Paul America

Several hundred thousand people, both women and men, participate in the "march of women on Washington", CNNreports . The demonstration takes place the day after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.

The organizers, including activists of the left -wing parties, feminist and "green" movements, want to draw attention to the problem of women's rights, who, in their opinion, are in jeopardy in connection with the advent of the new US administration. Participants also advocate racial equality, affordable health care and the right to abortion.

Many march participants came in pink hats with cat ears, which have become a symbol of the action. Participants hold posters with demands to protect the rights of women and various minorities.

Many celebrities take part in the march. Among them are singer Katy Perry, Cher, TV star of the series "Walking Dead" Danai Gurira, actress Padma Lakshmi, America Ferrer, Scarlett Johansson. Avenue is a rally on Independence. The audience was welcomed by the mayor of Washington Muril Bauser.

After the rally, a march to the White House is planned. The protests will continue all day.

Washington officials report 1800 buses registered in the city parking lots on Saturday. This means that up to one hundred thousand people arrived to participate in protest only by buses.

On Saturday, almost 700 “female marches” are planned around the world. The first actions took place in Japan, New Zealand and Australia. More than three thousand people participated in Sydney in the march.

In Moscow, several activists took pictures on the Vasilievsky descent with T -shirts in support of the march, reported by the journalist of The Moscow Times Katherine Sheb. “There are no posters. There is no Scandration. (Since Russia). Simply solidarity,” she wrote .

Thousands of people participated in London in the action, the BBC reports . They passed from the American embassy to Grosvenor Square to Trafalgar Square. The demonstrations took place in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster and Liverpool.

The day before, on the day of Trump's office entered, protests were also held . In Washington, an hour and a half before the start of the inauguration ceremony, dressed in black opponents of Trump began to smash the windows and break the glass of parked cars. They arrived in the capital of the United States from all over the country. Many were armed with batons and axes. The windows of network coffee houses, the symbols of the "greedy world of corporations", the chairs and cobblestones flew. Participants in protests turned urns and Veding machines.

To accelerate the demonstrators, the police used tear gas and pepper cans. Six law enforcement officers received slight injuries. The police blocked the cars leading from places of riots to the Capitol of the street and did not allow clashes between opponents and supporters of Trump. More than two hundred protesters were detained.

As the Bauser said, several thousand people went to protest, but only part of them took part in the riots. "Throughout the city, we witnessed hundreds of protesters who showed respect for the laws, expressing their opinion through non -violent protests," she said.

Protests also passed in other countries. In London, on many bridges they hung banners "Build bridges, not walls". A similar slogan was hung on the preserved remainder of the Berlin wall. Trump during the election campaign promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants.

On the day of the inauguration of Trump on the western coast of Jordan, the Palestinians held the march of protest. “If Donald Trump moves the American embassy to Jerusalem, there will be no peace here. If he supports the construction of Israeli settlements, there will be no world,” said the organizer of the action, Palestinian activist Munher Amira.