voice heard and because I’m not old enough to vote yet. And I think that democracy works when ordinary people take action. I canvassed for Obama with my mother and sister when I was eight, and we went to his inauguration. This country has taken a turn toward the more violent recently and that scares me. And I know that, by going to the march, it’ll be the first time I’ll be putting myself in front of some of the violent things that have been happening. But I think that it’s worth it.
