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The message the women’s march has for politicians in Washington D.C. is simple:Women’s rights are human rights, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status,sexual orientation, economics, age or disability.

Jake Grineil thinks that resonates with everyone regardless of gender.“As it’s one thing to have a difference in opinion, it’s a different thing to have a completely different view of democracy.Cause it’s totalitarianism, it isn’t democracy that got elected, and I’m gonna stand up to do that.”

Mignila’s part of a northern Indiana grassroots organization that formed after the election,one of dozens of groups that spring up independently across the country and spread their social media.They recognized that although diverse groups might be too small to accomplish anything on their own.United, their numbers would be too great for the new President and other politicians to ignore.

Sarah Young who plans to march in D.C. says her key concern is women’s health care.“Access to birth control and access to women’s health care has done more for women’s empowerment in the twentieth century than anything else in moving into the twenty-first.And so if we gonna keep those gains, we need to keep access to health care.”

Other issues motivating the praticipants are ending violence against women,environmental justice and protecting the rights of workers, people with disablities, immigrants and the LBGT cure community.

While Lou Ann Homan won’t be among the hundreds of thousands of protesters traveling to Washington,she says she will make her voice heard closer to home.“There are pockets of marches all over the country, in every town and every big city.And for us, we will be going, a group of us, a large group to Fort Wayne to show solidarity, to show that we care.”

At last count, more than six hundred simultaneous rallies are scheduled around the world on Saturday.The group hopes that many new networks will be formed, which will create better lives for everyone.They believe that peace can’t exist until everyone is equal.

For VOA News, Erika Celeste in Angola, Indiana.