| PHOTO: | Our children are our future: the author's son and daughter warmed up the cold grey winter afternoon at the Lowell Women's March with their irresistible smiles and relentless joie de vivre. |
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By:
James Gachau
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Feb,07-2019 23:20:59
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Saturday January 19, 2019, marked the second anniversary of the historic Women's March, which was initiated to register opposition to Donald Trump as the "Leader of the Free World."
In Lowell, MA, a group of children, women and men met at the Ladd and Whitney Memorial to "persist" in their rejection of the policies of the 45th President of the United States. Speaker after speaker emphasized the fact that Trump is the arch enemy to the essence of this country. Lori Trahan (D-Westford), the US Representative for Massachusetts' 3rd congressional district, observed that we are in the middle of many firsts, from the first House with the highest number of women coming in as freshmen in 2018, to Hillary Clinton being the first woman to be nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.
  Every minority group was represented by the people who addressed the gathered crowd of diverse women and their family and friends. People of color, the transgendered, Jews, Africans, were all spoken for.
But for the current author, the most memorable quote was when one of the speakers, a lesbian who spoke on behalf of the LGBTQI, said that children are our future, and that we need to affirm them as the pillars of what this movement is about. This thought was echoed by Lowell's City Councilwoman, when she described how she had been painted as the black sheep of her family ever since she was a child. She reminded all present that we need to support our children unconditionally:
"If your son gravitates towards dolls," she said, "support him. And if your daughter gravitates towards footballs, love and support her."
Although January 19 was the first snow day of the year, and temperatures were in the high teens, the event to celebrate persistence against ignorance, small-mindedness, and meanness, was made warm and cheerful by all the lovely people gathered together to commemorate diversity and inclusion.
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