The Women's March on Washington and hundreds of sister marches across the country on Saturday, Jan, 21, the day after President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, could bring an aggregate total of 1 million women and activists together around women's and human rights issues they fear will be set back by the Trump administration.The local marches and related events are taking place in a dozen Michigan cities, including in Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Grosse Pointe and Brighton.

When the national march was announced in November, organizers said in an official statement that the "rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us — women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault."

The march is intended to "send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights," according to the press release. "We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us."

