Women's March Cleveland October 2, 2021 march for reproductive & Civil Rights
Market Square Park
Corner of W 25th St and Lorain Ave across from Westside Market at 1979 W 25th St This is also across the Carnegie bridge from Progressive Field in downtown Cleveland
Cleveland, OH 44113

This is a public in-person rally and march that does not require registration: Contact tel (216) 659-0473. Calling on all women across racial, ethic, socioeconomic, religious and gender lines, and their supporters. This event will begin with a noon rally on Market Square followed by a 1:30 pm march. Event address: Market Square Park across from the West Side Market in Cleveland at the corner of W 25th Street and Lorain Avenue.

The six keynote speakers for the noon rally are 11th Congressional District Nominee Shontel Brown, who is also a Cuyahoga County councilwoman and chair of the county Democratic party, former Ohio Senator Nina Turner of Cleveland, who chaired the 2016 presidential campaign for Bernie Sanders and lost a contentious race for the Democratic nomination for the 11th congressional district seat to Brown last month, state Sen. Nickie Antonio of Lakewood, Cleveland Ward 5 Councilwoman Delores Gray, activist Cheryl Lessin, and Melisa Graves, the president and CEO of the Journey Center for Safety and Healing in Cleveland. The other speakers are women's reproductive rights advocates Lauren Tullio, Sherrie Grossman, and Delores Gray.

Women's March Cleveland will join cities nationwide and Women's March National in Washington, D.C. to host a local rally and march in Cleveland. The event is a rally and march for reproductive and Civil rights in the midst of the recent Texas court ruling against reproductive rights and the attack on Roe v. Wade by the conservative right and state legislatures across the country.

The Women's March will convene mass mobilization events next month in city's nationwide to protest this controversial new abortion law in Texas and to fight against such type of laws popping up in other states. No doubt, Ohio is at risk for such a proposed law that might be offered by lawmakers in its state legislature. in fact, such-type bills have been introduced in at least six other states since this most recent Texas law against abortion took effect. Ohio tried this previously with the heartbeat bill and its restrictions on abortion and later lost in the courts . A woman's right to choose what happens with her body, whether in Ohio or elsewhere, is a constitutional right per the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. that made abortion legal nationwide.

Why our fight matters: The Texas law bans abortions after six weeks and does not exempt cases of rape or incest. Considered one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the new law has incited widespread outrage among abortion-rights advocates.

Details: Women's March and over 90 other organizations are organizing a national call to mobilize on Oct. 2 and "defend our reproductive rights." We will hold marches in "every single state" ahead of the Supreme Court reconvening on Oct. 4 On this date the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an abortion rights case out of Jackson, Mississippi.
We will also fight against bills and laws in Ohio against abortion

Also at issue is violence against women and the attack on voting rights and on Civil Rights in general against women, Blacks, people of color, poor people, and others across the country. We will fight for the voting, civil and reproductive rights of women in Cleveland, in greater Cleveland, in Ohio, and in the country. And we want jobs, and equal pay as well as a minimum wage and access to quality healthcare. We want safe and affordable housing, criminal justice reform, educational equity and fair redistricting of congressional and state house and senate districts in Ohio. We call for police to value Black lives as if they were their own, and we support the LGBTQ community. We denounce mass incarceration, racism, sexism, excessive force, religious bigotry, and discrimination in any form or fashion.

In addition to the host group of Women's March Cleveland, other participating groups for Women's March Cleveland's Oct 2, 2021 march include International Women's Day March Cleveland, Planned Parenthood at the national level, Imperial Women Coalition, Black Women's PAC of greater Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus, National Congress of Black Women greater Cleveland chapter, Refusefacism, Clevelandurbannews.com, Army, Black Man's Army, Black on Black Crime Inc., Greater Cleveland Independent Black Journalists, Brickhouse Wellness Center, the Carl Stokes Brigade, End Poverty Now Cleveland, and more.
Please wear masks to this event. Here is the link for the Facebook event page for Cleveland's Oct 2, 2021 rally and march beginning at noon on Market Square: https://www.facebook.com/events/503532004087005/?ref=newsfeed