THE 2019 WOMEN’S MARCH ON ROANOKE: RALLY IN ROANOKE, RESULTS IN RICHMOND
The Roanoke Women’s March is a non-partisan, women-led movement organized by Roanoke Indivisible and the Blue Ridge Resistance Alliance of Virginia (BRRAVA) providing intersectional education on issues with disproportionate impact on women and their families in Southwest Virginia. When we march, we gather to rally, build our community and our power. When we raise our voices in Roanoke, in Richmond, and in Washington, D.C., we demand, create, and promote solutions for Virginia women and their families and communities. The Roanoke Women’s March builds the political power of women and their diverse communities to create transformative social change and encourage everyone’s participation in our elections and civic life.
In 2018 we marched under the banner of “Hear our Vote.” We marched, we worked, we voted, and we won as women entered our nation’s public life in unprecedented numbers. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March builds on this success and will educate, empower, and energize us to take our voice and our power to Richmond to hold our state legislators accountable to our core values: equity, justice, democratic governance, and safeguarding our environment and climate future. In 2019, Virginia has a historic opportunity to advance women’s rights nationwide by becoming the final state needed to ratify the ERA Amendment. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March will focus on ratifying the ERA, encouraging women to enter public life, and rallying us to become effective and forceful advocates in Richmond for the issues that matter to us.
The Roanoke Women’s March is a platform for grassroots activists and organizers in the Roanoke Valley and Southwest Virginia working to dismantle systems of oppression in their local communities. We recognize and affirm that there is no true peace, freedom, or inclusion without equality for all. Our March therefore celebrates and promotes the many voices of resistance aligned with our principles -- including ending violence, fighting for climate and environmental justice, and fighting for full civil rights and social justice for women and for other groups historically marginalized in our communities because of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender identity; their class, economic, family, or immigration status; or their disability or physical condition.
JOIN US! See you on January 19, 2019 at Elmwood Park
as we RALLY IN ROANOKE FOR RESULTS IN RICHMOND
The Roanoke Women’s March is a non-partisan, women-led movement organized by Roanoke Indivisible and the Blue Ridge Resistance Alliance of Virginia (BRRAVA) providing intersectional education on issues with disproportionate impact on women and their families in Southwest Virginia. When we march, we gather to rally, build our community and our power. When we raise our voices in Roanoke, in Richmond, and in Washington, D.C., we demand, create, and promote solutions for Virginia women and their families and communities. The Roanoke Women’s March builds the political power of women and their diverse communities to create transformative social change and encourage everyone’s participation in our elections and civic life.
In 2018 we marched under the banner of “Hear our Vote.” We marched, we worked, we voted, and we won as women entered our nation’s public life in unprecedented numbers. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March builds on this success and will educate, empower, and energize us to take our voice and our power to Richmond to hold our state legislators accountable to our core values: equity, justice, democratic governance, and safeguarding our environment and climate future. In 2019, Virginia has a historic opportunity to advance women’s rights nationwide by becoming the final state needed to ratify the ERA Amendment. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March will focus on ratifying the ERA, encouraging women to enter public life, and rallying us to become effective and forceful advocates in Richmond for the issues that matter to us.
The Roanoke Women’s March is a platform for grassroots activists and organizers in the Roanoke Valley and Southwest Virginia working to dismantle systems of oppression in their local communities. We recognize and affirm that there is no true peace, freedom, or inclusion without equality for all. Our March therefore celebrates and promotes the many voices of resistance aligned with our principles -- including ending violence, fighting for climate and environmental justice, and fighting for full civil rights and social justice for women and for other groups historically marginalized in our communities because of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender identity; their class, economic, family, or immigration status; or their disability or physical condition.
JOIN US! See you on January 19, 2019 at Elmwood Park
as we RALLY IN ROANOKE FOR RESULTS IN RICHMOND
Statement on the National Women's March
The Women’s March on Roanoke organizers are saddened and angered that the National Team Co-Chairs of the Women’s March, Inc, have repeatedly failed to forcefully denounce anti-Semitism. For this reason, we understand the need to clarify our relationship with the Women’s March, Inc. While the Roanoke March was organized by local women in 2017 as a sister march to the National Women’s March in Washington DC, the Women’s March on Roanoke is not affiliated with the national Women’s March, Inc. For the past two years, the Women’s March on Roanoke has been organized by the women in the leadership team of BRRAVA, (the Blue Ridge Resistance Alliance of Virginia) and Roanoke Indivisible, and has focused on amplifying the power and voice of women in Southwest Virginia, and on highlighting the local and regional issues that most matter to us, including ERA ratification, pipeline resistance and climate justice, and progressive advocacy in Richmond.
We invite you to read the Women’s March on Roanoke Mission to learn more about our values, our mission, and our dreams for the future for which we march, and for which we fight. A central tenet is the intersectional reality of women’s lives and the certainty that any discrimination or hate grounded in religion is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Roanoke Valley was targeted this year with anti-semitic leaflets found at area colleges, and the year before with KKK rallies targeting our Muslim neighbors. We stand, we march, we fight, for both — for all— targeted religious communities.
Join us on January 19, 2019, as we Rally in Roanoke for Results in Richmond.
We invite you to read the Women’s March on Roanoke Mission to learn more about our values, our mission, and our dreams for the future for which we march, and for which we fight. A central tenet is the intersectional reality of women’s lives and the certainty that any discrimination or hate grounded in religion is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Roanoke Valley was targeted this year with anti-semitic leaflets found at area colleges, and the year before with KKK rallies targeting our Muslim neighbors. We stand, we march, we fight, for both — for all— targeted religious communities.
Join us on January 19, 2019, as we Rally in Roanoke for Results in Richmond.