HOW TO HELP

Donate to a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign — www.gofundme.com/womensmarch2018santafe — to help cover some of the costs of the 2018 Santa Fe Women’s March.

thousands and thousands of people out to resist,” Cain said.

“People are asking, ‘Why are we marching?’ So, I pondered this a lot last night,” she added.

Cain read what she had written in answer to that question: “We’re marching for women, our bodies, our rights. We’re marching for men, children, immigrants, the poor, the Dreamers, the disenfranchised. Mother Earth. Human, nonhuman animals. We’re marching for you, for me, for all of us. … We must show up, stand up, speak up. We must resist the tyranny of the Trump regime.”

Marcos Lovato, founder of EverWonderMedia, this week will pose the question, “Why are you marching?” to other prospective demonstrators and collect their thoughts in a video project that will be posted on the group’s Facebook page before the march. At 2 p.m. Monday, Lovato will be at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Road, inviting members of the public to come in and share their thoughts.

The Women’s March anniversary has inspired other events in the state next weekend. Marches are planned Sunday in Las Cruces, Albuquerque and Truth or Consequences. On Saturday in Española, New Mexico Women in Film will host a screening of a public service announcement about Native American women, as well as short films centered on women, the environment and Native issues.

A new two-day festival of women’s plays will be held in Santa Fe, featuring the works of six local female playwrights.

Talia Pura, one of the playwrights and the new director of the Black Box Theater at the Studio Center of Santa Fe — formerly Warehouse 21 — said the festival is the first of what she hopes will become an annual theater event celebrating both the Women’s March anniversary and International Women’s Voices Day, also Jan. 21.

For McDonald, one big takeaway from the upcoming weekend is that women’s voices are vital. She hopes it will prompt “a wave of women realizing they can run for office.”

“Love, love, love,” she added. “Spread the love.”

Cain, a harder edge in her voice, said: “It brings us out of our complacency. … We cannot be comfortably numb. Our democracy is truly under siege.”

Asked how they will measure the success of their nearly lastminute event against last year’s march, the women just smiled.

Together, they said, “It’s already a success.”