A year after thousands of Connecticut marchers took to the streets wearing pink hats and carrying homemade signs of resistance in the first Women’s March in Hartford, residents returned Saturday to again issue calls for action — this time to empower women at the ballot box.
Women’s March in Hartford
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The protests in pictures: Marching in CT and the nation’s capital
A look at the protests in Washington, D.C., Hartford and Stamford that drew thousands of Connecticut marchers.
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Hartford rally draws 10,000: ‘Complacency is over’
Sharlene Kerelejza was awestruck when she looked out at the crowd gathering Saturday outside the north steps of the State Capitol in Hartford, a throng that Capitol police say reached 10,000. Kerelejza, the chief organizer of the Women’s March in Hartford, who had seen interest in the rally grow on Facebook in recent days, said what she saw meant one thing: “Hope.”
