CLEVELAND, Ohio-Hundreds gathered for a rally and march beginning at noon at Market Square Park in the Ohio City neighbourhood on Sat. Nov. 2, 2024,  a sister march to the National Women's March, with marches in cities across the country also scheduled for that day.

Women's March Cleveland head organizer Kathy Wray Coleman said the rally and march were for reproductive and civil rights.

Speakers included elected officials, activists, and women's rights advocates.

Cleveland Councilman Kevin Conwell's Footprints band headlined the event.

Greater Cleveland activist women have been in the trenches prior to the June 24, 2022 reversal of Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court and relative to the campaign in Ohio in 2023 regarding the successful ballot Issue 1 that enshrined the right to abortion access and other reproductive rights for women in the Ohio Constitution via a constitutional amendment.

They say radical extremists now want a national abortion ban, "so the fight for reproductive justice for women continues."

Other issues addressed at the event were education, poverty, equal pay, worker's rights, immigration, and healthcare, racism, sexism, fair housing, and heinous violence against women.

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