"I am even more shocked than I was three years ago," Kim Elliott, a 40-year-old Washington resident, wrote on a sign. "We all knew that Trump was going to be horrible, and even worse, we don't even realize how much," she told Agence France Press next to her seven-year-old daughter, who was participating , with enthusiasm, at its first "Women's March". Like them, a small crowd of women aged 7 to 77, assertive feminists who came with friends or family and dressed in the pink cap emblematic of these steps, sang behind the White House, in the cold and under fine snowflakes.
In 2017, this parade took place for its first edition the day after the swearing-in ceremony of the New York real estate tycoon, and marked the first great reaction of civil society to his accession to power. The demonstrators were close to 500,000 in Washington and millions across the country to denounce his victory over Hillary Clinton, acquired despite the controversies over her attitude towards women.
Sparse crowd
Three years later, the crowd is sparse in the small square of the American capital from where the march begins. Barely 6,000 people said they participated in the event on Facebook. "I saw smarter cabinets at Ikea", "A woman's place is in the House ... and in the Senate": the political messages rivaled in humor, despite the gravity of the themes addressed.
Lauren Sloniger, a 26-year-old suburban resident of Washington, decided to play on generational irony by sending an “OK Boomer” (“Always the Baby Boomer” in French) to President Donald Trump, 73, who said he did "nothing wrong" in the case that brought him a trial for dismissal from Congress.
Evelyn Yang in New York
"No matter who is the candidate who will face Donald Trump, this person will have to make women's rights a priority to help our great nation," says Rebecca Snell, a young woman dressed in black and wearing a red cap to interpret "The rapist, it's you ”, the Chilean choreography that has become an international anthem against violence against women. "I have conservative friends who are horrified by the attacks on 'Roe v. Wade '", the Supreme Court ruling which legalized abortion in 1973 and which has been weakened since Donald Trump came to power, explains Catherine Stevens, another protester.
On stage, the organizers thanked the participants present despite the breathlessness of the mobilization and unfavorable weather conditions. Rallies have been held in other American cities, including New York, where two thousand people have gathered. In Times square, they were able to listen in particular to Evelyn Yang, the wife of the candidate for the democratic primary Andrew Yang who recently told in the media that she was sexually assaulted by her doctor during her pregnancy.
Evelyn Yang, the wife of presidential candidate Andrew Yang, speaks at the fourth annual Women's March: "Andrew is fighting for big structural change. Putting power back into people's hands. His message is humanity first" https://t.co/06wGS1OgCW pic.twitter.com/oeaTcU1GSn
- CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 18, 2020At the end of the march, everyone is in any case on the same point: if Donald Trump is re-elected in November, the movement will resume like never before.
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