US, Europe adult in arms opposite Trump
Hundreds of thousands accumulate nearby a US Capitol for protests. PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON / WASHINGTON: Hundreds of thousands of people flooded US cities on Saturday in a day of women’s rights protests to symbol President Donald Trump’s initial full day in office. Tens of thousands some-more took to a streets of London, Paris and other cities opposite a universe chanting ‘dump Trump’ in oneness with US protesters.
In Washington, DC, where a largest impetus was held, ridership on a metro network stood during 275,000 during 11 am, roughly 50% aloft than a same time for Trump’s coronation a day earlier, a WMATA ride management said. Large crowds of women, many wearing splendid pinkish weave hats, poured into downtown Washington by bus, sight and automobile for what was approaching to be a largest of a array of marches opposite a world.
According to Washington’s Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue, organisers upped their initial audience guess from 200,000 to half a million people faced with a inundate of protesters who were stability to flow into a capital’s streets.
Huge sister protests were holding place in cities including Boston, New York, Denver and Chicago where military pronounced a eventuality was altered from a impetus to a convene due to a ‘large throng on hand’.
In London, a mostly womanlike crowd, that also had many group and children, packaged a Trafalgar Square convene in oneness with women-led demonstrations via a US. ‘Our Rights Are Not For Grabs – Neither Are We’ were among a banners hold aloft, along with ‘Make prejudice wrong again’ Organisers pronounced 100,000 attended a London march, nonetheless there was no eccentric corroboration as military do not give an estimate.
In Paris, during slightest 2,000 people collected nearby a Eiffel Tower, holding adult banners that review ‘liberty, equality, sorority’, in a anxiety to France’s inhabitant motto.
In Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam and Geneva too, protesters were barbarous by Trump’s derogative remarks on women. We contingency urge approved values,” pronounced Karen Olson, who organized a Swiss march. “When misapplication becomes law, insurgency becomes duty,” review a ensign hold adult by a Barcelona protester. “Make America lucid again,” review a ensign in Amsterdam.
In Budapest, adult to 400 people collected in oneness with a Washington marchers. “Bridges not walls,” review one of their banners, a anxiety to Trump’s hazard to build a wall separating a US from Mexico to stop migrants from entering a country.
In Berlin, hundreds rallied in front of a US embassy, chanting pro-migrant slogans in a republic that welcomed scarcely a million people journey fight and misery in 2015. “No hate, no fear, immigrants are acquire here,” they cried.
In Prague, criticism organiser Johanna Nejedlova branded Trump’s tongue “hateful”. “We wish to demonstrate a support for values such as democracy, tellurian rights, ecology and women’s rights,” she said.
There were also oneness marches over Europe too, with protests in Johannesburg, South Africa, where marchers hold adult banners reading ‘Black lives matter’ and ‘Love trumps hate’. Anti-Trump protests also took place in Australia with several thousand marching in Sydney and Melbourne. And in New Zealand, hundreds assimilated demonstrations in a collateral Wellington as good as in Auckland.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 22nd, 2017.
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