Women’s March on Washington - Watch Live

Women S March Nyc - RIGHT NOW Crowds have gathered on Saturday for the Women’s March on Washington, a kind of counter-inauguration after President Donald J. Trump took office on Friday. The rally portion is underway, featuring speakers like Gloria Steinem and performers like Janelle Monáe near the Capitol. Afterward, participants will march down the National Mall.Women S March Nyc
• The event is an attempt to unify protesters around issues like reproductive rights, immigration and civil rights, but it has also encountered divisions.
• The Times has journalists covering the marches in Washington; New York; Boston; Atlanta; Denver; Los Angeles; Phoenix; St. Paul, Minn.; and Key West, Fla. Follow them on Twitter. See a map of where marches were set to take place around the world.

The March Route in Washington - Women S March Nyc

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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered for the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday.CreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times

Here are the highlights from the rally in Washington: Women S March Nyc

• The actress and activist America Ferrera appeared early on.
“It’s been a heartrending time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday,” she said.
d pink knit “pussyhats” to march to the Capitol.
“What Trump has said is so based on exclusion and winning and being right versus taking care of everyone,” said Hilary James, 27, a musician from Minneapolis. “Even if he doesn’t listen to us, I feel it’s important to not sit back.”
Christina Capecchi
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Protesters in Washington are fired up and ready to go -Women S March Nyc

Location: Boston. Time: 10:25 a.m.

Notable sign: Make America Think Again Women S March Nyc
Overheard: “It’s like, the beloved community,” said Susan Kaplan, 70, who had ridden one of several busses that departed from Newburyport, Mass., to the Boston Common, adding, “It’s a welcome change from yesterday.”
The Boston Common, a gently rolling park ridged by brownstones in the shadow of the state capitol, morphed into a sea of pink hats and protest signs on Saturday morning. Seventy-five buses dropped off protesters, including women in leopard-print pink hats, and young girls with their arms linked, apparently doing the can-can. Organizers said they expected as many as 100,000 demonstrators, and, by mid-morning, there were thousands. Music boomed around the park, and many here seemed to nod to this city’s history of Revolutionary protest.
“Revolution begins in Boston,” one sign said.
Gloria Cole, 66, had turned the protest into a family affair, traveling here with her wife, her daughter, her daughter’s boyfriend, and her brother and sister in law. Women S March Nyc
Women S March Nyc“I drew a line, it’s like, I’m an old woman — I’m not that old, I’m 66 — I have to stand up for equal rights for everyone, for human rights,” Ms. Cole said. “We’re here, and we’re not going away.”
Further down the common, Aili Shaw, 14, held a white sign that read, “Our arms are tired from holding these signs since the 1920’s.”
Ms. Shaw had traveled here, by train and car, with friends from her home in Coventry, R.I.
“Women don’t have the rights they should,” Ms. Shaw said.
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Location: Washington. Time: 10:30 a.m.

Popular Chant: “Thank You.” Women here are chanting this to the organizers of the march, who took to the main stage to kick off the day’s events.Women S March Nyc
Women S March NycNotable Clothing: At the corner of C and Third Southwest, many women (and some men) are cat-eared “pussyhats” of all shades of pink. Organizers wanted to knit as many as one million hats for this event.Women S March Nyc
Women S March NycPeople are also getting creative with the signs they carry. Alan and Alison Lewis drove in from Astoria with their 20-month-old, Grace.Women S March Nyc
Women S March Nyc“You shouldn’t have to have a relationship to a woman to stand up for women,” Mr. Lewis said. “Equality and justice is enough of a reason to be here.”
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Location: New York City. Time: 5 a.m.

Notable Sign: “Hey Little Man, We’re America.”
Overheard: A young man was on a bus with a group of high schoolers leaving for Washington. “At least I can be confident knowing that my first presidential vote will be to vote Donald Trump out of office,” he said.
It was still dark outside early Saturday as women started to gather on a Brooklyn corner to board buses to the march in Washington. They arrived at 4:30 a.m., holding coffee cups and posters and bundled in layers — part of a wave of thousands of New Yorkers traveling there.
A line of women stretched in front of a row of brownstones on 9th Street in the liberal enclave of Park Slope. There was excitement over being part of history and anguish over the election of Mr. Trump.
“I thought it would be a good mother-daughter feminist type thing,” said Penelope Duus, 22, a student at Vassar College who wore a pink hat with “Not my president” written in black marker.
Her mother, Margaret Heilbrun, 59, wore a President Obama pin on her vest. “Rather than sit around in despair we need to start trying to do something,” she said. “Just the act of getting up and joining this is a start.”
Barbara Telfair, 71, persuaded her 19-year-old granddaughter Shyanne Cady to accompany her. Ms. Telfair said she marched in civil rights protests in the 1960s. This was Shyanne’s first protest.
“We’re terrified, and his treatment of women is horrible,” Ms. Telfair said. “He doesn’t value women. His agenda is going to show that.”
Three buses were filled with marchers, but it soon became clear that not everyone would make it to Washington. Sighs erupted as organizers announced that some of the scheduled buses were not coming after all.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Source:www.nytimes.com