People’s March 2025

Photos by Rink

On Saturday, January 18, 2025, multi-generational crowds of protestors gathered in cities across the world for The People’s March (still called the
Women’s March in certain cities abroad, such as London). The largest event took place in Washington, D.C., culminating at the Lincoln Memorial. In San
Francisco, the People’s March began at 24th and Bryant streets in the Mission with a rally afterwards at Dolores Park.

The nationally-led mobilization was organized by a coalition of organizations across the movement landscape through a broad committee structure. The coalition members, in part, include Abortion Action Now,
Time to Act, SisterSong, Women’s March, Popular Democracy in
Action, Harriet’s Wildest Dreams, The Feminist Front, NOW, Planned
Parenthood, the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, the Sierra Club,
and the Frontline. Women’s March anchored the logistics of the mobilization.

The numbers at the marches were not as large as for the first Women’s March and sister marches in January 2017, but the resolve was just the same. Often the marchers, in their dress and via the signs they carried, reflected this year’s theme: the “Day of Resistance.” Their handwritten messages concerned a variety of attacks inflicted by the Trump administration impacting the LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, reproductive rights, climate change, and more.