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TexasTowelie

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 06:35 PM Jan 2018

Houston women march for solidarity for second year

Hundreds gathered in Houston on Saturday to march for the second year in a row for women's rights.

The second Women's March in Houston got underway at 9:30 a.m. with a walk from Buffalo Bayou Cistern on Allen Parkway to City Hall, where a rally was scheduled for 11 a.m. Mayor Sylvester Turner was scheduled to speak.

Some women wore pink hats, others carried signs that read "Make America Think Again" and "Time's Up." Before the march, Laura Moser, founder of the Daily Action, organized a rally where women voiced their concerns on issues that hadn't changed since last year.

"This is just as historic a day as last year, " Moser said to the women gathered.

Kandice Webber, of Black Lives Matter Houston, urged women to consider the plight of minority women marching around them.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/life/article/Houston-women-march-for-solidarity-for-second-year-12512154.php

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Houston women march for solidarity for second year (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2018 OP
This makes me smile Gothmog Jan 2018 #1
Chron says "hundreds"....? Susan Calvin Jan 2018 #2
Sheesh. Susan Calvin Jan 2018 #3

Susan Calvin

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2. Chron says "hundreds"....?
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:36 PM
Jan 2018

Last edited Sun Jan 21, 2018, 12:14 AM - Edit history (1)

Um, no. Several thousand just from what I could see from the ground.

Other sources report in the tens of thousands.

Chron has an agenda......? Or just bad reporting?

Susan Calvin

(1,657 posts)
3. Sheesh.
Sat Jan 20, 2018, 11:40 PM
Jan 2018

And the rally was scheduled for 10 AM, vice 11 AM.

I guess I tentatively vote for bad reporting.....

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