It all started when a woman’s posted on her Facebook threatening to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s January 20y inauguration in Washington, D.C., the Women’s March on Washington is scheduled for January 21st which has grown now and nearly included more than 100,000 registered attendees—and even more women are expected to turn up for the protest.
“We guess in our heart of hearts that we wanted it to happen, but we did not really think that it would have ever gone this viral,” Teresa Shook, a retired attorney and resident of Hawai, she initially brought up the idea of a women’s march after Donald Trump January 20th inauguration , told theWashington Post. “I have no idea how it got viral and I do not even know how to go viral.”
Apparently, Teresa Shook knows more than what she thinks because her Facebook post gained the attention of nation’s interest overnight. After checking the response, she began to reach out to the strangers who had come to give a hand to help her organize.
Despite they were many difficulties in organizing and planning the march, Washington Post said, it is “expected to be the largest demonstration linked to Donald Trump’s inauguration and a focal point for activists on the left who have been energized in opposing his agenda.”
Over 150,000 women and men have responded to the Facebook post and that they are planning to attend. One Thousand buses are headed to Washington for the march.
“Donald Trump’s election victory for President had triggered a lot of women to involve in the March, which is ironic, because most of us thought that a Hillary presidency would motivate women,” said by Dana Brown who is the executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. She also said that “ lot of women were saying, that the time is theirs, and they are not going to be silent anymore.”
Tamika Mallory is one of the march’s main organizers told to the Post, “Our plan is to make just a bold and clear statement to our country on the national level that we are not going to be silent anymore and we will not let anyone roll back the rights we have fought and struggled to get.”
In the response to the march, Donald Trump Inaugural Committee spokesperson, Boris Epshteyn told to CNN that they are here to hear the concerns of people, and will welcome ‘them’ the side as well.”
(People don’t protest because they want to join your side, pal!)
As for the march day itself:
Organizers said that their plans are on track and after securing the permit from the Washington Police Department to gather 200,000 people near the Capitol on Independence Avenue and Third Street SW in the morning after the Inauguration. Exactly how big the march is going to be has yet to be determined, with the organizers still scrambling to pull together the rest of the necessary permits and raise the $1 million to $2 million necessary to pull off a march triggered by Shook’s Facebook post.
Prepared, or not, thousands of women and their friends, families will head towards Washington to protest the Trump’s agenda on inauguration weekend.
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