EDITORIAL
Vol. 127, No. 75 Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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March Leader Jaelyn Coates and CSU President Tony Frank lead the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr march down College Avenue. Directly behind President Frank is Susan Holmes, who addressed the crowd during the opening comments about her son’s death by campus police. PHOTO BY JULIA TROWBRIDGE COLLEGIAN
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Members of Fort Collins gathered to “Rise Up and Take Action” against the inequalities that still persist within the United States. Around 800 citizens from all around Fort Collins marched through Old Town on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ended with a rally in the Colorado State University Lory Student Center.
Members of the community ranged from a large cluster of students from Poudre High School who volunteered to march at the event, to CSU students and faculty to military veterans looking to support the cause. During a congregation period prior to the march, citizens shared words with each other and some spoke about what they thought the cause of this year’s event was. One of those citizens was CSU senior Lena Ham.
“People are realizing that there are still issues in the world that we ignore, and [those issues] are still relevant and affecting people all over,” Ham said. The event kicked-off in Old Town Square, where a speech by the march leader, Jaelyn Coates, touched on inequalities that are still prevalent across the country. Coates dissected the meaning of a quote from civil rights activist Angela Davis. “It was Angela Davis who
said that you have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time” Coates said. “And, now I ask you... what does it mean to be radical?” Coates gave time for reflection on the true meaning of Davis’ words. Coates also spoke about how something as simple as water access is not free and equal to all across the nation, giving examples of the disparity of living conditions amongst
Americans lumped into different classes. “Perhaps right now, there are many of us who could walk into any of these stores lining the streets of Old Town... and get a drink of water,” Coates said. “But at this very moment there are also folks in Flint, Michigan and in Appalachia and in the Bayous of Louisiana who have been without [clean water] for years.” A few minutes into the see MLK on page 4 >>