Shortly after the election of Donald Trump as President in November 2016, a coalition of women came together to organize the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. That action on January 21, 2017, was probably the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, as five million people took to the streets in more than 300 cities around the world.
But, under the leadership of veteran activists including women of color, what started with outrage over the 2016 election has transformed into a growing and strategic organization that uses people power to fight the Trump Administration’s harmful agenda.
On January 19, the third annual Women’s March saw more than 65,000 people march in Washington, D.C., along with 319 sister marches held in cities across the country. The organizers also used this march to launch the organization’s 2019 Steering Committee, which has more than thirty members and elevates the diversity of the Women’s March leadership. They also consulted more than seventy activist leaders to craft a bold new Women’s Agenda that outlines twenty-four federal policy priorities over the next two years. It is clear that the Women’s March movement isn’t slowing down, but just getting started.
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Two days before the third annual Women’s March, the movement’s Executive Adviser Kim Russell (left) and Co-President Bob Bland (right) discuss logistics for the speakers and guests.
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Media strategist Nina Smith (left) works with Women’s March board member Linda Sarsour (right) on crafting a statement on the new Women’s Agenda before the march.
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Women’s March Co-President Tamika Mallory (right) heads to the Indigenous People’s March, in Washington, D.C., the day before the third annual Women’s March. She’s joined by fellow activists Mysonne Linen (left) and Kaji Spellman Douša (center).
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Sarsour takes a group selfie with young activists at a Women’s March youth event in Washington, D.C., the day before the third annual march.
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At 6 a.m. the morning of the march, Women’s March Disability Caucus Leader Mia Ives-Rublee arrives onsite at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
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Although still dark outside, hundreds of volunteers arrive at the check-in tent in Freedom Plaza to greet buses, organize marshals and artists, and prepare for the thousands of marchers to arrive.
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More than 65,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., on January 19, 2019, for the third annual Women’s March.