People began to gather at Nyack’s Veterans Park Saturday morning, January 20, in solidarity with participants in the second Women’s March taking place across the country.

This weekend marks the one year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, his first full year in office and also the massive nationwide Women’s March. A year ago on January 21, hundreds of thousands of women and men across the country hit the streets in protest in a mass demonstration of people peaceably assembling for social and economic justice and civil liberty — with many anxious that the country was on the cusp of radical change.

This weekend, while the U.S. Congress plays hardball party politics and debates the merits of shutting down the government, President Trump purportedly decided it was best to cancel his appearance at a $200,000 per person Victory Campaign fundraiser at his private millionaire’s club Mar-a-Lago in Florida, though the fundraiser will go on.

Thanks for the art @theAmarettogirl and https://t.co/SHxlTtYbLE seen at the #resist rally in Nyack, NY #EqualityForAll #WomenMarch2018 pic.twitter.com/TyIGSTJVLU

— Clare Sheridan (@bowesheridan) January 20, 2018

Many in Rockland County opted to meet up in Nyack’s Veterans Park on Saturday to attend a rally in solidarity with the second national Women’s March.

Meanwhile, thousands of men and women across the country are out marching during the second Women’s March.

Nyack, NY saw a turnout of people who rallied at Veterans Park and featured an appearance by New York Assemblymember Ellen Jaffe, who represents NY District 97 in Rockland County that covers constituents from Suffern and Montebello east to Nyack.

Nyack’s Veterans Park on Saturday, January 20, during a rally of the second Women’s March.

Participants in Nyack gather with colorful signs containing pithy messages on why they were there. Influenced by the the recent #MeToo and #TimesUp movement, both rooted in widespread reports of sexual harassment and worse by men across all walks of life, today’s marches were an effort to demonstrate solidarity on issues of equal rights and the right of people to peaceably assemble and vociferously redress grievances.

Nyack pic.twitter.com/jhhf2CdFwX

— Patsy Wooters (@patsywooters) January 20, 2018

And here was the 1/2/3 subway platform at Times Square, packed with people getting to the Upper West Side for this afternoon’s Women’s March: pic.twitter.com/oa2960HWhi

— Cora Lewis (@cora) January 20, 2018

WOMEN’S MARCH: From New York City to Los Angeles and many cities in between, thousands of women and their supporters took to the streets Saturday, vowing to show up at the polls this year for midterm elections amid the government shutdown and outrage over Pres. Trump’s agenda. pic.twitter.com/fFidoOMhb6

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) January 20, 2018

Yeah, no big deal. !!!!! Go DC!! RT @GerrenPeterson: Holy smokes!!!!! #WomensMarch #WomensMarchNYC #TRUMPshutdown #GOPshutdown pic.twitter.com/oV2P7V0uFE

— Samantha Levin (@Binnorie) January 20, 2018

Tuxedo, NY resident Sue Scher, originally from Brooklyn, attended the Women’s March in NYC with old friends from her Camp Kinderland days, a camp in Tolland, MA founded in 1923 by Jewish activists as a retreat for children from the tenements of NYC.

Saturday morning in Sloatsburg started off foggy from unseasonable muggy weather, but a small group of area women were already on their way to Manhattan to merge with others traveling into the city from across the Hudson Valley, and beyond. The first thing people saw upon arriving in the city were others streaming in from subway stops and buses, and plenty of colorful signs on display.

The day in the city turned out to be one for the history books, as similar mass marches of men and women took place across the country. Continue Reading