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| Women’s March Returns a Year Later, as Movement Evolves | Women’s March Returns a Year Later, as Movement Evolves |
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| The Women’s March is back. A year after millions of women took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump’s inauguration, marchers will be gathering again this weekend in hundreds of cities across the country and the world, as they build on a movement that has only grown in its ambition. | |
| A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has galvanized activists to demand deeper social and political change. And in the United States, progressive women are eager to translate their enthusiasm into electoral victories in this year’s midterm elections. | A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has galvanized activists to demand deeper social and political change. And in the United States, progressive women are eager to translate their enthusiasm into electoral victories in this year’s midterm elections. |
| Here’s what we’re watching: | Here’s what we’re watching: |
| • Demonstrations are planned on Saturday in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Rome and hundreds of other cities and towns. | • Demonstrations are planned on Saturday in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Rome and hundreds of other cities and towns. |
| •New York participants will gather at 11 a.m. at 71st Street and Columbus Avenue. In Washington, they will assemble at 11 a.m. in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The Los Angeles rally will begin at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time in Pershing Square. | •New York participants will gather at 11 a.m. at 71st Street and Columbus Avenue. In Washington, they will assemble at 11 a.m. in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The Los Angeles rally will begin at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time in Pershing Square. |
| • We will be tracking the events and talking with women about what’s brought them out and their hopes for 2018. | • We will be tracking the events and talking with women about what’s brought them out and their hopes for 2018. |
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| Vanessa Medina, a 32-year-old nurse, didn’t march last January, but came from Clifton, N.J., with her daughter, Xenaya, 11, to participate this year. | |
| “I feel like the revolution is now,” she said, citing the Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment and Republicans’ attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as her reasons for protesting. | |
| “I want equal pay,” Xenaya chimed in. “And equal rights.” | |
| Ann Dee Allen of Wauwatosa, Wis., stood by a vendor table on 60th Street and Broadway, holding a T-shirt and a handful of buttons she had just bought for the demonstration. | |
| “I feel differently about it this year,” said Ms. Allen, 61, who works in communications for a health care organization. “Last year, I just felt kind of angry and impassioned. This year, I feel like I’m in it for the long haul.” | |
| The federal government shutdown that took effect early Saturday did not dissuade marchers from taking to the streets. | |
| One of the sticking points that led to the shutdown — disagreement over extending legal status to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children — has become a rallying cry for organizers. | |
| On the Metro headed to the Smithsonian, participants on their way to the Lincoln Memorial wore the symbolic pink hats that became popular during last year’s march. They carried poster boards scrawled with crayon and marker: “Women work! Women vote!” one read. “Nevertheless, she persisted.” | |
| Michelle Bloom, 52, a Washington teacher, held a sign as her daughter, Jenna, 14, repaired hers with duct tape. She had made it in her mother’s classroom Friday, tracing the handprints of her classmates who couldn’t make it to the march. | |
| “It’s inspiring to see young and old coming together like this,” Michelle Bloom said. But, she added, “I thought there would be more.” | |
| The actress and director Asia Argento, one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, has been mostly vilified by Italian commentators. But the several hundred women who congregated in a downtown Rome piazza on Saturday morning gave her a rousing welcome. | The actress and director Asia Argento, one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, has been mostly vilified by Italian commentators. But the several hundred women who congregated in a downtown Rome piazza on Saturday morning gave her a rousing welcome. |
| “I’d like to see how many of you today acknowledge that you have put up with abuse, by raising your hands. And not just sexual. Abuse of power. Because we are women, because we don’t have power,” said Ms. Argento, as numerous hands timidly rose from the crowd. | “I’d like to see how many of you today acknowledge that you have put up with abuse, by raising your hands. And not just sexual. Abuse of power. Because we are women, because we don’t have power,” said Ms. Argento, as numerous hands timidly rose from the crowd. |
| The women chanted slogans in Italian and English in solidarity with a global sisterhood whose vision “is in sharp contrast with the Donalds of the world and other self-proclaimed geniuses,” said one of the keynote speakers, Loretta Bondi, of Rome’s Casa Internazionale delle Donne, or International Women’s Center. | The women chanted slogans in Italian and English in solidarity with a global sisterhood whose vision “is in sharp contrast with the Donalds of the world and other self-proclaimed geniuses,” said one of the keynote speakers, Loretta Bondi, of Rome’s Casa Internazionale delle Donne, or International Women’s Center. |
| The group American Expats for Positive Change was on hand to urge the mostly American crowd to register to vote for the upcoming midterm elections. | The group American Expats for Positive Change was on hand to urge the mostly American crowd to register to vote for the upcoming midterm elections. |
| “If last year’s march led to the #MeToo moment, I am excited to think what will come next,” said Elizabeth Farren, one of the organizers of the Rome rally. | “If last year’s march led to the #MeToo moment, I am excited to think what will come next,” said Elizabeth Farren, one of the organizers of the Rome rally. |
| “It’s hard to predict. #MeToo has been an incredible thing to watch and observe how the conversation is changing,” she said. The marches, she added, put “a lot of energy on the streets.” | “It’s hard to predict. #MeToo has been an incredible thing to watch and observe how the conversation is changing,” she said. The marches, she added, put “a lot of energy on the streets.” |
| The movement has sustained a high level of energy in the last year. But a rift has also emerged between two groups: the high-profile organization that put on the Women’s March in Washington last January and another group of activists called March On that is focused on electing more Democrats. | The movement has sustained a high level of energy in the last year. But a rift has also emerged between two groups: the high-profile organization that put on the Women’s March in Washington last January and another group of activists called March On that is focused on electing more Democrats. |
| Many activists said they are not aware of the separate groups and are eager for support from both. Read about how the split happened. | Many activists said they are not aware of the separate groups and are eager for support from both. Read about how the split happened. |
| Katherine Siemionko, founder of the Women’s March Alliance, the nonprofit that organized the New York City rally, said she hoped to energize fellow activists for the pivotal election year. | Katherine Siemionko, founder of the Women’s March Alliance, the nonprofit that organized the New York City rally, said she hoped to energize fellow activists for the pivotal election year. |
| “Last year was about women standing together and realizing that they’re not alone,” she said. “The message this year is marching to action: March, register, vote. You’re marching, making sure you’re registered to vote, and getting to the polls.” | “Last year was about women standing together and realizing that they’re not alone,” she said. “The message this year is marching to action: March, register, vote. You’re marching, making sure you’re registered to vote, and getting to the polls.” |
| Read about why New York participants say they’re marching. | Read about why New York participants say they’re marching. |
| Thousands of anti-abortion marchers gathered on the National Mall on Friday, capping off a year in which the president has used his executive powers to curtail abortion rights. | Thousands of anti-abortion marchers gathered on the National Mall on Friday, capping off a year in which the president has used his executive powers to curtail abortion rights. |
| Mr. Trump addressed the march from the White House in a live broadcast to the Mall. | Mr. Trump addressed the march from the White House in a live broadcast to the Mall. |
| “We are with you all the way,” he said from the Rose Garden. | “We are with you all the way,” he said from the Rose Garden. |
| Read more about how the anti-abortion movement has embraced the president and his policies. | Read more about how the anti-abortion movement has embraced the president and his policies. |