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the lake forest leader | January 12, 2017 | 3<br />
10th District to join Women’s March on Washington<br />
Courtney Jacquin<br />
Contributing Editor<br />
While some will be celebrating<br />
on Inauguration<br />
Day Jan. 20, local men and<br />
women will be gearing up<br />
to bus across the country to<br />
protest.<br />
A group of 55 will be<br />
traveling as a group from<br />
the 10th District to Washington<br />
Jan. 21 for the<br />
Women’s March on Washington,<br />
which is slated to<br />
be the largest inauguration<br />
weekend protest.<br />
“People are very angry,<br />
and people are very frightened<br />
for what it means for<br />
their rights and the rights<br />
of people they care about,”<br />
Lauren Beth Gash, founding<br />
chairwoman of Tenth<br />
District Democrats, of<br />
Highland Park, said. “They<br />
“People are very angry, and people are very<br />
frightened for what it means for their rights and<br />
the rights of people they care about. They want to<br />
do something, and they felt this was something<br />
they could do.”<br />
-Lauren Beth Gash, founding chairwoman, Tenth District Democrats<br />
want to do something, and<br />
they felt this was something<br />
they could do.”<br />
According to the event’s<br />
website, the march “will<br />
send a bold message to our<br />
new government on their<br />
first day in office, and to the<br />
world that women’s rights<br />
are human rights.”<br />
More than 170,000 people<br />
have indicated on the<br />
march’s official Facebook<br />
page they will be going.<br />
According to a Washington<br />
Post article, the organizers<br />
have secured a permit for<br />
200,000 people near the<br />
U.S. Capitol on the day of<br />
the event.<br />
The bus carrying the activists<br />
will depart from the<br />
Home Depot parking lot in<br />
Deerfield, 655 Lake Cook<br />
Road, at 6 p.m. Jan. 20.<br />
Travelers will arrive the<br />
morning of the march, Jan.<br />
21 and depart Washington,<br />
D.C., that evening at<br />
8 p.m., returning to Deerfield<br />
Sunday morning. The<br />
cost to travel was $220,<br />
and all spots on the bus<br />
have been claimed.<br />
Gash said that while<br />
Please see Tenth, 6<br />
The logo for the Women’s March on Washington,<br />
which will take place Jan. 21 in Washington, D.C. Image<br />
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