![]() Subsequently, the organization March On was formed. She and a handful of other organizers gathered first in Denver and then again in May in Chicago to discuss “how to carry our work forward.” Their verdict: They need to be even more of a grassroots movement by focusing on getting people elected in red states. After, some of us started talking about what came next.” “When in fact it was highly decentralized. “People think that the Women’s March was highly coordinated across the country and world,” Wruble told CNN. It was around May when Vanessa Wruble, one of the co-founders of the Women’s March on Washington, felt it was time to branch out. But what became apparent to Women’s March organizers early on in 2017 was that while they were unified in their goals of a vocal opposition to Trump and encouraging political action and activism, they were divided in how to achieve them. Such internal tension in a large movement like this one is of course inevitable. There are multiple national groups and countless grassroots organizations working together, and often apart. ![]() What’s clear from the footage: Organizing such a huge movement is not easy, nor is organizing the organizers. 19, shows organizers behind the scenes in the months after the Women’s March in Washington, DC, as they try to keep up momentum from that enormous event that united the diverse coalition of people who oppose the President. General participation in The Women’s March on Washington is free.The meeting was captured in footage for CNN Digital’s documentary, “ Women Who March: The Movement.” and will end at the White House gates at 5 p.m. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The Women’s March on Washington is set to start at 10 a.m. 21 for those who are unable to travel to D.C. Other organizers affiliated with The Women's March on Washington will also host marches in individual cities including Los Angeles and New York City on Jan. Bus and train services, like Rally, will provide round-trip transportation from several East Coast cities to the march at discounted rates. ![]() We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us,” read the statement.Īlthough organizers told the Times that they had no official funders for the march, other volunteers in various states have organized trips and launched GoFundMe pages to help get state participants to and from the nation’s capital on the day of the march. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights. “In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The inclusive event is aimed at unifying women, immigrants of all legal statuses, the LGBTQ community, Muslims and other religious groups, minorities, the economically impoverished, disabled people and those who have been victims of sexual assault, according to a statement on the event’s official Facebook page. And, like, ‘Welcome to the White House,’” Butler said.Īnother one of the event planners, Evvie Harmon, said the march was not an “anti-Trump protest,” but more so a “reaction of women and minorities across the world who are very disturbed by the rhetoric that was said” by Trump during his campaign. “The marginalized groups you attacked during your campaign? We are here and we are watching. 21.īreanne Butler, one of the march’s organizers, told the New York Times Thursday the event was scheduled for Trump’s first day in office because the group wanted to make a statement. The march, which was announced on Facebook, will travel from the Lincoln Memorial to the White House on Jan. 20, more than 100,000 people from all across the United States will march to the new president’s home during a massive Women’s March on Washington. Just one day after Donald Trump officially moves into the White House on Jan. ![]() Women chant slogans while marching against President-elect Donald Trump in Manhattan, New York on Nov.
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