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Second Women's March Since Trump Inauguration Sees Larger Turnout in Many Cities

January 23, 2018 15:31·
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They sent pre-recorded messages via video, offering their support and encouraging their constituents to use their voices and vote.

Organizers said the focus this year has shifted from resistance against the Trump administration to influencing upcoming local, state and midterm elections.

In Washington, the city where thousands of people wore pink past year to show the recently-elected US President Donald Trump that they didn't support him, Heather Tucci commented that she was not going to stay apart and maintain her mouth closed.

One of them is 71-year-old Toni Chew, who's a rancher from Sheridan, Wyoming.

"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.

Patti Merritt, a 65-year-old retiree from Fountain Hills, Arizona, says the women's movement has created a whole new awareness. As President Trump said, everything is the Dems' fault, but some people believe it's his responsibility. REUTERS/Steve MarcusSinger Faith Evans performs during the Women's March rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 21, 2018.

Among the crowd was Paula Beaty, who wore a women's suffrage outfit from early 1900s.

Many women at that march indicated their opposition to the current president, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 19 women.

Millions of people around the world marched during last year's rallies, and many on Saturday talked about the news avalanche of politics and gender issues in the past year.

Mayor Bill De Blasio cited 200,000 as New York City's official number in a tweet on Sunday morning: "It was the one year anniversary of one of the greatest protests in American history, and it was a promise to keep the fight going".

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Maggie Kim was one of the more than one hundred people who didn't let the rain and cold deter them.

Longoria, who starred in TV's "Desperate Housewives", told marchers their presence matters, "especially when those in power seem to have turned their backs on reason and justice".

"We want to remind people of those women who came before us who went to jail, were force-fed, tortured basically so we could have these every day rights", Elizabeth added.

A crowd that included numerous Hollywood stars listened to iconic women's rights attorney Gloria Allred at a rally in Park City, Utah, home to the ongoing Sundance Film Festival.

Marches in Melbourne and Brisbane also attracted hundreds of supporters.

"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. "It's a new era of feminism". "I'm here to support President Trump", Shapiro said.

In the USA, one year after Trump's inauguration, the march was more political with protests against Trump and his administration's policies on health care, reproductive rights, immigration, and other issues.

The march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday took on the feel of a political rally when U.S. Sen.

The worldwide events come at a time of reckoning for many men in Hollywood, media and other industries as women speak out about sexual misconduct in the workplace.

The Wynwood protest wasn't really a march - the demonstrators stuck to the streets in front of the Mana Wynwood Convention Center, many of them relaxing in lawn chairs with umbrellas raised against a fierce South Florida sun.

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