'This is the upside of the downside' Women's March finds hope in defiance Day 2
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Date: 2017-02-06

'This is the upside of the downside' Women's March finds hope in defiance Day 2 :

The Women’s March on Washington was believed to be on track to exceed a million participants on Saturday, as organizers said the huge rally in the capital and US marches from coast to coast had been peaceful despite huge numbers and palpable anger at the agenda of President Trump.

Evvie Harmon, global coordinator of the marches, said initial and unofficial estimates put the crowd in Washington at more than 1 million people and the attendance at events worldwide in excess of 3 million.

“I’m hoping it will be a record in Washington,” she told the Guardian. “Especially with the turnout at the inauguration on Friday being, well, not so high.”

Harmon based her calculation on reports from march stewards and volunteers who were out on the streets of the capital and had experienced the first inauguration of Barack Obama as president in 2009, when as many as 1.8 million people were estimated to have come to Washington.

If the crowd for the Women’s March did exceed a million, it would almost certainly be the largest protest recorded in US history, topping the enormous demonstrations of the civil rights era and against the Vietnam war, which frequently attracted a quarter to half a million people.

Perhaps surprisingly, given the sheer numbers packed into the streets in many cities and the rage and defiance bubbling beneath the sea of pink hats, there was no reported trouble.

“I have not heard of any arrests,” said Harmon.
The Washington Monument shrouded in clouds as people pack the National Mall for the Women’s March.
The Washington Monument shrouded in clouds as people pack the National Mall for the Women’s March. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

This contrasted with Trump’s inauguration day on Friday, when protesters in black masks smashed windows, set fires and threw rocks at police wearing riot gear.

There were more than 230 arrests on Friday and District of Columbia prosecutors said on Saturday many were due in court and could face felony rioting charges.

Those dark scenes provided a frightening backdrop as Donald Trump gave a grim inaugural speech. But on Saturday an ocean of women in pink hats cheered and chanted with a mix of exuberance and defiance.

The crowds were of remarkable size in many cities, especially in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York and with significant rallies in Boston and Atlanta as well as Seattle, Nashville, Houston, Denver and many others.

By midday the crowd inWashington had grown to an estimated 500,000 and as a rally at the base of Capitol Hill continued, streets radiating out from the buildings at the heart of America’s democracy began to fill with people.

Roads and mass transit were packed and there was uncertainty at one stage about whether the planned march to the Ellipse, in front of the White House, could actually take place. In the event the crowds continued in what amounted to a triumphant shuffle to within earshot of the Trump White House.

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Women crowd the Metro in Washington DC on their way to the march.
Women crowd the Metro in Washington DC on their way to the march. Photograph: Adrees Latif/Reuters

Speakers warned of “a heart-wrenching time to be a woman. The Latina activist and actress America Ferrera called on the crowds to reject “a credo of hate”.

Less than 24 hours before, near the same spot, Trump had delivered a brutal, sinister speech meant to whip up ordinary people against Washington. The president railed against a dystopian scene of “American carnage”, in which crime, poverty, post-industrial decline, drug addiction and economic inequality scarred the landscape.

On Saturday, Ferrara said: “It’s been a heart-wrenching time to be a woman and an immigrant in this country – a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America ... We are America.”

She was followed by the feminist activist Gloria Steinem, who said of Trump: “He said he was for the people … I have met the people and you are not them.”

She added: “This is the upside of the downside. This is an outpouring of energy and true democracy that I have never seen in my very long life. It is wide in age, it is deep in diversity and remember the constitution does not begin with ‘I the president’ it begins with ‘we the people’.”
Gloria Steinem greets protesters before speaking at the Women’s March on Washington.
Gloria Steinem greets protesters before speaking at the Women’s March on Washington. Photograph: John Minchillo/AP

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