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WNY Women’s March 2025

May 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

WNY Women’s March 2025!

May 17th at 2pm in Lafayette Square


With respect and reverence for those who’ve struggled so hard and so courageously—
With deep grief for those who have been murdered—
And with unwavering determination to bring our community together in the fight for equality, dignity, and justice for all—
We will gather. We will march.
In solemn unity and resolute hope.

Her rights are human rights.

Come march with us. Your voice matters.

Your presence matters.

Our Mission Statement

Women’s rights are human rights. It’s outrageous that in 2025 we still struggle for our rights, including control over our own bodies. We rally and march for equity and equality for women and all oppressed people. By working for structural and systemic change, together we seek to guarantee women’s rights to health, safety, and freedom from violence. With special care for the dignity and humanity of marginalized identities, we believe that women, and all people, deserve an equal place in the movement and in society. We are committed to justice for all people(s) and the planet.

The Plan

  • Leave about 2:20-ish to go
    • (northeast) on Broadway past
      •  WUFO (Black-owned, woman-owned) Radio Station
      • the Colored Musicians’ Club
  • (south) down Michigan African American Heritage Corridor, past
    • Michigan Avenue Baptist Church
      • the Nash House
  • then headed west on Clinton to the Central Public Library’s (CPL’s) auditorium.
  • Parking is free on weekends!

Program

Opening in Lafayette Square

Emcee: Victory Ross

Land & Enslaved Peoples Acknowledgment, followed by Silence (Victory)

Ebony White (poem)

Good Medicine Singers, Haudenosaunee (march & auditorium)

During the Actual March

Darelyn Spruce, Onondawaga, drumming during March

Singing and positive chants during march

In Auditorium- Main Program (Will also be livestreamed)

Emcees: Ann Converso, CWA 1168; Franchelle Parker, Executive Director, Open Buffalo

Serless Adams & Verneice Turner, Phenomenal Ladies of Rhythm (drumming/singing)

Rachel Henderson, Michigan St Baptist Church

Vonetta Rhodes, “You, Her, Us: The Government is in My Uterus”

Meredith Ouderkirk, Planned Parenthood WNY

Vivian Waltz, WNYPC

Fragrance Of Yah, Fragrance of Yah Records LLC

India Walton, RootsAction

Diana Lynn Patton, Defense of Democracy

Clara Eldridge (singing Spark of Creation, about Eve)

Buffalo Myanmar Association of Youth speaker

Lori Robinson, League of Women Voters

Pat Bozeman (Singing)

Milo Lister, Ain’t I a Woman? campaign

Good Medicine Singers – will be closing out the main program

Ring of Knowledge – Live Art Demo with Participation

Emcee:  Meg Gerrity, Justice For Migrant Families

When Auditorium is FULL, these are options:

Library 2nd Floor – Buffalo Public Schools Art Exhibit
Some of the artists may be there to talk about their work

Back in Lafayette Square

Speakers & Open Mic

Cosponsors

1199 SEIU
ALF – Area Labor Federation, WNY
Ain’t I A Woman?
Buffalo Latino Village
Buffalo United (comprised of >35 groups)
Burning Books
CWA 1168
Dyke Nyte Buffalo
Horizons Health
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (DC #4)
Indigenous Women’s Initiative
League of Women Voters
Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor
Open Buffalo
Power to the People
Reconnecter
Riverside Salem UCC/DC
RootsAction
StandUp WNY
Veterans For Peace #128
Voice Buffalo
We Are Women Warriors
WNY Election Protection
WNY Peace Center

Details

Date:
May 17
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Venue

Lafayette Square
Buffalo, N, + Google Map