{"id":291163,"date":"2017-01-22T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T07:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/womens-marches-draw-3-million-in-protest-at-trump-presidency\/"},"modified":"2017-01-22T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T07:46:02","slug":"womens-marches-draw-3-million-in-protest-at-trump-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/womens-marches-draw-3-million-in-protest-at-trump-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s marches draw 3 million in protest at Trump presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An estimated 3 million people took part in marches across the United States in protest against Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, exposing\u00a0the depth of frustration and anxiety in a deeply divided country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Half a million people descended on the National Mall and nearby streets Saturday for the Women&#8217;s March on Washington, city officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The march, which began with a Facebook call by a Hawaiian grandmother in the aftermath of Trump\u2019s election victory in November, spurred similar rallies in major cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the movement seeks to raise awareness of women&#8217;s rights and other civil rights, that many Americans fear could be under threat by the new president.<\/p>\n<p>Metro trains into downtown Washington were packed with people headed to the march. Transit authorities said nearly 600,000 people had used the city&#8217;s Metro system by 16:00.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170122\/d4d043c6-445c-4b6c-8552-e1f3ef703683.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters arrive on the platform at the Capital South Metro station in Washington, DC, January 21,&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/22\/507240\/3-million-joined-womens-marches-across-US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 3 million people took part in marches across the United States in protest against Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, exposing\u00a0the depth of frustration and anxiety in a deeply divided country. Half a million people descended on the National Mall and nearby streets Saturday for the Women&#8217;s March on Washington, city officials said. The march, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}