In a number of U.S. cities have passed the "women's March" protest
. "Women's March" protest on the first day of the weekend In many U.S. cities, said organizers.
The demonstrators campaigned for women's rights, racial And sexual minorities, and also protested against the policies of President Donald trump. Most of the participants joined the Democratic party, but the procession does not have organizational ties with the Democrats.
This is the third annual March. It all started millions of marches of the protest in January 2017, the next day after the official event of the inauguration of the trump. In 2019 participants was much smaller, and the organizers had a disagreement. And if in the US capital for the rally, there were thousands of people (two years ago it was more than half a million), then in new York the procession, as can be seen in the photos in social networks has attracted only a few hundred. According to the Seattle Times, on the March in the capital of the state of Washington came about five thousand people 100 thousand against two years earlier.
Many cities were organized several warring with each other processions, the organizers of which were arguing about the leadership of the movement. The split among the organizers was facilitated by the fact that the co-founder of the protest movement Tamika Mallory was charged in connection with the "Nation of Islam" And the reluctance to condemn the anti-Semitic phrase the head of this sect Louis Farrakhan.
Despite the decline in activity of the protests, their organizers over the past two years has achieved some of its political goals. In the midterm elections for Congress the Democrats for the first time in eight years received the supervision of ward commissioners. In addition, the ward commissioners were elected by a record number of women over 130, the vast majority among them are from the Democratic party.