Las Vegas activists want to sustain the energy of January’s Women’s March against President Donald Trump with ongoing educational forums and protests, starting this week.
Set to coincide with International Women’s Day, a Wednesday evening teach-in and panel discussion at the Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas aims to spark “resistance and resilience,” according to organizers.
“This is building upon a very strong and long historic legacy of resistance that has been going on for generations” among women and those in marginalized communities, said Leilani Clark, a Las Vegas workers’ rights advocate.
This week’s event and a protest march tentatively set for May 20 seek to capitalize on the success of the Women’s March, which brought many people into the streets for the first time.
“I interviewed one lady for the archive team. This was her first protest ever in her life and she was 77 years old, and she felt she needed in her heart she needed to come out,” said Yesenia Moya, a UNLV student who herself was new to activism until helping organize the Jan. 21 Women’s March.
Wednesday’s forum, Systems Of Oppression: Hxrstory Of Resistance And Resilience, is set for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Pearson Community Center, 1625 W. Carey Ave.
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The event is being put on by Womxn Of Color March.
Yesenia Moya, UNLV student new to activism; Leilani Clark, workers’ rights advocate; Erika Washington, Nevada director of the Make it Work campaign