Women's March Organizers Look Ahead to Next Steps

Emma Mayerson, Executive Director of Alliance for Girls, spoke with Jessica Flores on CBS's Channel 5/KPIX about what's next after the Women's March.

More than 100,000 thousand marched in San Francisco, 84,000 in Oakland, and 25,000 in San Jose, mirroring protest marches in Washington, DC and other cities nationwide and worldwide.

March participants are now tweeting pictures of postcards they are sending to senators with the hashtag #WhyIMarch

It's the first of what organizers are calling 10 actions in 100 days.

Alliance for Girls Executive Director Emma Mayerson, who helped organize the Oakland march, said this movement won't just go away like Occupy Wall Street did.

Mayerson said the difference is that the women's movement is rooted in existing organizations. "This didn't start on Saturday, and so we will continue to do this," she said. "We have had so much progress already and this is just one more step."

Mayerson hopes the passion on the streets she saw in Oakland translates to more support for local groups like hers.

"If every single person who marched also gave $10 to a women's and girls organization - we had 60,000 marchers - that would be $600,000."

Today, she's been seeing more donations for alliance for girls. But her organization's biggest grant comes from the federal government - dollars she's not sure will continue to flow in under a new administration.

Read the full article at CBS Bay Area.