"President Donald Trump wound up fulfilling his promise that his inauguration would break records, just probably not in the way he had in mind," on January 22. "The Women’s March, an anti-Trump protest aimed at standing up for women’s rights, is now estimated to be"
US Uncut on January 21 that hundreds of thousands more marched against Trump and his ultra-eractionary agenda around the world: "The Women’s March on Washington — the flagship event — drew, which was more than double what march organizers anticipated. However, marches are taking place in approximately 600 cities worldwide, and on all seven continents ()."
US Uncut said: "Marchers were undeterred by the cold temperatures normally associated with late January. New York City’s massive march stretched on for “miles,” according to participants on the scene. Gothamist reported that New York’s crowd came close to, which doubled original crowd projections. Even in St. Paul, Minnesota, approximately 60,000 people came out to the state capitol grounds to protest the Trump administration.
The march in Chicago brought out, making the crowd so big that it had to be moved from its original location at Federal Plaza to Hyde Park, and effectively shutting down the march route, as the crowd was too big to march through Chicago’s streets. The Denver Post reported that Denver, Colorado’s women’s march attracted.
"Saint Louis, Missouri city councilman Antonio French tweeted a video of the Women’s March in his city, which,, drew out between 11,000 and 13,000 people. Tens of thousands took the streets in Atlanta, and Boston’s march attracted more than 125,000 people.
"In the United Kingdom, somegathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to oppose Donald Trump’s presidency. Many Londoners carried signs highlighting President Trump’s demeaning remarks about women."
US Uncut said that based on numbers tallied by UConn professor Jeremy Pressman, the current total estimate of those who attended the marches (excluding those who demonstratedin other countries).The numbers are only expected to increase as more accurate numbers pour in.
For context, here is howthe Women’s March numbers stack up:
Martin Luther King’s March on Washington DC (1963), where he gave the historic “I Have a Dream” speech: 250,000
Anti-Vietnam war protest in Washington DC (1969) – 500,000-600,000
Anti-Nuclear March in NYC Central Park (1982) – 1 million
March on Washington DC for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation (1993) – Between 800,000 and 1 million
Protest against the Iraq War in cities across America (2003) – 500,000
Women’s March in cities across the United States (2017) – 3.1 million.
Pressman’s up-to-date numbersUS Uncut’s estimates
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