As the first winter storm of 2019 loomed Saturday, a different kind of storm was taking place in Veteran’s Memorial Centre Park:
Women’s March Cobleskill, a sister event to rallies and marches held across the country.
This year’s event drew a considerably smaller crowd than the first two but the 85 or so participants were just as loud in calling for change—mostly to President Donald Trump’s administration—with signs on immigration and the wall, women’s rights, respect, and the Mueller investigation lining Main Street.
Organizer Bobbi Wilding of Empowered Together said not only has there been too little change since the 2016 election, “We’ve watched as many GOP leaders echoed” President Trump’s “behavior of insults and name-calling.”
But she also spoke to the “blue wave” that came in the 2018 election, with younger women, and Native American and Muslim women all elected.
“Women who are speaking power to power…We have a long road ahead of us,” she continued, and then to cheers, “but canvassing, writing letters, making phone calls,” helped elect Democratic Congressman Antonio Delgado.
Rally participants shared quotes from women they admired; among them: Civil rights activist Rosa Parks, Anne Frank, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, elected to Congress in November and already making waves.