By Gabriella Borter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A number of thousand folks, principally girls, gathered in Washington on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with some carrying the pink hats that marked the much-larger protest in opposition to his first inauguration in 2017.
In Franklin Park, one among three kickoff places for the “Individuals’s March” that may wind by way of downtown, protesters gathered in mild rain to rally for gender justice and bodily autonomy.
Different protesters gathered at two different parks additionally close to the White Home, with one group targeted on democracy and immigration and one other on native Washington points, earlier than heading towards the march’s closing gathering on the Lincoln Memorial.
Police vehicles, with sirens on, drove between the kickoff places.
Protests in opposition to Trump’s inauguration are a lot smaller than in 2017, partly as a result of the U.S. girls’s rights motion fractured after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Distributors hawked buttons that mentioned #MeToo and “Love trumps hate,” and bought Individuals’s March flags for $10. Demonstrators carried posters that learn “Feminists v. Fascists” and “Individuals over politics.”
“It’s actually therapeutic to be right here with all of you at this time in solidarity and togetherness, within the face of what’s going to be some actually horrible extremism,” Mini Timmaraju, the top of advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All, instructed the gang as occasions kicked off.
She mentioned the excellent news was that abortion rights stay fashionable regardless of Trump’s win, main a chant of “We’re the bulk!”
Reproductive teams joined civil rights, atmosphere and different girls’s teams in organizing the march in opposition to Trump and his agenda as he prepares to take workplace on Monday. Trump gained all seven battleground states and the favored vote in November’s election.
