A march against Donald Trump's "anti-women" policy has brought several thousand people to the streets of Chicago when parliamentary elections are due to take place in November.
"Let's go to the polls" : Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday in Chicago against the "anti-women" policy of the Trump government, urging the Americans to vote en masse in the parliamentary elections in early November to turn the tide.
"Vote, your life depends on it! " Every vote, every election, everything counts," proclaimed placards brandished by protesters.
Call to vote
"I would like women to get involved in the mid-term elections," a 23-year-old woman protester, Sarah Sieracki, told AFP. "Women must vote. They have to go out and vote, she insisted.
Associations and politicians set up booths in the center of the third largest city in the United States to attract voters, while a giant balloon representing a Donald Trump in diapers floated above the crowd.
"We want to (...) encourage women to vote," says Jessica Schiller, leader of the Women's March Chicago who organizes the event.
"Women are angry"
Schiller said the recent Supreme Court indictment of President Brump Kavanaugh's presidential candidate, Trump, despite accusations of sexual abuse, had galvanized many women.
"Women are angry and we are starting to feel comfortable with this anger," she said.
The arrival of Brett Kavanaugh, a fierce defender of conservative values, puts the progressive judges of the Supreme Court in a minority - with four judges out of nine - in the temple of American law, which ensures the constitutionality of laws and arbitrates them. most difficult social issues (death penalty, same-sex marriage, right to abortion, environmental protection ...).
The tumultuous confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh, accused by an academic of an attempted rape dating back to an evening between high school students in 1982, intervened in a politically very polarized country, where the mobilization for the #MeToo movement on the issue of sexual assault remains very strong.
"Take back the reins"
The organizers of the Chicago march, which stood under the slogan "Let's go to the polls" (#MarchToThePolls), had planned this rally less than a month before the mid-term parliamentary elections, during which the Democratic Party hopes to regain control of the House of Representatives from the Republicans.
Similar rallies are planned for October in other states, some of which traditionally favor Republicans like Texas, Georgia or South Carolina.
It is, according to Women's March Chicago, to protest against "the anti-women program of the White House and the Republican Party" .
Participants in the Chicago Women's Walk are invited to slip on Saturday after beating the ballot, their ballot at the ballot box, with Illinois allowing voters to vote in advance for those who can not vote on election day.
The organizers ensure that their event does not support any party, even though the funding comes largely from groups supporting the Democrats and a message from Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's unfortunate rival in 2016, was broadcast on a giant screen .
"We want to take over the reins of a government out of control, and give them to officials who can lead us in the right direction," said this week in a press conference Eman Hassaballa Aly, an organizer.