Hundreds take part in Women's March in Savannah

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About 24 hours after a new president was sworn into office, droves of Savannahians crowded Johnson and Wright squares to send a “bold message” to the new administration.

Sporting signs that read “Girls Just Want to have Fundamental Rights” and “Hate Does Not Make America Great,” hundreds packed the downtown areas as part of a local Women’s March parallel ling the thousands that came together in Chicago, New York City, Washington D.C and other major cities to promote both equal and women’s rights.

“This march is what we want to tell the administration and our legislators and what we want accomplished over the next four years,” said Murem Sharpe, vice chair of Georgia’s WIN List, which co-sponsored the event with Planned Parenthood Southeast. “We the people — we hired them. So we’re telling them issue by issue what we want them to do.”

The event was an opportunity for Savannah women who couldn’t travel to the national Women’s March in Washington, D.C., to participate right at home, Sharpe said.

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