Hundreds of individuals from round the US rallied within the nation’s capital Saturday for girls’s reproductive rights and different causes they imagine are below risk from the incoming Trump administration, reprising the unique Ladies’s March days earlier than President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
In Boston, a Lady’s March passed off Saturday on the Boston Frequent.
Eight years after the primary historic Ladies’s March firstly of Trump’s first time period, marchers stated they have been caught off guard by Trump’s victory and are decided now to indicate that assist stays robust for girls’s entry to abortion, for transgender folks, for combating local weather change and different points.
The march is only one of a number of protests, rallies and vigils targeted on abortion, rights, immigration rights and the Israel-Hamas warfare deliberate upfront of inauguration Monday. Across the nation, over 350 related marches are going down in each state.
Jill Parrish of Austin, Texas, stated she initially purchased a aircraft ticket to Washington for what she anticipated to be Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration. She wound up altering the dates to march in protest forward of Trump’s swearing-in as an alternative, saying the world ought to know that half of U.S. voters didn’t assist Trump.
“Most importantly, I’m here to demonstrate my fear, about the state of our democracy,” Parrish stated.
Demonstrators staged in squares round Washington forward of the march, pounding drums and yelling chants below a slate-gray sky and in a cold wind. Protesters then marched to the Lincoln Memorial for bigger rally and truthful, the place organizations on the native, state and nationwide stage will host data tables.
They held indicators with slogans together with, “Save America” and “Against abortions? Then don’t have one” and “Hate won’t win.”
