Saturday, January 20, saw protesters take to the streets from New York to Los Angeles — from Nigeria to Iraq. Various incarnations of the second annual Women’s March demanded social change, promoted female empowerment and declared a resistance to President Trump on the anniversary of his inauguration. With Saturday’s worldwide turnout, you could be forgiven for forgetting that, in fact, Sunday marks one full year since the original Women’s March. Sunday January 21 on it’s anniversary, the Woman’s March organizers made a conscious choice about where to host their flagship anniversary event, it made sense to host the event in Las Vegas, Nevada.
congressional elections in November. Nevada was chosen for its status as a “battleground state that will shape the Senate in 2018,”. Sunday’s event is meant to be the beginning of a national voter registration effort across 10 states, with the goal of registering at least one million people. Sunday’s event was not a march, but a rally, beginning at 10 a.m. at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. The Stadium can hold 40,000, planners expected roughly 17,000. Woman’s March planners are less concerned with crowd size than with spreading their message. Thousands filed into the stadium under clear skies.
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Planned Parenthood; Melissa HarrisPerry, a professor and former MSNBC host; congressman and civil rights era icon John Lewis, D-Ga.; Alicia Garza of the Black Lives Matter movement. . The crowd was “pretty diverse,”. A Native American woman kicked off the day’s speeches, reminding the audience that Las Vegas sits on historic native land and that indigenous women face a disproportionately higher rate of murder compared to their peers. in a sense, political diversity was still limited. Conservative women appeared to be a rarity. The Las Vegas rally, while one of the most prominent of the day, was not the only Women’s March event planned for Sunday, they were many other marches planned throughout the country, making this day a very important day for everyone