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Headed to the march

Local contingent to join in DC Women’s March

AP Photo Participants hold signs as they gather near the Ohio Statehouse steps during the Ohio Sister March on Washington in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday. A similar march will take place in Washington , D.C. Saturday and 51 locals will be in attendance.

Thousands of women from all over the country, including a segment from Chautauqua County, are participating in the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in the wake of the inauguration of now-President Donald Trump.

Fredonian Angela Pucciarelli, Jamestown Community College’s assistant director of athletics and compliance, along with a few others, have taken it upon themselves to rally  a total of 51 locals to take a bus to Washington D.C. on Saturday for the fight for what they believe is right.

According to the Women’s March website, “In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.”

Pucciarelli says that in her field of work, being a female working in a male-driven environment — athletics — can be overwhelming in a sense that she can sometimes feel outnumbered. This, combined with the President-elect’s projected disdain toward several groups, women included, inspired Pucciarelli to show her support for women’s rights and her lack of support for the messages Trump seems to constantly send out.

“At times I feel a little bit outnumbered, and once I heard about this opportunity to kind of stand up for something that meant so much to me and show my support for something that I’m so passionate about,  and then once I found out there were other women at JCC from different generations, different backgrounds, it just seemed like a no-brainer, and it was very important to us that we kind of demonstrate and move toward something and show our support for something that we all really believed in,” Pucciarelli said.

Thousands of women from all over the country, including a segment from Chautauqua County, are participating in the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday in the wake of the inauguration of now-President Donald Trump.

Fredonian Angela Pucciarelli, Jamestown Community College’s assistant director of athletics and compliance, along with a few others, have taken it upon themselves to rally  a total of 51 locals to take a bus to Washington D.C. on Saturday for the fight for what they believe is right.

According to the Women’s March website, “In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.”

Pucciarelli says that in her field of work, being a female working in a male-driven environment — athletics — can be overwhelming in a sense that she can sometimes feel outnumbered. This, combined with the President-elect’s projected disdain toward several groups, women included, inspired Pucciarelli to show her support for women’s rights and her lack of support for the messages Trump seems to constantly send out.

“At times I feel a little bit outnumbered, and once I heard about this opportunity to kind of stand up for something that meant so much to me and show my support for something that I’m so passionate about,  and then once I found out there were other women at JCC from different generations, different backgrounds, it just seemed like a no-brainer, and it was very important to us that we kind of demonstrate and move toward something and show our support for something that we all really believed in,” Pucciarelli said.

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