Women Descend On Dc A Day After Anarchists Create Chaos

Attendees are "hurting and scared" as the new president takes office and want a greater voice for women in political life, according to the organizers' mission statement. "In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore," the statement says. Police used pepper spray and stun grenades to prevent the chaos from spilling into Trump's formal procession and evening balls. Before Inauguration Day, the DisruptJ20 coalition, named after the date of the inauguration, had promised that people participating in its actions in Washington would attempt to shut down the celebrations, risking arrest when necessary. In Atlanta, protests converged at City Hall and a few hundred people chanted and waved signs protesting Trump, denouncing racism and police brutality and expressing support for immigrants, Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement. In the Pacific Northwest, demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, burned U.S.

 

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