Hosting marches. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. And im a proud member of the womens march executive board. Founding members of nization. S someone who started organizing the first womens arch the day after trump was elected in good afternoon and welcome, everyone. My name is mrinalini chakraborty, and im a proud member of the womens march executive board, and one of the founding members of the womens march national organization. As someone who started organizing the first womens march the day after trump was elected in 2016, and helped build this organization over the last three years, it feels surreal and powerful, to be here, in our fourth year marching on washington. The sleepless nights were worth it because i knew i was part of a team that was about to make history. The struggle to build a Transformative Movement is worth it every day, because this movement, this resistance, has inspired millions of people across the globe to step up into their power and organize for change and liberation. For chan and liberation. Fact that were still here coming together once more in a beautiful show of collective ower tells me that the hard work and commitment of our hundreds of and organizers across the country is and more relevant than ever. This year, the march was a demand for e in the impeachment which is one of the biggest progressive victories that weve won. Womens march that ive organized since that very first has carried a magic that can takebe fully felt when you the time to pause. Look around and realize youre rare gathering of our grant mothers, high choolers and other youth, seasoned organizers, first time call the women who big city home. Women who call the snowfall country home, women who find in more than one nation. Today were all here together standing against attack on oure bodies, communities and our planet. Im proud to be standing here gain four years later with hese bold and visionary leaders, sharing ideas, making plans for 2020 and well beyond and, of course, marching 2020 womens e march. With that i would like to elcome you all and introduce our first speaker, rachel womens who is the officer. Chief operating thank you all for cupping today. Its a beautiful day. Rachelle ear Larry Carmona and the chief operating officer for the womens march. Than 20 hours away from the 2020 womens march but this one is very different. Over the past week weve been hosting a number of actions and activities, to develop and unite fans across movements. Taking a deep dive into the issues that our base cares about. Weve surveyed our base three and over the last year come up with the same three things. Were invested and engaged in orking around reproductive health, rights and justice. Around climate, and immigration. Invited over the course of this week feminist experts and leaders in this movement to come together, to lift up some of these issues, which are some of pertinent of our time. Its year four an youve covered long time so i think its no secret to anyone here that trump and his dministration are bent on isle listing us. If it were up to him, there would be no womens march. Hes attacked women on every front imaginable, and thats why this march is the most important the last one the 25020 election. Since crump came to office 900 Centers Across the country serving women of color slashed research drastically and this last year, chemicals on pregnant women was cut. Its hard to go through a single just one, without seeing the ways in which mmigrant mothers, migrants and refugees, and even 10yearold girls lose their lives in ice custody. March is more crucial than ever, because lives depend on our persistence to dignity and our resistance to those who would disappear. Us we wont allow anything to divide us or distract us from trump he women that make president. Thank you. Next were going to hear from castillo, c. E. O. Of ywca. Thank you. Good afternoon. Ywca usa. E. O. Of at ywca our mission is to liminate vachs and empower women. Every day, we get up and do the ork of justice for girls, women, and people of color in more than a thousand communities across this great nation. To women ousing seeking a safe place to live. We provide child air for working parents. We offer job training to women building their careers and stem girls, exploring the future. Our communities demand justice thousand different ways and every day, every single day, we and we do the work. Moment, wee ical broad to stand on the front, with so many other groups ommitted to change, for more han 162 years, weve advocated andequal pay, Voting Rights many other issues that impact tomorrow, girls, and we will march to raise the women. E voices of we will rise to demand that the nations leaders take action on that have brought us together this year. Reproductive rights and climate. Not here to talk about politics or candidates but were here to lift the voices of women the critical issues. We know from work in our communities that weaver women are that united. That these issues matter for people of color and communities across the country. No matter where you live, the of your skin, how old we even our political party, women share deep concerns about the future of our families and and our voices matter. Women are the key of the future the ywca will continue to do the work of justice. Structures e power that determine our future. Ecause we envision world of opportunity, where we demand equity. The work until the world sees women the way we do. Powerful, unstoppable. Next were going to hear Deputy Director of a womans march board member. Hello, d. C. And im the Deputy Director and a member of the march executive board. Organizer in ong transand immigrant rights movement. Findtransactivist, i often myself pushed to the margins. Those margins of our society. Despite knowing that many people in power in this country would see me and the up unitys disappear i wake every morning ready to fight for not because i know i am and i know s fightened i we can win. Everyone has been asking who can beat trump . I stan here today to say the answer is simple. Can you,t trump and so but only if we fight him and his cronies together, and only if we continue to make space for those invisible. O make continuing trump by the organizing work in the forscommunity, and fighting Climate Justice and reproductive justice. We will beat trump if we to remind one another that we have more in common in a different of nationality than we have in common with the men in power who to divide us. The most important thing that womens march showed us was the power we truly space ed when we opened to include the many. Womens march has knitted the movement of werful people who share a common elief, that freedom is for everyone, with no exception. 2020, were going all into the fight for our future. Doing thisforward to of you, thank ll you ch you. Next we have kelly robinson, director of planned Parenthood Action Fund and also womens march board member. Thank you. May be chilly today but its movement is on fire. Good afternoon, yall. Im kelly robinson, the of planned rector Parenthood Action Fund and a proud member of the womens directors. D of right now, in the year 2020, we, womens march, more than ever, our rights and our bodies are under attack like never before. Trumppence administration and their allies are doubling own on their attacks, from dismantling the nations title 10 program for affordable birth title , to weakening the 9 protections for survivors, in alone, they passed 25 bans on Abortion States passed 25 babs on abortion and this year the Supreme Court is hearing for the First Time Since gorsuch and kavanaugh is on the court. Us. Are coming for on top of our right to vote, on free our right to live from the threat of gun violence, on top of our right to keep our Families Together and our right breathe clean air and drink clean water, and you know who by all of this . Its women. Color. Omen of lgbtq people. Lower incomes. Its all the people that need to in power and are taking become power this saturday. But every step of the way, every tep of the way this administration has been confronted with our fierce of stance and the strength this movement. The womens march isnt just a day where we cull together and take action, womens march has a symbol for our collective resistance to the amaging and discriminatory policies of this Administration Allies nationwide. Work. We march we get to political organizations will run our largest ever electoral cycle, and ie 2020 know our allies across the country are gearing up, too. The power of supporters, through the power of grassroots omentum, well work to take back the senate. Well work to take back the United States white house, well take back the state legislatures across the country nd defeat harmful ballot measures anywhere that they show up, because this is our movement. Slowing down. And planned parenthood action stand proud to shouldertoshoulder with people across the country and mobilize at the womens march for equity and justice for all people. This movement is bigger than one march. Its bigger than any single person, and we cannot and we fight. T rest in this were fighting to take back our rights. Were fighting to take back our healthcare. Fighting to take back our future, and were fighting to take back our joy, and when we know that thiswe nstoppable force. Thank you. Wow from re going to hear good afternoon, my name is of the womens march vancouver board of directors. Just before coming to this press sisters and i, i and my sisters behind me were at 100 vening of nearly feminist leader fighting for communities across the country. Has been mission dedicated to encouraging communities, to engage one intersections of our work so it makes me proud to hopeful and be part of a team of women and friend who is are creating the for us the to do just that. This when this administration runnered in, it was clear we had a fight ahead of us, but for a ers, the challenge of trumppence white house, challenge that this white house posed felt uncomfortably familiar. Women of color, who are already getting paid less than heir white counterparts, we knew that our work days were harder. Get longer and differently abled communities who saw themselves being mocked saw tional television also the faces of their bullies in the commanderinchief. What is so different was the energy of the millions who came out on trumps Inauguration Day to say that were not going to take it. We came out again in 2018, and here in 2019, and were again in 2020. We have a new fight ahead of us ready to confront it with renewed energy. Administration would have us n immigrant from guatemala, and a suburban white woman that all of us have in common with each other. Popular narratives and quick bait headlines would have us thinking that a movement of millions was only a moment, but people refer to as a moment is a movement that a surge of progressive women to run for office and win. Hat some people call a moment is the movement that inspired fight girls to lead the to save our planet. What some people call a moment impeached aent that he wasnt, who swore that above the law. Administration and the people who play were not afraid of them. The taxes of division are not going to work on us. Wont stand for it. My sisters administration and a ont stand for it, and our wont stand for it. We are ready to fight trump and trumpism. Were going to do it together, because thats how we win, and our going to fight for freedom because thats our birth beings. Human thank you so much. Finally, were going to hear chilean collective who wrote the feminist anthem, a your path thats taken the world by storm. [speaking in spanish] hello, were a collective from chile. Excited to be here and womens ating in the march and with the lgbtq people. [speaking in spanish] of taking consists feminist theory and turning it into practice and taking turning it ory and into performance, and thus using in the es as a weapon struggle, and we want to spread hopefully ation and together lead to change thats concrete and real. [speaking in spanish] case, fundamentally, use e struggle, we want to our bodies in art, as an instrument to combat neoliberalism, and patriarchty, a country ntry is thats run by business people, by big business just like here, that thats another way were united in this fight and economic es system that harms women and so were here to do that with all the communities here. To very important thing say. Art,eate from the love for this all the people in my city passion, not the waiting to receive money. Thats the difference with us, our you right now is that art is social because were living in a country you have that the way that were creating now is a powerful because we tance come from a city, all the things very violent for people feel created, thats the reason that this movement is so important for all, because we do it with passion. Very important that you know. Thank you, everyone, for being here. We can take a few questions. Do you want to take that . As of today we have about 26,000 people rsvpd, but as you for a protest isnt the most common thing so well see. We do. I think k we have 80 buses around 70 to coming in. Take a couple more questions. One can control the weather and were always a ittle concerned on january 18, 1920, is when our marches have been, were hoping for the best from our mmunication marchers is that they are coming rain or shine. More. One yeah. Controversy controversy [inaudible] eral organizers [inaudible] were not having speakthers year and were marching with the marchers because we feel like the energy is with the movement. Its not about listening to talk. Its about exercising your own power and your own agency and right to the doors white house. Thats it. Well have some instructions there and then we step off right afterwards. At 11 00. Well see you all there. Thanks, everybody. Thanks. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, rachel oleary, chief operating officer of the 2020 womens march discusses the march and the role of women voters in 2020. Aways founder talks about the movement to persuade democrats to leave their party. Then, a discussion on recent developments of russia and ukraine and how they impact the u. S. Watch cspans washington journal, live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. This body, this chamber precisely,isely, madam president , so we can look past the daily dramas and understand how our actions will generations, so that we can put aside animal reflexes and animosities and coolly consider how to best serve our country in the long we can break factional fevers before they jeopardize the core institutions of our government. It, all of aut sudden, with confidence in and of its own situation, can anderve un awede the impartiality between individual accused and a representative of the people, his accusers. The houses hour is over. The senates time is at hand. It is time for this body to honor our founding purpose. Here is what Alexander Hamilton warned of. He said the greatest danger is that a decision in an impeachment trial will be regulated more by the comparative strength of the parties them by the real demonstration of innocent or dealt. Guilt. In theer hamilton, even day before Political Parties were a strong as today, wanted us to come together. The leader wants to do things on his own without any democratic input, but fortunately, we have the right to demand votes and to work hard as we can for a fair trial. A full trial, a trial with witnesses, the trial with documents. The founders anticipated that impeachment trials would always be buffeted by the wind of politics, but they gave the power to the senate anyway, for they believed the chamber was the only place where impartial justice of the president could truly be shot. Be sought. In the coming days, these important coming days, each of us will face a choice about whether to begin this trial in search of the truth, or in the service of the president s desire to cover up and rush things through. The third time in history, a president is on trial in the u. S. Senate. Watch live tuesday when the trial resumes at 1 00 eastern on cspan two. Were asking students to tell us the issue they want the president ial candidates to address. With the january deadline approaching students from across the country are putting the final touches on their entries. Were awarding 100,000 in total cash prizes. For more information go to student cam. Org. Next a forium of National Security and counter terrorism. First we hear from the f. B. I. Followed by assistant attorney general