Demonstrators converge in DC for People’s March ahead of second Trump term

We won't take the bait

Police intervened and removed him from the march peacefully as protesters chanted

This is just the beginning for the UK Women’s March. We remain steadfast in our commitment to campaigning and marching until all women worldwide are free, have equitable access to healthcare, and no longer live in fear of violence and oppression.”

Organisers Ashley Donaldson, Carolyn Storer and Hollie Jordan said

It’s about our future,

said Bea, Nerys, Annie and Nell, who were all attending the march in London with their mothers

To represent the woman oppressed everywhere. Collectively we need to raise our voices. No woman is free until all women are free... we can’t let s*** slide anymore.”

Demi Reilly, 30, told The Independent she attended

To show solidarity, to show we’re not alone.”

Among the reasons she was demonstrating, the 24-year-old said

Please don’t make me a commodity”, ... And for her future too.”

Ms Deaves added

Thousands of people are marching in Washington D.C at the People's March against Trump. They are chanting 'we will not go back.'

Brian Krassenstein, who rose to internet fame by trolling Trump on social media, posted on X, formerly Twitter, a video of the protest and wrote

MARCH this Saturday 1/18! Join the People's March in Washington, DC or a city near you and remind our elected officials that they work for the people. We are more united than we are divided, and we must show our elected leaders that we will not stay silent in the face of threats to our freedoms."

Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream company wrote on X on January 15

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So much for the resistance being dead. The People's March is huge."

Writer Joe Flood posted a photo of the march on X and wrote

Before we do anything about democracy, we have to fight our own despair!"

Rachel O'Leary Carmona, the executive director of Women's March, said at the Saturday march, per the Associated Press

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January 20th cannot come fast enough! Everybody, even those that initially opposed a Victory by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration, just want it to happen."

President-elect Donald Trump wrote in part in a Truth Social post on Friday

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It’s really healing to be here with all of you today in solidarity and togetherness, in the face of what’s going to be some really horrible extremism,

Mini Timmaraju, the head of advocacy group Reproductive Freedom for All, told the crowd as events kicked off

So many people are voting against their own interests. I don't understand it,

Dutwells told AFP

This is my first time marching. And I want to do this again. I feel motivated, stimulated by all these people. I have faith in the future, even though I'm scared,

Kong said

I'm trying to remain hopeful. It feels very good to be surrounded with so many people. I'll continue the fight back home,

she told AFP, adding

Most importantly, I'm here to demonstrate my fear, about the state of our democracy,

Parrish said

Often what it does is bring change and bring in new perspectives, especially of underrepresented voices,

Reger said

The reality is that it's just hard to capture lightning in a bottle,

said Tamika Middleton, managing director at the Women's March

We're not thinking about the march as the endgame,

Middleton said

I just wanted to be surrounded by likeminded people on a day like today,

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