UNDATED (WKZO-AM) — Thousands of Michigan women traveled to Washington Saturday to March following the inauguration of Donald Trump. But there were still many who were left behind who wanted to participate.
One-thousand women rallied in Kalamazoo, hundreds rallied in Saugatuck and Grand Rapids, over were 10,000 in Lansing, 250,000 were in Chicago, 400,000 were in New York and 500,000 marched in Washington, making it the largest demonstration ever at the nation’s capital.
It was all to make it clear that women will fight any attempts by the Trump Administration to push back women’s rights, minority rights and civil rights in general.
There were even reports of anti-Trump marches by women in Paris, London, Australia and Antarctica.
While there were no formal speeches at the Kalamazoo event, gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer headlined the Lansing march.
The March in Washington drew a star studded line-up. The huge crowd heard from Ashley Judd, Gloria Steinem, America Ferrera, Scarlett Johansen, Alicia Keys and two Michigan natives, Madonna and Michael Moore.
Trump’s reaction relayed by tweet was to attack the media for reporting that his crowd on Inauguration Day was not the biggest in history, as claimed by his press secretary, and to dispute claims that the protestors outnumbered those at the inauguration.
Kalamazoo Libertarian Lorence Wenke, who attended both the Inaugural address and participated in the March, says, in his opinion, the protestors far out-numbered those who attended the swearing-in on Friday, calling the march on Saturday the most amazing thing he had ever seen.
Wenke said, by comparison, the event at the Capitol was boring. He said many of the protestors left their placards and signs leaning up against Trump’s Washington hotel, which was right across the street from the place he stayed.
