MARBLEHEAD — Instead of tuning into President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday night, the League of Women Voters of Marblehead (LWVM) held a candlelight procession at 8 p.m. to come together “at a time when democracy is under threat.”
According to LWVM Steering Committee member Kathy Leonardson, about 150-200 people were in attendance. Many participated in the walk from the Old Town House to Memorial Park, where there was then a program with a handful of speakers, and many others went straight to Memorial Park.
“It really was supporting the principles of democracy and our institutions and really gathering to become more active and see if we can find different ways to influence what’s going on because nobody’s really doing anything to change the course of things like firing all those workers who work for the government, gutting science research, I mean I could name millions of things,” Leonardson said.
She added that the league is nonpartisan and that this was not a protest against Trump but rather a protest against the policies that are being enacted.
