Lakewood Women Descend on Washington D.C. for Women's March [PHOTOS, VIDEO]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Women wearing "pussy hats" took to the streets to march in cities throughout the U.S. and in many other cities all over the world on Saturday to make their voices heard regarding women's rights and to protest Donald Trump.

A more local Women's March was scheduled in Cleveland which began at Public Square, State Rep. Nickie Antonio of Lakewood was one of the scheduled speakers.

A significant number of women from Lakewood decided to make their voices heard in Washington D.C. and Patch spoke to several of them and asked them why they were marching.

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Lian Showers of Lakewood said she was going to Washington to "show the new administration, the country, and the world, that issues such as equal rights for women, minorities, and LGBTQ are priorities." She added that she didn't feel that the march would change anything immediately but she hopes that it will "spur more activism and put pressure on the government to listen to the majority."

Missy Toms of Lakewood told Patch that she was heading to Washington D.C. to march for social justice and to further the case to the new administration and Congress that America's women "will not stand by quietly and this only the beginning!"

"The march is already having an impact. Women I know who have been quiet all their lives now feel empowered to speak out."

Toms added, "Peaceful protest is part of our culture and history; it's our constitutional right. No great civil movement has ever happened without peaceful assembly: civil rights, women's rights, Stonewall, the Boston Tea Party."

Lakewood's presence was so strong in D.C., Missy said she ran into other Lakewood women she didn't expect to see.

Julia Toke of Lakewood explains why she went to the Women's March in Washington D.C.:

"So I'm headed to Washington tonight to share the love and participate in the responsibility I share with my fellow American citizens.

That responsibility is to peacefully protest to ensure the documents and laws that govern this country are maintained when they are threatened. To hold space for those that have not had a voice, to stand along side my fellow LGBT community, to prevent laws from governing the bodies of the citizens of this country, to say proudly that Black Lives Matter, First Nation Lives Matter, Women's Lives Matter, Working Poor Lives Matter, LGBT Lives Matter.

Until we are truly safe, truly equal, truly respected, I WILL RISE.
I WILL MARCH.

For my children, for your children to preserve this great democracy.

LOVE WINS. UNITED WE STAND."

Julia Toke captured the video below of the marchers chanting "We will not go away, welcome to your first day!"

Photos courtesy of Missy Toms, Lian Showers, Julia Toke, Brynna Uldricks