Cape Residents Join Nationwide Women’s Marches

PROVINCETOWN – Residents on Cape Cod joined the nationwide effort yesterday to speak out about issues concerning women.

Hundreds gathered in Provincetown and Falmouth to coincide with the National Women’s March in Washington and several other cities, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles, to express concerns after the November election.

Dian Hamilton marched down Commercial Street in Provincetown and is worried about the possible policy changes pertaining to women’s health.

“We are concerned that it will go back to state’s rights on many, many issues,” Hamilton said. “And we are not always hopeful and we want the federal government to protect us all.”

Hamilton hopes the funding for Planned Parenthood will remain.

“That’s very important for women’s health,” she said. “It’s not just about abortions. It’s about breast examines. It’s about neonatal care.”

Another Provincetown protestor said their message is “we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”

“We want improvement. We don’t want Obamacare taken away. We want equal pay for equal work,” she said.

Organizers also honored the Provincetown women depicted in the “They Also Faced the Sea” art installation.

Well over 100,000 people converged on Boston Common yesterday.

Among the crowd were scores of women wearing pink, cat-eared, knit hats and others holding signs including one that said, “Love Not Hate Makes America Great.”

Democratic U.S. Sen Elizabeth Warren said demonstrators are at rallies across the country to show solidarity and send a message that they will fight for what they believe in.

More than 500,000 were believed to have turned out on the National Mall in Washington.

The massive turnout forced a change of plans. With the entire planned marching route filled with hundreds of thousands of protesters, organizers could not lead a formal march toward the White House.

Plans to march through downtown Chicago were also scrapped as crowds larger than expected gathered in the Windy City.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched to President Donald Trump’s Manhattan home.

It ended on Fifth Avenue near Trump Tower, where the president has conducted nearly all of his post-election business.

It’s also where first lady Melania Trump and the couple’s young son Barron will live until the end of the school year.

The crowd of jovial New York protesters stretched at least 15 blocks. Some avenues along the route were so clogged that demonstrators couldn’t move forward.

Protests extended past U.S. borders as gathering also occurred around the world, including in London and Paris.

The protests were planned to follow the Inauguration as Donald Trump as the 45^th President of the United States on Friday.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this article.