About more than women

I was at the Women’s March and was inspired by the 8,000 people who came to express their concern about the recent election and its implications, by the sense that I was not alone in my grief and horror about our new president.

But I was disappointed that this was labeled a “women’s” march and that all the speeches involved women: migrant women, black and Native American women, homeless women, working women. From my perspective women are only one of the reasons we marched.

This is not just about women. It is about money in politics; it is about the environment and climate change science; it is about public lands; it is about inequality in all its forms; it is about public education; it is about working people whose unions are gone and whose wages have been stagnant for 15 years if they have jobs at all; it is about honest news and honesty in speech, and it is certainly about our precarious international situation, which is now more precarious.

I am proud of Spokane for showing up and for all the hundreds of thousands who marched around the world, but this passion is about more than one issue.

Suzanne Rivers

Spokane