{"id":2638,"date":"2017-02-07T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2017-02-08T10:19:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:19:54","slug":"warriors-join-in-on-2017-womens-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/warriors-join-in-on-2017-womens-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Join In On 2017 Women\u2019s March"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kanani Salazar and Abigail Sotelo<\/p>\n

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Yamaika Romano & Abigail Sotelo at Women’s March 2017 in Tucson, AZ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday, January 21, 2017 several Pueblo Magnet High School students and faculty participated in the Women\u2019s March, which began at Armory Park and ended at Joel D. Valdez Library Park.<\/p>\n

There were several purposes of the Women\u2019s March, including for marchers to advocate for equal rights of women, to end racial profiling and to voice opposition towards President Trump, who had just been inaugurated the day before. There were also protests related to pro-choice and birth control.<\/p>\n

Participant and Pueblo High School teacher Dr. Raul Gonzalez said, \u201cThis march was an opportunity for everyone to express themselves and to stand up for those groups and individuals who are under attack. I hope we don\u2019t miss more chances to actually do something about the injustices in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Men and women of all ages and of all races let their voices be heard. They used their power of communication to stand in solidarity with the many groups that have been under attack\u2014such as women themselves, the LGBTQ community and minorities.<\/p>\n

Pueblo High School teacher Ms. Victoria Bodanyi also committed to being a part of the march. She said, \u201cMarching was straight up goosebumps the whole time I marched. I felt I was a part of something bigger, and it felt good to stand up and speak out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marching inspired several of Pueblo\u2019s students to express themselves\u2014to voice their frustrations and opinions.<\/p>\n

Junior and participant Yamaika Romano Robles said, \u201cThe march made me feel stronger about the future. There\u2019s always hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another junior, Abigail Sotelo, said, \u201cDuring the march, I felt empowered by my own fortitude and my own convictions. I mattered\u2014my voice really mattered. I feel as if Donald Trump has nothing on me and nothing on America.\u201d She paused and added, \u201cTrump does not represent me, at all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kanani Salazar and Abigail Sotelo On Saturday, January 21, 2017 several Pueblo Magnet High School students and faculty participated in the Women\u2019s March, which began at Armory Park and ended at Joel D. Valdez Library Park. There were several purposes of the Women\u2019s March, including for marchers to advocate for equal rights of women, … Continue reading Warriors Join In On 2017 Women\u2019s March<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[135,22,250],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-Gy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2640,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}