Other folks’s March Washington DC. Picture Credit score Fb Ladies’s March
On January 18, hundreds of demonstrators took to Washington DC streets, in a principally women-led march, to turn their resistance to Trumpism forward of his inauguration.
This Other folks’s March is the 8th of its type since Trump’s first inauguration again in 2017. Throughout the primary iteration of the march, crowds of women and men totalling over 500,000 demonstrators had been attracted to Washington DC, to not point out tens of hundreds extra around the nation.
The DC based totally demonstrations have at all times been each anti-Trump and pro-civil rights.
The Other folks’s March staff had stated ahead of the January 18 2025 march that: “With Trump set to go back to the White Space… we’re going through a second that calls us to behave boldly. It’s time to march.”
Members on Saturday amassed at quite a lot of issues throughout Washington DC after which made their technique to the Nationwide Mall the place they amassed on the Lincoln Memorial. Despite the fact that the Ladies’s or Other folks’s March has persisted to be a key anti-Trump protest, its numbers have declined every 12 months for the reason that first march.
This 12 months’s protests had been held two days upfront of Trump’s swearing-in rite on Monday, January 20, which, in a ordinary flip of occasions, will fall on Martin Luther King Jr Day (MLK Day). The Govt Director of Human Rights Watch, Tirana Hassan, stated again in November 2024 that “Donald Trump has made no secret of his intent to violate the human rights of tens of millions of folks in the US.”
Throughout MLK Day, American civil rights and Martin Luther King’s legacy as a social alternate activist are celebrated. The very civil rights that trendy activists insist Trump and his 2d presidential time period will put at risk. It’s tricky to consider a extra ironic day for Trump’s swearing-in to fall on.
There are next Other folks’s Marches throughout the US deliberate for January 19.
The Other folks’s March is a motion created in affiliation with main civil rights teams, reproductive rights teams and racial justice teams and is sponsored by means of giant names like Deliberate Parenthood and the Nationwide Ladies’s Legislation Centre. Throughout the US, greater than 100 associations again the Other folks’s March once a year.
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