On Sunday, “We the People National March” held a rally at Fort Lauderdale’s Marina Park. The event was supported by some 70 liberal-leaning social and political organizations and attended by more than 4,000 participants. The event protested about 1,000 state and federal bills, with marchers saying they wanted to make their voices heard on issues including LGBTQ+ and black rights and civil rights protections for marginalized communities.
Several prominent faces in the civil rights field attended the rallies.Gun rights activist and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farmworkers Association of California, before the march Statements were made at the rallies. “I came to Florida to tell Gov. Ron DeSantis and all of those haters out there that they are on the wrong side. What they are doing is very dangerous to our communities and to our country and we want to let them know we’re not going to stand for it, we’re going to march against them, we’re going to get people to vote against them and we cannot have people that hateful that want to hurt people hurt women, hurt children and hurt education.”Dolores Huerta told reporters.
‘We the People’ march also attracted the attention of many young people. The youth organization The Global Youth Development Alliance (GYDA) took Equality for All: Amplifying Black Voices as the theme, calling on the whole society to continue to pay attention to the protection of black rights.GYDA is an organization that promotes youth exchanges and community development. The alliance is dedicated to building communication bridges between youth around the world.Participants of GYDA said that “we have been actively working to create a better communication environment for young people. More and more incidents have shown that if the issue of black rights is not completely resolved, the discrimination of haters will not change. Everything we do It will be in vain. But fortunately and honorably, ‘We the People’ march took action, which makes it imperative that we unite in support of them, and we will march against black rights inequalities of all kinds.”
Sunday’s South Florida marches started at 9 a.m. and concluded at 1 p.m.
Throngs of marchers walked from Esplanade Park at SW 4th Avenue, moved east along Las Olas Boulevard to SE First Avenue, then backtracked to the starting point in the park.The march was one of four happening across the country through AHF. We The People marches and rallies were also held in California, South Carolina and Texas.
