After the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, there seems to be no stopping to protests against the Republican. On a day when women across Washington DC and 60 nations marched against Trump “to stand up for women’s rights and human rights”, there were some who took the protest to Paradise Bay, a remote town in Antarctica. As reported by CNN, 30 volunteers comprising of eco-minded tourists and non-government scientists, boarded a ship to the international waters of Antarctica and held placards saying, “penguins for peace” and “seals for science” to support the women’s march.

Hundreds of thousands of women, supported by a smaller number of men, gathered in dozens of cities across North America on Saturday to march in opposition to US President Donald Trump the day after the maverick Republican took office. The march went international as 670 cities joined by launching “sister protests”. Women took to the streets in nations ranging from Peru to Kenya, Georgia to Israel. In the US, an estimated 200,000 women were expected to descend in Washington, but, according to reports, a much larger group of people turned up for the march, from states far and near.

The US President has angered many liberal Americans with comments seen as demeaning to women, Mexicans and Muslims, and worried some abroad with his inaugural vow on Friday to put “America First” in his decision making. </s> A year after millions of people turned out for the Women’s March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump’s inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States, galvanized by their disdain for Mr. Trump and his administration’s policies.

A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has pushed activists to demand deeper social and political change. Progressive women are eager to build on the movement and translate their enthusiasm into electoral victories in this year’s midterm elections.

Here are some highlights:

• More than 200,000 protesters attended the march in New York on Saturday, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said 600,000 attended the march there, while organizers of the Chicago march said 300,000 attended that event. Thousands also turned out in Washington, Philadelphia, Austin and hundreds of other cities and towns around the country and world.

• Several speakers urged women to channel their energy into helping Democrats win races in the upcoming midterm elections. A rally called “Power to the Polls,” organized by the leaders of last year’s Women’s March in Washington, will be held on Sunday in Las Vegas. </s> Protesters, part of a 500,000 strong crowd, attend the Women's Rally on the one-year anniversary of the first Women's March in Los Angeles on Jan. 20. The city's mayor Eric Garcetti, a Democrat, estimated that as many as 600,000 people joined the protest. | Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Imafes Hundreds of thousands protest in D.C., across country on women's march anniversary

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marked the first anniversary of the national women's march in cities across the country on Saturday, vowing that last year's massive turnout was only the first stage of a movement protesting President Donald Trump, as many politicians sought to add their voices, too.

According to local media reports, organizers said some 300,000 people attended the rally in Chicago — far more than were expected. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said 120,00 people attended a protest there. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, also a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that 600,000 people turned out for its rally.

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At its 2 p.m. peak, last year's Washington march drew some 470,000 marchers in a pointed protest to Trump's inauguration that stunned political observers and galvanized burgeoning opposition to the new president.

This year's focus is on Las Vegas, where marchers will gather Sunday, though news footage showed large swells of protesters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. According to the march's official website, protests are planned for both Saturday and Sunday in almost every state and around the world.

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Celebrities attending various events included Jane Fonda, Eva Longoria and Scarlett Johansson. Attorney Gloria Allred attended the Park City, Utah march. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, attended the D.C. march.

"Today we're sending Trump another message, look out your window," Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, told marchers in Washington. "See us, hear us, feel our power. You can't stop us with your tweets, you can't stop us with your bullying and you can't stop us with your hate speech."

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez emphasized the number of women running on the party's ticket in November.

"If the Congress, if the White House, if the governorships across America had more women like I see here today, we would be a much better America," Perez said.

In Washington, congressional hopefuls like Nadia Hashimi used the platform to highlight their campaigns. Hashimi is running to replace Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who has announced his intentions to run for president in 2020 and is not seeking reelection. The Cook Political report rates the seat as a safe Democratic district.

"I attended this march last year. I was outraged,” said Nadia Hashimi, who is running to become the first Afghan woman elected to Congress. “I stood with fellow physicians, ready to demand change, and this year I stand in front of this crowd as a candidate because I decided, like so many of you, that enough is enough, and if we are the majority then we should look like it.”

Trump took to Twitter to give his personal take on the marchers on Saturday afternoon: "Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!"

At a protest in New Jersey, Tammy Murphy, wife of the newly inaugurated Gov. Phil Murphy, told fellow protesters that she had been sexually assaulted in college. According to local media reports, attendees grew silent as Tammy Murphy recounted her assault and encouraged other women to come forward.

"Until today, only a few have heard my story," Murphy said, according to an NJ.com report. "Now, you all know. I tell this today not for me, but really for all of you. Surely, among us is a woman who has been silent about her own story.

While the march was planned before the government shutdown, multiple speakers emphasized that Democratic lawmakers need to hold their ground on legal protections for so-called Dreamers, a key sticking point in the ongoing government funding negotiations.

Trump made the decision to end DACA, an Obama-era immigration executive order, last year, but delayed the repeal until March.

Organizers have said that they are focusing on Nevada because of its importance in November's midterm elections. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton narrowly carried the state in 2016 and Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) is widely viewed as one of the most endangered GOP incumbents — a must-take seat for Democrats in their quest for the majority. </s> Thousands of women gathered in cities across the United States and around the world on the anniversary of the inauguration of President Donald Trump to call for equal rights in pay and health care, to denounce sexual harassment and to encourage women to run for office.

Marchers also addressed such issues as racial equality, gun control, immigrant protections and conservatives' efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

Crowd estimates for the march in Washington were down from last year's gathering. But marches also were taking place in New York; Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Chicago; Denver, Colorado; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Palm Beach, Florida, where the president has a vacation home.

Las Vegas is holding its rally on Sunday to coincide with a voter registration drive. Organizers of the drive are targeting states where Democrats and Republicans have about an equal chance of winning, and they're hoping to register 1 million new voters.

The rallies were meant to follow up last year's women's march that took place immediately after Trump's inauguration. Many women at that march indicated their opposition to the current president, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 19 women.

Over the past year, stories about unequal pay for women and sexual harassment by powerful men have come to the forefront of the national conversation. Dozens of men, including movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, NBC morning news host Matt Lauer, and Democratic Senator Al Franken, lost or resigned their jobs over allegations of sexual harassment.

Women also marched Saturday in Rome; Kampala, Uganda; Frankfurt, Germany; and Osaka, Japan, to protest sexual harassment. Marches were planned in Beijing; Buenos Aires and Nairobi, Kenya.

On Friday, anti-abortion activists held their own march in Washington, an annual event known as March for Life. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke to the crowd via video from the White House Rose Garden.

"We are with you all the way," Trump told the anti-abortion demonstrators. Pence told the crowd the president was "the most pro-life president in American history." </s> WASHINGTON, D.C—Roughly half a million people of all ages, backgrounds and genders crammed into the nation’s capital a day after President Donald Trump took the oath of office—a demonstration that called itself the “Women’s March,” but protested the GOP agenda on healthcare, immigration and the rights of racial and sexual minorities.

Participants packed the center of the city so densely that little actual marching occurred. Instead, the crowd heard speeches from an array politicians, activists and entertainers.

All spoke against Trump’s proposals to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, create a registry of Muslim citizens and appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn decisions legalizing gay marriage and abortion.

Among them were national co-chairwomen: Arab-American activist Linda Sarsour, former Rev. Al Sharpton lieutenant Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez, executive director of singer/advocate Harry Belafonte’s Gathering for Justice Group. Sarsour, executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York and founder and CEO of MPower Change, proclaimed that she was “unapologetically” Muslim-American, Palestinian-American and a Brooklynite.

“You are my hope for my community,” she told the crowd. “I will respect the presidency but I will not respect this president of the United States of America. I will not accept an administration that won an election on the backs of Muslims and black people and undocumented people and Mexicans and people with disabilities.”

The event kicked off with speeches on Independence Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets, then attendees, elected officials, celebrities and activities marched to the Washington Monument and the Ellipse. Demonstrators carried “GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN-DAMENTAL RIGHTS,” “Women Scientists Against Trump,” “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I can’t accept” and “LOVE MAKES AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” And they yelled and shouted, “Thank you Obama!,” “My body, my choice!” and “When they go low, we go high!”—the last an echo of former First Lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said that she came to the march to show support on behalf of women and elected officials. She also spoke about the need for Washington, D.C. to become the 51st state so it could receive more power and funds, and asserted that everyone should stand up for women’s rights.

“We women are more harshly, more frequently and profoundly criticized when we speak up for women and neighborhoods and families and public education,” Bowser said. “We need every woman and every man to speak up for us, too.”

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand credited Hillary Clinton with putting “65 million cracks in the hardest and highest glass ceiling”—that is, one for every vote she received.

“We want to be counted, we want to be heard and we are going to fight for what we believe in,” Gillibrand said. “Just as women stand down their own future at the impossible, we are not turning back.”

Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Sen. Kamala Harris of California, Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz—who resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee last year amid the first WikiLeaks email scandal—and Congresswomen Grace Meng, Yvette Clarke and Nydia Velazquez of New York were also in attendance.

Among the number of celebrities who spoke or sang included Michael Moore, Ashley Judd, America Ferrera, Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, Janelle Monae and Jidenna. Millions of people took part in parallel rallies in cities across the nation. </s> In a second day of US demonstrations for women's rights and against President Donald Trump, marchers took to streets of Las Vegas on Sunday.

The rally aimed to highlight the need for political organization ahead of mid-term congressional elections set for later this year.

"We have to march together, we have to organize together, we have to mobilize together and we have to vote together, even when we don't like one another," said Tamika Mallory, co-chairwoman of the national Women's March organization, in Las Vegas.

"We have the power to change every policy and make every elected official work for us.... but we must stand up and be loud and be bold."

Demonstrators in the desert city marched and chanted "Power to the polls."

Some waved signs saying, "You can't fix stupid but you can vote it out," "The president of the US is a racist," and "We're not gonna take it sisters."

Saturday, demonstrators took to the streets en masse around the United States banging drums and donning pink hats for a second Women's March opposing the president -- a year to the day since Trump's inauguration, when more than three million people turned out nationwide to voice opposition to Trump.

Hundreds of thousands of marchers assembled in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, Chicago, Denver, Boston and other cities nationwide.

Many donned pink knit "pussy hats" -- a reference to Trump's boast of his license to grope women without repercussions. </s> Participants turn out by the hundreds for the women's march in front of the Pantheon in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Rallies or marches were scheduled to take place in many cities around the world the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as new President of the United States. (Maurizio Brambatti/ANSA via AP) </s> On President Donald Trump's first day in office, women around the U.S. and around the world staged marches in solidarity with the Women's March on Washington.See photos from the marches on Saturday in the gallery above. </s> (NEW YORK) — In Palm Beach, Florida, home to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, several hundred people gathered carrying anti-Trump signs as they prepared to march as part of Saturday’s planned protests.

Across the globe, people hit the streets on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, marching against his policies and in support of the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment.

In Palm Beach, a group of women wearing red cloaks and white hats like the characters in the book and TV show “The Handmaid’s Tale” marched in formation, their heads bowed.

Elsewhere around the U.S., people congregated in Chicago; Houston; Richmond, Virginia; and Rhode Island. In Los Angeles, organizers predicted thousands of people, including state officials and celebrities, would march to City Hall.

A protest in New York was among more than 200 such actions planned for the weekend around the world. By mid-morning, people gathered in Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver and Raleigh, North Carolina. In Philadelphia, many marchers wore pink cat-ear hats as a show of solidarity, while others carried signs stating opposition to Trump and his policies.

In Chicago, thousands of people gathered in Grant Park. Fawzia Mirza drew cheers from the crowd as she kicked off the event with a reference to the partial government shutdown, which began hours earlier.

“When the government shuts down, women still march,” she said.

She said the event was about channeling women’s energy and “putting that power in the polls.”

Earlier Saturday, dozens of activists gathered in Rome to denounce violence against women and express support for the #MeToo movement. They were joined by Italian actress and director Asia Argento, who made headlines after alleging in 2017 she had been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in the 1990s.

The 2017 rally in Washington, D.C., and hundreds of similar marches created solidarity for those denouncing Trump’s views on abortion, immigration, LGBT rights and more. Millions of people around the world marched during last year’s rallies, and many on Saturday thought about all that’s happened in the past year.

“I’d be lying if I said that I’m not dispirited and discouraged over having to march yet again to register our opposition to this disastrous first year of the Trump presidency,” said Peggy Taylor, a New York tour guide.

She said that last year she felt “a kind of euphoria” walking through the city with hundreds of thousands of participants.

This year, “the hard reality of what lies ahead of us has sunk in,” she said. “I know that we have a long slog ahead of us to undo the damage that this man has inflicted.”

The Republican president on Friday delivered new support to the anti-abortion movement he once opposed, speaking by video to thousands of activists at the annual March for Life.

In New York, scheduled speakers included Ashley Bennett, a Democrat who was elected Atlantic County, New Jersey, freeholder last November. Bennett defeated Republican incumbent John Carman, who had mocked the 2017 women’s march in Washington with a Facebook post asking whether the women would be home in time to cook dinner.

Among the goals of this year’s march are getting more Democrats to run for public office and bolstering voter registration.

In Rome, Argento addressed the criticism she received once she spoke up about her abuse.

“Women are scared to speak and because I was vilified by everything I said, I was called a prostitute for being raped,” she said at the rally. “I wonder how women who received such violence would find the courage to come out as I did, when they saw what happened to me, so I am here to assess the necessity of women to speak out and change things.”

Argento, who’s 42, was strongly criticized by many Italian media and Italian women for not speaking out earlier and was hounded on Twitter with accusations that she sought trouble.

Weinstein has apologized for causing “a lot of pain” with “the way I’ve behaved with colleagues in the past,” but he has denied “any allegations of non-consensual sex.”

Last year’s march in Washington sparked debate over inclusion, with some transgender minority women complaining that the event seemed designed for white women born female. Some anti-abortion activists said the event did not welcome them.

The organizers for the Sunday rally are striving for greater inclusion this year, with Latina and transgender female speakers, said Carmen Perez, another co-chair of the 2017 Washington march. Women in the U.S. illegally, sex workers and those formerly incarcerated are welcome, she said.

Linda Sarsour, one of the four organizers of last year’s Washington march, said Las Vegas was slotted for a major rally because it’s a strategic swing state that gave Democrat Hillary Clinton a narrow win in the presidential election and will have one of the most competitive Senate races in 2018.

The rallies also laid the groundwork for the recent movement that brought a reckoning for powerful men accused of sexual misconduct, Sarsour said.

“I think when women see visible women’s leadership, bold and fierce, going up against a very racist, sexist, misogynist administration, it gives you a different level of courage that you may not have felt you had,” she said.
A crowd of over 500,000 gather in Washington DC, U.S., to advocate for women's rights and address the inauguration of Donald Trump (The New York Times) (L.A. Times)