The latest numbers on the Facebook page of the Women’s March in Denver this Saturday now show 36,000 people have signed up so far – up about 5,000 since our report just two days ago.

And that’s without the estimated 2,000 Coloradans who have opted instead to go to the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. – the event that inspired the Denver march and similar events being held in hundreds of cities around the globe.

We spoke to Wendy DiLivio, a retired psychologist who says she’s one of four main organizers of the Colorado contingent to the nation’s capital. She said they have received a lot of support from Colorado’s Washington delegation. Sen. Michael Bennet met with some of them on Thursday; Rep. Diana Degette plans to march with them, and Rep. Jared Polis has offered to host a reception after the march.

DiLivio says the organizers have also reached out to Sen. Cory Gardner for a meeting in Washington, but his office has not responded to their requests.

It’s not just women participating in the rally for women’s rights that’s expected to draw anywhere between 200,000 and 1 million people to the National Mall in Washington.

Pete Maysmith, the Executive Director of Conservation Colorado, will be marching with his wife and two teenage daughters. He says that, in the wake of a divisive election, it’s a chance to “remember this tough time not with fear and sadness, but as a day of action and a way to see that there are millions of people out there who share our values of respect, love for others, and reverence for our natural world.”