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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — New England Independence Campaign, Ranked Choice Boston, and Voter Choice MA hosted People’s March Boston 2025 in the Boston Common on Saturday.
This march was run by Women’s March, the same organization that held the marches on Washington for women’s rights in 2017 and 2019. Another march was held in Washington on Saturday as well.
Boston's saturday march broadened the messaging to still emphasize women’s reproductive rights, but also hone in on human rights as a whole and the struggles humankind universally experiences.
One marcher Lisa was holding a sign that pictured smeared red blood and a wire hanger, which she made when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
“I just was very angry and it’s kind of expressed…it had no words, you know?” Lisa said.
She said that she was marching for women’s rights and against what she called “the rape culture.”
“How we rape the earth, how we rape other countries,” she said. “It’s all about obsessive grasping energy that’s going to kill us all.”
Some marchers held signs that showed support for all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, and walk of life. Others held signs denouncing the incoming Trump Administration, calling it an oligarchy.
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Some dressed as handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale, and others wore pink hats, keeping the spirit of previous marches with them.
City Councilor Sharon Durkan spoke about standing together to protect those threatened with deportation.
“That you are going to stand in the gap when homeland security is at your local school, trying to deport your neighbor,” Durkan said. “I need you to put your body on the line when you need to.”
Maryrose Mazzola with Planned Parenthood asked marchers to stand their ground with Massachusetts reproductive protections.
“Reproductive freedom is a Massachusetts value, keep your bans off our bodies,” Mazzola said.
Marchers like Margie represented what this march was about: people coming together to try to make a change in humankind for the better.
“I gotta say I was here, I gotta look myself in the mirror and say ‘You’re trying!’” Margie said.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) reports.