500,000-plus people, including unionists, descend on D.C. for historic mass march for women’s rights; sister marches occur nationwide: “Show us what America looks like! This is what America looks like!” With that chant – a variation on one that unionists first coined – and more than 500,000 people, including unionists from as far as Los Angeles, descended on Washington on Jan. 21 for a massive march for women’s rights. But that wasn’t the only cause espoused by the D.C. marchers, who were joined by sister marches in cities from New York to Chicago to Minneapolis to St. Louis to Cleveland to Los Angeles – and by busloads and planeloads of marchers who traveled from New York Chicago, L.A., Toronto, Boston, Portland, Ore., and elsewhere.
Latest estimates put the number at over 1 million around the world. And women’s rights wasn’t the only cause that prompted the D.C. march. Campaigners for worker rights, gay-lesbian-bisexual rights, immigrants’ rights, freedom from police brutality against African-Americans, veterans who protested wars and Muslim-Americans protesting discrimination overwhelmed the nation’s capitol. Their numbers dwarfed the 100,000 people whom new Republican President Donald Trump drew the day before. The D.C. march drew members of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the Teachers, the Steelworkers, the Office and Professional Employees, AFSCME District Council 24, the Mine Workers, the Food and Commercial Workers, IATSE, the Electrical Workers, the Professional and Technical Employees, Pride at Work and the Auto Workers, among others. Click here for our Facebook album of photos and here to read more: http://bit.ly/2jSII9x
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