London will be represented when thousands of women from across Canada and the U.S. march on Washington, D.C. the day after president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
Megan Walker will be among several London women to take a bus from the city to the Women’s March on Washington event on Saturday.
"I followed what was happening with the US election and was particularly upset by some of the behaviours exhibited by president-elect Donald Trump and I've always felt when you see an injustice it is important to take action," said Walker. "For me this is an opportunity to take action and march with anywhere from 400,000 to 1-million other women in solidarity towards human rights and human equality rights for women."
Walker, the director of the London Abused Women's Centre, will not be going to the march in an official capacity but rather as a private, concerned citizen.
"What I have seen from this president-elect is, unless you are a white man of some privilege, he seems to want to take your rights away," said Walker.
The Women’s March on Washington began as a grassroots effort the day after the 2016 presidential election, when a grandmother in Hawaii proposed to 40 of her friends to march in Washington. The purpose of the march is to remind the new administration on its first day in office of the importance of women's rights, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Nearly 400 sister marches are being held around the world for those unable to attend the one in Washington. In London, a solidarity march will be held in Victoria Park at 10am on Saturday.
"I think it is going to be really powerful, I'm really excited. It is going to be historic," said Walker.