Almost 400 sister marches are being held around the world for those unable to attend the one in Washington.
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The Women’s March on Washington is a grassroots effort comprised of hundreds of independent coordinators at the state level.
WOMEN across Scotland are getting ready to mark the inauguration of Donald J Trump as President of the USA with a string of protests, marches and community action.
“People want to see America stand up for what it has always believed”, Mayo said. From there, they will walk as one onto the National Mall to join about 200,000 other expected protesters.
A group of Auburn-area residents will head to the nation’s capital Saturday for the Women’s March on Washington. But for some, the countdown is for the day after the inauguration, when thousands of women, and men, will march on Washington to voice their opinions on women’s rights. Hundreds of other communities are holding simultaneous events, including some in Canada.
“I’m wanting my presence to make a statement”, she said.
“If we don’t keep the dialogue going then how will we ever resolve our issues?”
“Well, he tweets about everything else”, Gale said, adding that she politely declined an offer of tickets to the inauguration by her Bethesda landlord.
The national rally was sparked the day after Mr. Trump’s surprise victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November 6 election.
Organizing the march, which began as a local endeavor in D.C., has not been without difficulty.
They feel Trump has policies which will undermine rights of women, religions, people of colour, the LGBTQ community and those with disabilities.
The Republican Trump insulted female reporters, a female political rival and other women over their looks, and a video surfaced in which he could be heard bragging about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances.
There is an expectation that the march will be massive, but peaceful.
Williams will, as she has, continue to write letters to her elected officials when she opposes their actions.
The US presidential election is now just 17 days away and the accusations from women just keep coming.
Katie Angus said taking part in the event feels like being a part of history. Immediately, she was all in: “I’m a child of the 60s and this will be my first march”.
Mar says she is very proud of her stepdaughter and hopes the event will highlight the need for equality and respect for women. They also want to rollback reproductive rights by repealing Roe v. Wade. “So the march is just a way for me to express my dislike of what’s going on”.
Levesque has concerns about the proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the environment.
After all, the 60-year-old remembers how much progress had been made for women’s rights beginning in the 1970s and the growth of the modern feminism movement. So the march is open to everyone, and it is in defence of everyone’s rights.
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Rather than whinge, the event gave people a chance to do something with the feeling that hate and discrimination had become dangerously common levers in politics and social discourse, she said. Her bus is nearly full.
