[chatter] we will not bow down. We will not bow down to injustice we will not bow down to exploitation stand, i am going to stand no will not obey, no, racism we will not obey, exploitation staaand i cannot tolerate, races and racism. I cannot tolerate injustice i cannot tolerate exploitation. I am going to stand, i am going to stand [applause] i am going to stand what are you going to do . I am going to stand [applause] how are we doing today d. C. . Let me hear you, how are we doing today [applause] you all are great today. Rise. Song we use our music to is buyer action through song and to remind us where we have been and where we are going together. [applause] we hope that these next songs inspire you today to keep marching, to keep singing, to keep voting, to keep running for office, and to keep your mind on freedom [applause] i woke up this morning with my mind standing on freedom morning on up this freedom you know, i woke up this morning with my mind standing on freedom, hallelujah, hallelujah walking and talking with my mind on freedom. Walking and talking with my mind, on freedom say i am walking and talking with my mind, on freedom, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah walk,n and walk, walk, walk, on freedom coming, walking on freedom come on and walk, walk come on and talk, talk come on and walk, walk with your mind on freedom oh, hallelujah there a no harm in speaking your mind aint no harm on keeping your mind on freedom keeping it on freedom hallelujah, hallelujah [applause] woohoo nobodynt going to let turned me around, turned me around turned me around i ghana let nobody aint going to let nobody turned me around, i am going to keep on walking yeah keep on marching. Gohead marching onto freedom land. Turned me around, turned me around, turned me around aint going to let nobody turned me around. Going to keep on walking, keep on marching, marching up to freedom land turned me around, turned me around, and going to let nobody tell me to turn around, im going to keep on walking, keep on talking, marching up to freedom land. England and let no person turn noaround, turned me around, turned me around. Going to keep on walking, going to keep on marching, going to keep on marching up to freedom land eight ghana let no president , turned me around eight going to let no president , turned me around, going to keep on walking, keep on talking, keep on marching up to freedom land turnedoing to let nobody me around, turned me around, turned me around aint going to let nobody, turned me around, going to keep on walking, keep on talking, marching up to freedom land [applause] thank you. Thank you all. On walking, keep on talking, marching up to freedom hello, my sisters, my nevertheless we will persisters my name is emily patton, i am one of the coorganizers of todays event and i am beyond thrilled to see all of you here. Of my to give my shutout arlington democrats, where are you . [applause] last year, we saw the single largest protest in u. S. History. [applause] start. S just the women have been at the heart of the resistance at every single turn. We have raised our voices, told our stories and we have marched. We have come out for health care, the environment, sciencebased information, and racialave come out for justice. [applause] and today, we are standing racil justice. [applause] with d. R. E. A. M. E. R. S. , right now, while their lives are on the line [applause] this year is going to be 0. Istance 2. Women and their allies are watching what is happening on washington, and we will not let up. [applause] we will make our message heard at the polls this fall, which is why we are urging people to get registered to vote today [applause] , is about showing that we are not tired, and that the resistance works. We are absolutely thrilled to see so many women running for office in 2018, and we will keep having marches until our government looks like us and actually represents our rights [applause] we are not tired, we are just getting started. And to get this rally started, it is my pleasure to introduce the newlycrowned miss district of columbia, bryce armstrong. [applause] hello. Good morning. So, my name is bryce armstrong, i am the newly crowned miss district of columbia, usa. I am really proud to be here. We are so excited to have you good morning. Here, we want everyone to have a fun day and be safe. We ask everyone to please stay off the ice, i hope they can hear me back there. And to please stay on the sidewalks. We thank everyone for being here. We now have representative higher . Ier representative much. Nk you, very happy anniversary, mr. President one year, and we have that trump shutdown my grandmother was a suffragette. She buyer she marched marched in berkeley, but you was 28 years old before she had the chance to vote. She was a suffragette. She was 28 years old, before she had the chance to vote. Among the greatest tragedies of history is mans suppression of the junius and power and creativity of women. The genius, the power and creativity of women. I have three daughters, one wife, and they are the smartest, sunniest, most kick as persons i know. I have Three Sisters who changed the lives of every person they and i am extremely fortunate to serve in the house of representatives, with 89 women. I am pretty sure that if mr. Mcconnell were a woman, if paul ryan were a woman, if our president was a woman, we would not be in the middle of a trump shutdown right now. [applause] looks, and politics, we say, if you do not run, you cannot win. Well, to all the women of america, ice it, if you dont lead. Ou cannot lead. You cannot be in charge, you cannot change the world and all the most important ways. So please, run. Run scared, run smart, run hard and run for every woman throughout history, who was denied the opportunity to use all of her potential to make this world a better place thank you keith marching [applause] keep marching. [applause] now we have a virginia date delegate Virginia State delegate here to speak to us. [indiscernible] [crowd yelling] [applause] last year, i marched, then i , then i won. [applause] fowler i am proud to introduce myself. I am kelly fowler, the representative from the 21st district in virginia. [applause] where are all my virginia friends who helped me . [applause] we did this together. Before last year, i never imagined i would run for office. But i brought my daughter to the womens march last year, to lift her. It was her birth day on inauguration day. Today, she is nine years old. Happy birth day she was born on obamas inauguration day, a great day her,s really hard to tell but she would not get the first woman president on her eighth birthday so we brought her to the march, and we marched. Time,not realize at the that it was not just for her ,hat i came, it was also for me and to lift my spirit, to get me to the place i needed to be, to take my seat at the table. Just about winning a few seats, it is about changing a tone at a country, in our country, in our world, and our lives. Yes, we are changing the world every day, every one of us, the way we march. When we run for office, woman volunteer, when we vote just[applause] when we speak out. So let us continue doing that, keep doing it thank you [applause] happy birthday to you happy birthday to you [crowd singing] [applause] happy birth day. Now we have the Founding Member noble west,le of and she is also known as nasty grandma. [applause] speaker hi everybody. I am a street fighter from the bronx [applause] but you mommies and then and ants, cousins, and uncles, friends, neighbors, you are the resistance. Give yourselves a bit hand [applause] tell me what democracy looks like . [crowd] this is what democracy looks like [chanting] this resistance brought common sense to politics. We did not follow the rules, we made them up as he went. This is our power, we think of the box. We try things and if they work, we do more. We here in virginia, showed everyone that the resistance can in fact vote them out of office [applause] we turned our cause into Campaign Offices so that we could canvas for multiple candidates at the same time. We canvassed in red districts. Did it works, dam sure it did we elected eight candidates in transfer in county in Prince William county. We defeated voldemort. We elected candidates in Kelly Stewart back ground. Ldemort. Backyard. We show the campaigns that there is so much more between canvassing and phone calls and we do not let them push us around. We made ourselves more efficient. Moreve our voters much information and we campaigned for everyone at the same time, not just the top of the ticket. We made it up as we went, we did what made sense to us. We got commuters to vote absentee. At the end, we started to get calls from the campaign about going to a commuter lots and less lots, and we led the way bus lots. 2018 is much bigger, we need to get more people out to vote [applause] we have to register more people. Canvas in the red precincts, it works. We have double the number of people who voted in one red precinct. Ismon sense says that it silly to go to the same house five times. You should ask them to send you into a red district to canvas. The votes that you find in a red district will not turn it blue, but every vote counts, and we know only too well, what that means. We cannot allow any of the elections to be close, when they are, theyre cheating works thieeir cheating works. The young organizers do not live in these neighborhoods. Some of them have experience. Guide them. But perhaps, the most important thing, is that we found each other. In our communities, and our states, and across the state [applause] s i love you. Fired up [applause] now we have Judy Gearhart are you ready to continue this resistance . Continue every day for many years to come. There are three big reasons. That we need to stand up for the women to want to claim their voice at the ballot box. We have to stand up for women that want to fight Sexual Harassment on the street or in their home. That i third reason stand here today is because we need to stop Sexual Violence in the workplace. We need to stop all forms of Sexual Harassment, all forms of abuse and all forms of the use of power to make women do what they do not want to do. Here for all of the women we work with from the garment factories in los angeles to the garment factories in bangladesh to the fields of tobacco growing women in malawi and North Carolina. There are women around the world who are working and flailing and do not have the voice to defend their rights at work. This resistance, if we want equality, it has got to trickle all the way down to every worker and every woman. Thank you and keep up the fight thee are so excited to have senator of connecticut, senator blumenthal. Senator blumenthal i bring you greetings from the great state of connecticut. Proud toso proud, so be a u. S. Senator from connecticut here, today on this Beautiful Day with from again, i was here last year, some of the best fighters and activists and advocates in the whole country. You are here today to send a message. What democracy looks like. Activismhat citizen looks like and engagement. And we are going into the next anction to turn around administration that has nothing ,ut contempt for womens rights workers rights, and equal rights for all americans. We are going to put a stop to all of this. That it is more than going to a march, as important as that is. It is about engagement at every level. The grassroots level. It is about voter registration. And women are marching and showing us the way, forging new paths. They are not only marching, they are running, running for office. And we need more of them. We need more of them in the u. S. Senate and in every state capital across the country. For being the conscience of america. Know, for many, many years, i was in law enforcement. I was a federal prosecutor. And then the attorney general our state in connecticut. And i know how important, how fundamental the role of law is in this country. You are here upholding basic rights. We need to keep fighting. We need to keep working. We need to keep marching so that we can uphold what makes america truly great. Our rights. Our liberties. Our freedom. We will never give up. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for showing us what democracy looks like. I look forward to marching, running, and fighting with you. Thank you so much. God bless our great country. Thank you. Thank you, senator. Now, we have a lease ryan. Clue. The president of thank you, clean. Good morning, family. Bring you greetings and salutations on behalf of the members of the coalition of labor union women, clue. I am a union woman just as strong as i can be i do not like the bosses and the bosses do not like me which side are you on . Nevermind, that is a rhetorical question. I know which side you are on. You are on the side of equal equals. You are on the side of the dreamers. You are the resistance that says metoo. Time is up. The marchersby est yelled basta basta. Sisters are not afraid of power. Stop a sexualo harassment and a in our workplace, in our schools, on our college campuses, in our homes and in our unions. Women met in chicago to envision and demand equal opportunity for women in unions and to organize the unorganized. I stand on the shoulders of old , of of joyce of olga joyce miller and all of the founding mothers of clue who taught me that a womans place is in her union. Let me add to that, a womans place is in the house of representatives. A womans place is in the senate. A womans place is in the white house and we are coming for it. Are you with me . That the who think time of unions is over, let me ask you this. What is the first line of the u. S. Constitution . Form, people, in order to a more perfect what . A more perfect what . Union. They did not say organization or club. They said union. And look it this union of people here today. Yes. Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. I am going to close with the words of sojourner truth. Yes. Born in 1851. Addressed to Womens Rights Convention in akron, ohio. And she said if the first woman that god made was able to turn this here world upside down all by herself, then these women here today, with our brothers, will be able to turn it right side up again. So, we shall march. We shall sing. We shall resist. And we shall overcome. I know that deep in my heart i do believe altogether day. All overcome some power to the women. Power to the people. So now, we have susan platt, president of platt consulting. Susan good morning. What a Beautiful Day to be outside in washington and marching. Let me start by saying they will tell you you are not qualified. You that itill tell is not your turn. You, you doill tell not understand the issues. And then, they will tell you, you cannot win. They tell you to smile more. Tell you to do something with your hair. They tell the you they do not like how you dress. And then they tell you you cannot win. And now, it seems that because the current resident of 1600 pennsylvania avenue constantly demeans women, his supporters think it is ok. They post a photo of you with a news noose over your head. They send out your home address and tell others to destroy your property. They call you derogatory and hurtful names that are meant to be little and scare you. Ok then they say it is because you cannot win anyway. You they doy tell not like the way you campaign as a woman, you ask them what or who you are supposed to Campaign Like . I will Campaign Like the woman because i am a woman. Today most particularly, women governed differently. Govern differently. Women have a different way of listening and compromising. They do not just get up from the table and tweet lies and insults. Or like the congressman from virginia seventh who says he will not meet with women because they were getting up in his grill. Let me tell every woman here a secret, you have already won. Why . You have found your motivation and you have empowered yourself and others. You are adding another crack in the glass ceiling. Women cracked that ceiling in november in virginia last november. Rome could donica not be elected to the house of delegates because she gender. But she won. Elizabethhannah, and two latinas could not be elected to the house of delegates, but they won. Aey said Jennifer Carroll for could not win because she was pregnant with twins who were born during the campaign. But guess what . She won. Women seven other strong who did not listen to all those that said they could not win. 15 new, 11 of the members of the Virginia House of delegates are women. When former Virginia Attorney general barry said. , the only woman in virginias history to win statewide office, and i started the first two organizations dedicated to recruiting, mentoring, and contributing to women ofdidates, women have 11 the seats in the house of delegates. Comprise 28 of the house of delegates. Women voters did that. You did that. You are we there yet . Are we done yet . The womens marches that took place around the world last year ignited something so organic, spontaneous, and powerful that our voices cannot and will not be stopped. 2017 was not the first womans march on washington. That happened in 1917. More than 100 years ago. When 10 women suffer just were prepared to be imprisoned for parading in front of the white house with signs that read mr. President , what will you do for womens suffrage . And how long must women wait for year,y question mark last more than one million men, women , and children who support them, r pink hats and marched on washington again for causes just as important as a womans right to vote. What Margaret Thatcher said you may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Last year, we took our despair and disappointment and used them to harness our collective power. We worked our hearts out and proved that we can win and we did win in virginia. And last year, i did something i never thought i would ever do in my 62 years. I ran for office. Wow what an experience. I met people all over the commonwealth of virginia and was so energized by how many told me they had not done enough and they were getting more involved, many for the first time. Name willhis year my but that the ballot, does not mean that my job or uris is finished. Or your is finished. We found out this year how important one vote is. The winner was determined by picking one name out of a fishbowl. Republicans name was chosen. No race should ever have to be decided like that. Toave worked for decades increase womens participation in politics and i believe in that cause with every ounce of my being. But let us not forget t