So what’s next?

This past weekend’s massive Women’s Marches across the country (and beyond) brought together supporters of diverse political agendas: Women’s reproductive rights. Climate change. Public education. Immigration. Voting and human rights. And that’s just for starters. Added together, it has been called the largest demonstration in American history.

In a nation that seems perpetually divided, getting more than a million people to rally in dozens of cities is no small feat. Even the tea party movement, which had its own Taxpayer March on Washington in 2009 and has been influential ever since, paled in comparison.

How the passion from the Women’s Marches is channeled will determine whether the marchers’ voices will have a lasting impact or become a historical footnote to the early days of the Trump administration. It’s one thing to take issue with the new president’s style and policies; focusing that passion into sustained political and social engagement is a quite another.

Read more at The Boulder Daily Camera