At last January's Women's March on New Jersey, civil rights activist Edith Savage-Jennings spoke before 7,500 people who showed up for the local rally at the Statehouse in Trenton.

"I beg and implore you," Savage-Jennings told the fired up crowd, "do not let this be your last march."

For many marchers, it won't be their last women's rally. The organizers of the Women's March on New Jersey say they are planning an encore event Jan. 20 in Morristown.

Women's March on New Jersey 2018 will be one of dozens of marches across the country that will try to continue the momentum and spirit of the massive 2017 Women's March on Washington, D.C., and its sister marches. The grass roots movement, which began after the election of Donald Trump, was designed to send the new president a message about women's rights and other issues on the eve of his inauguration.

Many organizers are hoping to make the marches an annual event.

"This time we'll go beyond our state capital to amplify our voices to the people across New Jersey. We seek to encourage them to use their power to vote instead of relying on the elected officials we have," Elizabeth Meyer, an activist from Branchburg who founded last year's Women's March on New Jersey, said in her announcement of the 2018 march.

The Jan. 20 march will begin at 11 a.m. at Morristown Town Hall on South Street, then continue to Morristown Green, where a series of speakers will address the crowd, organizers said. The event is expected to last three hours.

Meyer said organizers have secured the permits for the march and are working with police and parking authorities on the logistics. No tickets are needed to attend, though marchers are asked to register to help get a headcount for planning purposes.

Morristown was chosen to host the event because it is home to several grassroots organizations and has open space to hold what is expected to be a large crowd.

The town, with its Revolutionary War history, also fits the march's motto "Power to the Polls," a focus on getting people to the polls for November's mid-term elections.

"We will be marching (and freezing) in the footsteps of revolutionaries that have come before us. What better grounds for women and allies to gather who are staging a revolution of our own?," Meyer said.

By some estimates, the 2017 Women's March movement was the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history, with between 3 million and 5 million people participating in more than 600 marches and events nationwide.

New Jersey sent at least 300 charter buses to the Women's March on Washington, where an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people marched.

In addition to the 7,500 people who showed up at the Women's March on New Jersey in Trenton in January, several thousand marchers participated in a similar event in Asbury Park. Other Women's Marches were held in Mount Laurel, Pompton Plains, Westfield and Wyckoff.

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