In Washington D.C. 500 000 marchers, photo Brigid Williams
Saturday, January 21 will be forever remembered as the day after the Elections, a symbol of American women’s independence and determination, of a people’s revolution against the new President, when close to two million marched around the U.S. In L.A., San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Boston, Austin… 400 000 marchers took over Fifth avenue near Trump tower in New York and 500 000 people walked towards the Washington Monument in D.C..
Is this Land still made for you and me, after the Woody Guthrie song
All my reporting friends mentioned the same thing: there were so many more people than expected, that the March was at a standstill for lack of space everywhere. The police never had to interfere, all marchers were calm and determined. There were songs and even the bells of New York churches were playing “We shall overcome“. Here are some of the pictures that you took for me. Thank you !
A young militant in NY, photo Lynn Goldberg
Many young women took their daughters along, providing them with their first political experience and many signs were drawn by kids!
From London
Charles and Brigid on the Mall, wearing the pussy hat she had knitted on the train.
The pussy hat project was interesting in itself. All around the country, independent knitters created the pink woolen hats against Trump and stitched their name on them. You can still order some on internet. Train stations were packed and the subways were invaded by visitors.
The pussy theme was very inspiring, photo A and D de Gramont
The mobs in mid town Manhattan, photo Alix and Diane de Gramont
A group of 350 publishers and writers united under Farrar Straus & Giroux’s Sarah Crichton’s authority, demonstrated in New York. They called themselves the Mighty Marchers and started on Second avenue and 47 th Street. Women were young and old, surrounded by men or alone with children.
A long shrine of discarded signs was left near the White House. The whole day was a demonstration of the power of words, many signs having been designed by children.
Penelope and Beatrix in D.C.
New York city
Sigourney Weaver and husband Jim Simpson at the New York City March
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What a beautiful coverage…
Thank you Laure
Bravo Laure,
On ne militera jamais assez contre celui-là…
FABULOUS!!! Thank you for this report on an amazing and beautiful day!
Thanks to Laure and Brigid! Nancy from afar
It made me proud to be a woman and a New Yorker!
Great images, thanks Laure for sharing them with us, and thanks to everyone who took the pictures, to everyone who was out there for being there, and showing the world that we have a voice and an opinion.
bravo laure, great reporting job!!!!patty
Lovely! Woman Power! What a historical event!
Thanks for sharing, Laure. Let’s resist the grabber and his background.
Beautifully done. I re-posted on Facebook. Félicitations !
it was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful day – in the midst of a political nightmare!
my grandmother – Anna Strunsky Walling (one of Margaret Sanger’s VERY BEST friends/see Sanger’s three-page letter to Anna in my grandmother’s papers at Yale, written THE day that Sanger was sentenced to PRISON) – and my mother – Odette “dit Allaire” Bonnat Walling/Medaille de la Resistance and King’s Medal for Courage – would have been very, very proud. i know i was!