Giant crowds are expected at rallies around the United States Saturday for a second Women’s March opposing President Donald Trump, and calling for voter mobilization ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
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This year’s main event in Las Vegas, titled “Power to the Polls”, kicks off Sunday at 10 a.m. local time, and is being.
Still, others chanted “Equal work, equal pay”.
On Friday, anti-abortion activists held their own march in Washington, an annual event known as March for Life.
Protesters have gathered near the Eiffel Tower to rally against sexual misconduct and sex discrimination in solidarity with women’s marches marking the anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency. She teaches immigrants and says they’ve been “vilified” by Trump.
Some skewered the concept of a pro-Trump Women’s March.
Lilly Dean, a 19-year-old college student, said she was concerned because many issues central to women’s rights are spotlighted, sometimes negatively, on a daily basis.
People take part in the Women’s March in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., January 20, 2018. “Surely, among us is a woman who has been silent about her own story”.
The central organized 2018 Women’s March event is a Power to the Polls demonstration in Las Vegas on Sunday, focused on mobilizing national voter registration for the upcoming midterm election, which could reshape USA politics.
This year was pivotal for women’s rights with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements against sexual abuse and harassment, triggered by allegations against powerful men in the entertainment industry and beyond.
“We have a President in power who knows no history and seems to have no education, who just disrespects any and everybody in the world”, Marie Timothee, a social worker born in Haiti and raised in Brooklyn, told the New York Daily News.
“We can not whitewash it anymore”, Reiner said.
Chew says she came to the rally because she wanted to do something for the women’s movement and was exhausted of just listening on the radio and watching on TV. They estimated some 300,000 attended Saturday’s rally and march in downtown Chicago, exceeding last year’s attendance.
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of NY, who is often mentioned as a potential 2020 presidential candidate, also addressed the participants, saying: “It is women, who are holding our democracy together in these risky times”.
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On Saturday, women and men in cities around the country participated in the national Women’s March, which protested the president on the anniversary of his inauguration.
