The 2017 Women's March on Washington | NOT DONE: Women Remaking America
NOT DONE: Women Remaking America premieres on October 27th at 8PM ET/7PM CT on PBS. In 2017, millions of women around the world took to the streets and made their voices heard. Watch as these women recount how one unifying march paved the way for the future of feminism and how this revolutionary tidal wave continues to move the needle of equality forward today.
Video Transcript
- This is the upside of the downside.
- We thought a quarter million people were gonna come, and about 1.2 million people came to the point that we weren't really able to march because we pretty much shut down the entire Capitol Hill area. It was the largest single-day demonstration in American history.
It was in cities across the United States and around the world. It was in Antarctica.
- And it happened in some of the small- and medium-sized towns in this country, not the so-called coastal elite enclaves.
- I see this as a moment of taking feminism back, making feminism a project that all of us can share.
PATRISSE CULLORS: Has it been perfect? No. No movement is perfect. It can't be. But the promise was an intersectional movement.
- The one thing that's too bad about the Women's March is that it's read as being a reaction to Trump-- which, by many means, sure it was. It was born on election night and all of that. But one of the reasons it's so important that the co-chairs of the Women's March came from different movements is because they knew what was already bubbling-- movements around indigenous rights, environmental justice, immigration reform, mass incarceration, gun violence-- all of which are, of course, women's issues. And it's in the Obama administration that you see the development of Black Lives Matter.
- Hands up, don't shoot!
- And that is a movement that is founded by queer Black women in response to systemic racial violence.
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