[captioning made possible by democracy now!] ♪ amy: this is a democracy now! special, a day after president donald trump is sworn in, millions of women are filling the streets of washington and cities across the globe for an historic day of action. we'll broadcast live from the march on washington for the next five hours. yes, this is democracy now!,

democracy now.org. it's war, peace and the presidency. welcome to democracy now!. i'm amy goodman. we're broadcasting live from washington, d.c. right here at the women's march on washington. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to participate in today's march. millions more are expected to participate in solidarity marches across the world. organizers say at least 600 marches are planned in total, including 18 protests in mexico, another 15 marches, in britain, including one in london where tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out. protests have also been organized in riyadh, in new dehli, hanoi, paris, berlin, prague, copenhagen, madrid, lima, buenos aires, santiago,

cape town, in australia, and in the island nations. some of the marches have begun. in australia, 3,000 people marched in sydney and another 6,000 marched in melbourne. . ny wearing pink hats thousands of people protested in washington, d.c. as donald trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the unitete states. early y friday morning, coordinated actions by black lives matter and other groups shut down multiple checkpoints across washington to block people there attending trump's inauguration. later in the day, thousands clashed with police and riot gear. police deployed pepper spray, tear gas concussion grenades as

they chased crowds of demonstrators through washington, d.c. streets. more than 200 people were arrested. protesters threw bricks and rocks at police in riot gear and set fire to a limousine and then graffiti led with words "we the people." activists, also, some activists smashed windows in a starbucks and bank of america branch. police say six officers sustained minor injuries. overwhelmingly, though, , the protests were peaceful. about 7500 national guardsmen were also deployed to washington, d.c. along with armored vehicles. the huffington post reports president trump also wanted to deploy tanks and missile launchers to d.c. for his inaugural parade but the idea was scrapped by the u.s. military over concer t the tanks would destroy washington, d.c.'s streets. more protests of his inauguration were held across the world on friday.

in san francisco, others were on the golden gate bridge and other activists chained each other to shut down the headquarters of uber. the c.e.o. of uber is on trump's economic advisory team. in nashville, tennessee, protesters used chains to lock themselves to the doors of the tennessee capitol. students walked out of class at colleges across the country, including at indiana university in bloomington, portland state university, the university of north carolina, the university of southern california, the university of minnesota, and temple university in philadelphia. high schools also walked out of class in the los angeles area. crowds of hundreds also gathered in seattle, atlanta, olympia, washington, minneapolis, bososton, and another u.s. cities. protests were also held worldwide including in mexico where activists burnedive bies of trump during a march andnd

protests at the zocalo in mexico city. demonstrators gathered in berlin, germany, holding signs reading "mr. president." hundreds more gathered in tokyo, japan, london, brussels, and outside the u.s. embassy in the philippines capital of manila. 150 anti-trump banners were unfurled in cities across the solidarity reading smashes borders and other slslogans. the w worldwide protests f frid with the president of the united states, the justice to vice president mike pence and chief justice john roberts issued the oath of office to president trump but even trump swearing in was not without protest. activists from pink held signs "build bridges, not walls" and

chanting by not my president" as donald trump was being inaugurated of the 45th president of the united states. after the swearing in, donald trump gave an inaugural address in which he offered an extreme vision of the future of the united s states "the washington post"" reports the address included 24 words never before utterered in any u.s. inaugural address, including the words stolen, trust, disrepair, sad, and carnage. "the new york times" reports hundreds of thousands of people attended trump's inauguration. in 2009 when president obama was sworn in, a record 1.8 million packed the mall for his inauguration. trump took the office of the presidency with a 323% approval rating, ththe lowest of any incoming president in recent u.s. historyry. within mininutes afterer trump' inaugurationon the official whi

house website was completely replaced with nearly every reference to climate change erased from the site. the only remaining reference to climate change on the new white house.gov website appears in the first of his six issues pages which reads, quote, president trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the climate action plan, unquote. the trump administration also took down the white house website's pages on civil rights and a fact sheet on the violence against women's act. the civil rights page was replaced by a page entitled "standing up for our law enforcement community" which calls for more law enforcement, building a border wall, and ending sanctuary cities. it also reads, quote, the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in america is wrong, the trump administration will end it, unquote. less than an hour after his inauguration, president trump signed his first presidential

document, the documents included a waiver allowing retired general james "mad dog" mattis to serve as defense secretary though he's not been out of military for the seven years, formal nominations for trump's cabinet picks and a proclamation for a new national day of patriotism. hours later, president trump signed an executive order making the prompt repeal of the affordable care act his administration's top official priority. he also signed legislation to free the implementation of new regugulations passesed by presi obama in recent weeks. and on friday, the senate confnfirmed the first two trump cabinett m members, retired general james mattis defense secretary and retired geneneral jon kelley as secretary of homeland security. the confirmation of the rest of trump's cabinet has been delayed because of many of the failed to submit the

disclosure forms in time to be reviewed for the office of government ethics ahead of the hearings. the confirmation process has also been slow because trump's cabinet is the richest in u.s. largely of isting white male millionanaires and billionaires whose array of national ties pose unprecedented potential conflict of interest. and those are some of the headlines on this day, this special day of the women's march on washington. this is a democracy now! special, i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we can't tell how many people are here and the special program is just beginning from the stage. nermeen, this is quite astounding. nermeen: it's really amazing for as long as far as we can

see, people are still flooding in to the march and the stage has just started broadcasting what will be a day of music, erformances and speeches and we'll be here for the entire event. amy: we've been looking at the signs, we have women are the wall and trump will pay. then another woman is holding a sign, love is love, black lives matter, climate change is real, immigrants make america great. and women's rights are human rights. all of those issues on one sign, which might have disturbed some of the cnn commentators we were watching yesterday. one of them saying that these people who come to protest, they don't even have a clear

agenda. this reminded me of the criticisms of occupy, talking about war and peace, environments, gay rights, women's rights to reproductive rights, issues of the death penalty and others. some see that as a criticism of these movements but so many others see this as their feeling that they are all of their rights aren't being addressed and want help on these issues. nermeen: i saw another sign that talked about many of the issues people are concerned about in a trump administration. it says, don't normalize hate and then using the term alt right, which of course is associated with chief's trump advisor r steve banon, the extreme white supremacist, a for anti-woman, l for loathesome, t for treacherousness, r for racist

himbings for hateful and t for threatening. . i think we're seeing a large number of people here precisely because there's so many rights that now appear under threat because of trump's inauguration and presidency. amy: i got word we can go to the stage. you can't move an inch here. we have hundreds of thousands, the latest report here, and so many buses coming. let's hear them. people are chanting "yes we can, yes we can." >> they deserve all the applause you can give them. s

[applause] . >> ok. i'll introduce.

>> it's a good thing. stick around. >> good morning! my name is america ferreira. and i'm deeply honored to march with y you today as chair ofof artist table, as a womanan, and

as a proud first generation american born to immigrants. [cheers and applause] >> it's been a heart-wrenching time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. is not rpresident america. is cabinet is nonot america. congress is not america. e are america. and we are here to stay.

we march today for our families and our neighbors, for our future, for the causes we claim and for the causes that claim us. we march today for the moral core of this s nation, against what our new president is waging a war. he would like us to forget the words "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." and instead take up a credo of hate, , fear, and suspicionon o one another. but we are gathered here and across the country and around , mr. rld today to say rump, we refuse!

we we genetic t the demonizatio of our muslim brothers and sisters. we want to put an end to the murder and incarceration of our black brothers and sisters. we will not give up our righght o f face an evil abortion. we will not ask our lbgt families to go backwards. we will not go from being a nation of immigrants to a nation of ignorancece. we won't build walls and we won't see the worse in each other. and we will not turn our backs on the more than 750,000 young immigrants in this country

oca.ently protected by d they are hard-working, upstanding, courageous individuals who refuse to live in the shadows of fear and isolation. they bravely took to the streets to declare themselves and to provide a voice and hope for their communities. today we march with and for hem. together we, all of us, will fight, resist, and oppose every single action that threatens the lives and dignities of any nd all of our communities. marchers, make no mistake, we are, every single one of us, under attack. our safety and freedom are on

the chopping block and we are the only ones who can protect one another. if we do not stand together, march together, fight together for the next four years, then we will lose together. our opposition knows how to stick together. they are united in their agenda to hold this country back and to thwart progress. it is in their slogan. so we, too, must stand united. if we, the millions of americans who have common decency and believe inin a greater good and justice for all, if we fall into the trap of separating ourselves by our causes and our labels, then we will weaken our fight and we will lose. [cheers and applause]

america: but if we commit to what aligns s us, if we stand together, step back and determine that we stand a soul of saving the our country. so let us march together. and at this point we want everyone to take out your cell ones and text "women" to 40649. sign up with us so that we can continue to work together. this is only day one in our united movement. so take out your phone and text "women" to 40649. let's march. ♪

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i i i i will ♪ ♪ every day every minute every second i i i will ♪ cheers and applause] >> hello, martyrs. i'm the executive director of moms rising. my 101-year-old grandma fought for women's rights with the same tough determination that led her to take driving lessons for her 95th birthday. 18-wheeler truck driving lessons. in kitten heels. my great grandma and mom fought

for women's rights, too, and my son and daughter fight today. our nation is generations into this fight for equality, and we are absolutely positively not giving up today. now who out there is a mom? raise your hand. now who out there has ever had a mom at any point in your life ? raise your hand. this is our movement. feel the power. we're black mothers, latino, white, asian, muslim, christians, jewish, and we're mothers of all immigration statuses. we are moms who are differerent abled, tran gender and nonconforming. sometimes we're all these moms in one. together we are an inspiring, spectaculalar, fierce force for change. togegether we are powerful. together, too, we face obstacles. for instance, real facts, goods that show women make 80 cents

to a man's dollar. moms easternble 71 cents to a man's dollar and moms of color earn as low as 46 cents to a an's dollar. our country often claims to worsrship mothers. we've all heard it. in truth, moms face a lifetime of economic risk and 82% of women become moms. together we have the power to change all of this by raising our voices, by sharing our truths, by amplifying each other, we can change our nation for the better. so together we rise. we rise against bullies and teach our children not to bully and bully is not leadership. we are the leaders our nation neneeds right now. we are leading the way to move foreign policy that lifts our

nation, policy like health care, fair pay, childcare, paid family leave, criminal justice reform, gun safety, and police reform, food justice, fair treatment for all families, including immigrant families. .. we will not stop fighting until we win. . we s stand, we rise, we march f each other. the unfair treatment of any singlele one of us hurt all of us. silence. silence i is not an option. our freedoms are intertwined. we rise knowing democracy and justice aren't about one day, one person, one oval office or one election. we stay engaged the easy >we stay engaged in the easy timemes and redoubled on a anotr hard. when i say a word,y you say

rising. moms, community, america. we are rising together. we invite you take what action with us s at wwwww.momsrising. . we are the fears and determined and exclusive-- inclusive leaders are nations need. that challenges we face are unprecedented. we will not be bullied,, we will notot be silenced, we will rise together. i believe in us. thank you. [cheering] >> hey, y'all, how you doing? >> what's up? haro and i ame thefounder for

women's march on washington. >> i'm breanne butler and i'm also one of the global coordinators for the women's march on washington. >> it is o ur utmost honor to introduce to you the president of the national resources suh.se council rehhea >> whoo! look at this! look at us. this is america. we are america. friends, it is such an incredible site, such an inspiration to see so many of us standing here today in solidarity. each one of you is an individual that made a powerful decision, a choice, to be here today.

you took time out of your busy schedules, piled on buses and trains, slept on floors and page are owned way -- paid your own way, because you believe in the fundamental principle that we matter. [cheering] ms. suh: women matter. about will not be shy standing up to what matters to -- for what matters to us. anand here's wt matters s to me. that my daughter and here it -- a world where a healthy environment is a basic right for all o f us. for all of us, no matter where we live, whahat we look like, hw much money we make or how we

vote. or world where the rights of communities and tribal nations ae held first not last and -- world where we don't have to worry about a mosquito bite when we are pregnant or that our children will come down with asthma because of dirty air a world where young people rise up to tackle the greatest single threat to your generation -- climate change. [cheering. ms. suh: that is the world we are marching for today. because right now we are facing a government that is putting polluters first and the rest of us at risk. lint.ook at -- flint. an entire town poisoned by a

government who took a page out of the trump playbook. poisoned by a government looking to cut corners. poisoned by leaders who value their bottom line more than the health of their citizens. poisoned by officialss who s till have not owned up to the damage they have done. can you even imagine, can you even imagine bathing your children in brown water, or the knowledge that the glass of water you gave your daughter has made her sikc? ck? what is happening in flint is a national tragedy. if this new administration gets their way, we could be -- see thousands of more communities suffer the same fate. because, look, that's what anti- government, anti-environmental,

anti-science, pro-polluter rhetoric boils down to. it is real families. real children suffering real consequences. now, look, it may not seem like we as individuals can do much in the face of these threats to our health. our country, our planet. helpless. not we are stillll a democracy. [cheering] ms. suh: and we should never forget our country was created by individuals who stood up for what they believed in. that's what happened nearly 50 years ago when our rivers were catching on fire and our cities were drenched in smog. theicans poured out on to

streets to demand our government in short that we had cleaner, clean water and healthy communities. those earth day marches led to offration's worth environmentatal progress that ts imimproved andnd literally savee lives of millionons. that people engaging in o our democracycy can lead to real change. just look at today. [cheering] whos. suh: it was one woman i suggested that women should march during the inauguration. and look, look at us now. 500,000 people strong. one woman turns into one march

movement. an entire that, that is a powerful thing. strong and ass tough as this administration things that is, we will always be stronger. an even if it does not feel that way, this president works for us. [cheering]] prove that let's our natural world along to no single individual. that clean water has no political party, that no corporation owns clean air. and let's never forget that one personon, one rally, one march, one movement can make all the

difference in the world. thank you, all, so much. [cheering] >> hi, everyone. my name is vanessa wrubel. of the of the cofounders women's march on washington and head of campaign operations. whoo! it is a lot up here. a sea of women in front of me and inin b back of women and onl sides. [cheering] itit just goes to show we are or

own best hope. we can only move forward together. this is my partner. women'sucer for the march on washington. >> and i'd like to introduce my hero, feminist icon gloria steinem. [cheering] ms. steinem: you look great. i wish youou could see yourselv. it is like an ocean. ok, i need to be short, ok? sisistesrs and brothers, all of y you who are before me today and in 370

marches in every state in this country and on six continents. [cheering] ms. be communing with us a at 1:00 n one at 1:00 in a silent minute for eqequality in offices and kitchens and factories, in pri sons, all over the world. i thank each of you and i especially want to thank the hard-working visionary organizersrs of this womenen-le, inclusive march, one of whom managed to give birth while she was organizing is march. who else can say that? thahak you for u understandingg sometimes we must put o o bodies where our police ararea -- b bes are.

sometimes pressing sesend is not enough. us withis also u unifies the many in this world who do not have computers or elelectricity or literacy, but o have the same hope and the same dreams. [cheering] ms. steinem: : i think that i is because ii a and my 11 cochairs, the golden oldies. harry belafonte, ladonna harris, all of these great people. we may be the oldest marchers herere today. so, i've been thinking about the uses of a loong life, and o onef them is that you remember when things were worse. theememember the death of future with martin luther king, with jack kennedy, with bobby

kennedy, with h malcolm x. without those deaths, nixon would not have been elected and there would not have been many of the waars we have had. now our great leaders by barack obama -- [cheering] and michelle obama. are still with us. and remember how much we feared they might not be and how much threat there was on their l liv. andd they are with us. and now our honored bernie sanders is still with us. [cheering] steinem: not only with us but he is focusing on economomic justice and achieviving free universal college education in my state o of new york. now hillary clinton is

alive. [cheering] and definitely not in jail. who t td the wholole world, ththat women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's righghts. soso crucial when collectively violence against femes in the world has produced a world in which for the first time there are fewer females than males. danger tryining to -- the this day ininitiates. trumump and hisandlers hahave found a fox for every chicken coop in washington and a twitter finger must t not become a trigr finger.

e experienced doctors of the e american psyiatric association have publicly "hisen to warn us that widely r reported symptotoms of mental instability, includingng grandiosity, i impulsivity, hypersrsensitivityty to criticis and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality,y, lead us to o questios fitness for the immense reresponsibilities of the offic" this was on full display in his inaugural address yesterday. everything that happened before hand was a disaster. and everything that he would do would be fantastic, the best everer, miracles and all thehe superlative.

he also said he was with the people. indeed, he was thee people. to paraphrhrase a famous quote,i wawant to say i have met the people a and you arere not them. we are the people. just this march in washinington today required 1000 more buses than the entire inauguration. 1000 more buses. [cheering] steinem: i was just talking with people from our many sister marches, including the one in berlin, and they asked me to send a special message. we in berlin know that walls don't work. [cheering] steinem: and remember poland

where lastt month the government passed an antiabortion law and six million women turned out in the streets and they had to change it. [cheering] steinem: we are the people, we have people power. and we will use it. all the power you try to illuminate. for, instancnce, you try to eliminate the congressional ethics committee. you had to reinstate it because of people power. because this, this is the upside of the downside. thisis is an outpouring of enery and true democracy like i have never seen in my very long life. deepp ine e in age, it is diversrsy, and remember,r, the

constitutionoeoes not beginn wih "i the president," it begins with "we the people." don't try to divide us. if you force muslims to register, we will all register as muslims. i know that thehere are women he from corporations and media and all kinds of places that make it kind of risky for you to say wh at you care about, what you feel, and what you support. there are women here, i know, who have survived a national and global sex industry that profiteers from body invasion. bodilyynited here for integritity. if youou cannot conontrol your y

from t the skin in, you cannot control it from the skin out. you cannot control your life, our lives. and that means that the right to decide whether and when to give birth without government interference. [cheering] andsteinem: we are here around t the worldld for d deep democracy that says we will not be quiet, we will not be controlled. we w will work f for a world in which all countries are connected. the details, but the goddess is in connections. we are one with each other. we are looking at each other not up. no more asking daddy. not ranks.ed, we arare

ed. and this is a a day that will change us forever, because we are together. each of us individually and collectively will never be the same again. we, when we elect a possible president, we too often go home. we''ve elected in impossible presidenent. we're never going on. we're staying together -- we're never going home. i thank you from the bottom of my heart. make sure you introduce yourselves to each other and decide what we are going to do tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and we're never turning back. thank you. [cheering] >> hi. i'm teresa short. i am the one whose facebook

event went viral. for making it, happen. thank you, all, for being here. and we can't give up. we have to keep fighting. and i want to give a shout out to my state of hawaii, the state of a localha and diversity. my to my family, to granddaughters who inspired me to do this so that they can grow up and have opportunities available to them, equal to everyone else. for r all women! people.ual rights for allll thank you to everybody who's herere who made this possible.

hi, everyone. theame is bob bland, i'm cofounder and cochair of the women's march on washington. the podium with my daughter today, chloe, who's only, a and the reason why is marche the birth of this also coincided with ththe birthf my daughter. my daughter and my other daughter pennyny, six yeas old, to know that women, whehene come together collectively, we can transform the world. [cheering] are breaking down the walls betetween each other

toyy and standing united in solidarity for our rights and for the rights of the most marginalalized among us. his grassroots movemenent, we havee over 600 sister marches worldwide. 3 million people around the globe marching with us today. in a phone call early on with our state and national king told usernice that the women's march is a pivotal l opportunity for us toe at the foforefront of healing ad elevating the consciousness of this nation. together, we will show a new face of america, a spectrum of color, consciousness and inclusiveness like. never before. when we march to the white house

in a few hours, , it won'n't bee end. this is just the beginning of a movement. we are co-creating together with women at the center of it. and i want you to know, standing up here today that any of you can be an activist, any of you can be an organizer because before this march began, i had never done anything like this. so, you can do it, too! [cheering] to go back: i beg you to your local communities, to partnener up with people that you've never talked toto before, to have conversations here today that you would have never experienced otherwise, and to it galvanize few over the next 18 months and the next four years.

100 days of this administration are a critical time for our voices to be heard. so, i want you to start with one simple first step. we want you to write a post card your elected officials and community leaders at the federal state and local levels about what matters to you most and how you're g going to continue to fight in the days, weeks and months to come. there will be volunteers handing out postcards at the finish line of this march, and we'll have them available for anyone to print online. our lives, bodies, and freedoms are at stake. and so are the safety and vitality of our communities. our elected officials need to hear about it from you. this is just the first of 10 actions we are going to take a collectively and the first 100 days of this administration.

tomorrow is not about hanging up your marching boots. it is time to get your friends, family and community together and make history. join us in sending a powerful message to this new administration at fighting for jusustice. ♪

[drum beat] ♪ >> [rapping, indiscernible] ♪ one more round. ♪ beautiful people. ♪ the people believe what they see on tv the powers that be ♪ we'll break down the walls till our people are free ♪

[rapping in spanish] ♪ the revolutionary band. [rapping in spanish] ♪

>> we will say justice black and borown, power native aristocracies are not monopolies. ♪ no human, n o life is property humans in harmony relationships reciprocity we will love who we love and who we want to be ♪

our unified power cannot be defeated ♪ [rapping in spanish] ♪ be the change that you want to seeee ♪ powerified cannot be defeated ♪

be the change that you want to see powerified cannot be defeated ♪ lastirst shall be the ♪ be the change be the change be the change ♪ my revolutionaries at? we got a change things, y'all. >> take the lead. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. the first shall be the last the last -- ♪ >> love is the strongest force in the universe. keep shining, y'all. poetry, people.

black melanie campbell, women's lives, how you doing? why we march. we march declare we are ready for the fight. we the black women's roundtable, national active network and all of our sisters and the movement stand in solidarity with all of you. 300,000 strong. and we are here to declare, we are america! [cheering] stay woke. and we will not be moved. in memory of our sister

dr. dorothy irene height. amelia --isholm, and sojourner truth. motherh in memory of f my janet campbell who was a retired public school l teacher and alll our mothers and fathers to protect our neighborhood,. quality publicic schools across our nation whoarch for black women voted 94% for hillary clinton. [cheering] won 3 ru y the million votes over her opponent, and they say she lost the electoral college. i need your help

on this one my sisters and my brothers, we march even for the 53% of white women who voted for that other guy. theeflect and join us on bus moving forward to break that glass ceiling to a >> first woman president of the united states of america -- to elects the first woman president. and to appoint a black woman to the supreme court in our lifetime. while we march, we march to protect obamacare, medicare, social security for our seniors, medicaid for people living in poverty, and we march for the human right to control our own bodies. we march for the human right to just live. wages,h for the living

paid family leave. we march to protect black colleges and black businesses, lb lgbtq rights, and disability rights. and we march for freedom of religion. and freedom of the press. a message toend the white house, congress, state and local politicians that we are united and we will not be m oved. so, before the cut the mic off on me, i want you to repeat after me. we march for women's rights. >> we march for women's rights. >> we march for human rights. we are ready for the fight. >> we are ready for the fight. >> we march for the least of these, god's children. love trumps 'cause -- >> hate! march organizers,

my sisters and my brothers. [cheering] >> good morning. i'm roslyn brock and i chair the national board of directors of the naacp. [cheering] an organization whose principal founder was a white woman named mary whitite elvington.n. the naacp stands with you today nonpartisany, as a organization of over half a million members across the lengthth and breadthth of this nation andnd 50 states, germany and j japan, to declare that women's rights are human rights. [cheering] we send a message to

ournew government that we will not stop u until women enjoy equal status. to -- throughout the historory of this nation, women have workrked to achieve full civil rights and have serveded as a constant of this nation -- the conscience of this nation. in 2008, 2012 and 2016, black women exercised the right to vote larger than any other group in this nation. [cheering] despite: however, our bestst efforts, we learned a hard lesson in this last presidential electction. elections have deep and lastingg consequences. especially for those who do not vote. the silence in america has been

deafening for black women in our family who also feel forgotten and left out ofof a prosperous society. for centuries, we had been overlooked and most oftentimes left behind. even in the movement to advance women's rights. and so, i call upon you my sisters, in the words of my ancestral shero, sojourner truth. ain't i a woman? [cheering] brock: -- change agents for transformation. we must stand united to oppose the presidenent's nomineeeesor u.s. a attorney general, secrety of education, health and human services, and labor. we must also fight to ensure

y women, rights gained b minorities, the lgbtq community and immigrants are not destroyed by an administration ththateems bound and determined to take this nation back to a place where we are a house divided against ourselves. youso, mymy sisters, i ask the risinge face son of a new day begun, let uss boldly declare to this administration and to this nation that we will organize, we will fight, and we will march on till victory is won. [cheering] ms. brock: because courage will not skip this generation.

courage will not skip this generation! courage will not skip this generation! peace and power! >> peace and power! [cheering] got handed a public service announcement. if everyryone will take out ther phones and text "women" to 40649 . that's women to 40649. i did this before i got on stage, it took 10 seconds. if you take a moment and text women to 40649, give us your name and email and we could be in touch about the important steps and how you can help. once you are done sending or s, so, raise your phone your neighbors know you have pledged to be a part of this cause.

and now let me tell you who i am. i'm not just your commercial break. bob alotta, i'm e executivive director of the astraea lesbian foundation for justice. astreaa hasears, been in the front line supporting lgbtq in the united states and around the world. i've not here to talk to about 40 years, i am here to talk to you about today, right now. we may be here because of something or someone we did not choose, but

march, together together. that is what this time is about. what we are going to choose. because in a week from now, a-month from now, four years from now we would have been inundated by messaging, not just tweets, but a barrage of public sentiment, images and articles subtle and overt -- and our values and our choices will be tested. we will have to make choices every single day in the days, come, months and years to we will need to become our own collective moral compasses. we will need to become our own northstar. around here look all day long and you are moved by the beauty and diversity and passion of all of the folks around you, remember this -- we chose to come together today and all of our power. not choosend we will one neighbor over another. we do not and we will not choose to deny our lesbian, gay or tans

in order to be in a march for women or a country for everyone. we do not and we will not deny the beauty andnd power and joy n brownness as and if it will make us safer or any more sane in a country that has proven otherwise over and over again. we will not hide behind our whiteness because of the vestigeses of privivilege that o this day services a system memet line thed the will and pockets of a few men who would have us all believe there is superiority in our state, just to keep us from knowing the power of truly being in shared humanity. choose any one

person's notion of god to the fine every single one of our divine possibilities. and surely not our secular and public rule of law. we will not choose some of our rights over all of our rights. because we choose to know b etter, to do better, to be better and to lovee better. now, let me talklk to you about love. i might be wonderful but i know i got chosen to be up here as a resident homosexual, or one of them, anyway. so, what do you need with a big old queer like me? i think it is to talk about radical love. to stand here on this stage right now and proclaim my mosttment to love in the

radically honest way possible, for us all right now to commit to doing so. so, let me queer our collective notion of love right now, so that every one of us will step papast the easy, the scripted, e sanctioned, the familiar, the state notions of love and let us choose the pathway to not only the greatest possibility but the greatest rewards. not a fluke. this is not a singular phenomenon. we are fantastic and fabulous. and this is only the beginning. [cheering] no, this is not an one-off. this is an uprising, this is an

uprising of love. say it, we are in uprising of love. we are an uprising of love. we are an uprising of love. choose it everyday. [cheering] >> hello, women's march on washington! is ariel bowser and -- the mayorser and i am of washington, d.c. to welcome you all to your nation's capital and the best city in the world. 51st state.be the to let you be here

know that washington, d.c., has a chick mayor. alli'm here to speak for the women elected officials, the women will tell you that we are more harsely criticized, more frequently criticized and we e e more wrongly criticized at every singngle level. be it the school board, the statehouse, or candidate for the president of the united states. more harshly, are more frequently and more wrongly foricized, we speak out women and neighborhoods and families and public education. we need every woman and every man to speak up for us, too. in washington, d.c., we are

little unique. we're a city, a county and the state. we are 680,000 people strong. single votet have a in that capitol building. and that in justice must end. already an embolden congress continues to threaten the rights of women. year to year, they tell us we cannot use our own money to support low income women and their healthcare. and now they want to make it permanent. you tell them to leave us alone. leave us alone! leave us alone! >> leave us alone! leave us alone!

bowser: when the president needed help with congress, he counted on mayors. and mayors have to stand up for immigration and reproductive rights, for lgbtq writes. we have to stand up to fight climate change from the mayor's office. to stand up for public education because that is what our kids need. so, let me just say this. consistent to what we tell the congress and this is what you should tell them from your state. the best thing the federal government can do for us is leave us alone! [cheering]

we today of every color -- and belief are gagathered here a and a demonstration of te american story. today, you might feel scared. and i know w what it feels likeo be scared win an di'd i'm a rape survivor. after my rape i felt despair but aalso felt -- so when i met broken criminal justice system, i told many survivors to find cantheir untested rape kits be destroyed, i rewrote the law. [cheering] win: together with a team called rise, we organized and we

did the impossible. assaultd the sexual survivors bill ofof rights unanimously to congress. i wrote it as a matter of survival. and if that bill could speak, it would scream, sing from the pages, light itself on fire. and i it represents the endleses pursuit of a more perfect union. that is what i did with my fire. what will you do with yours? [cheering] win: you may not feel powerful right now. but here's what i learned. in america, no one is powerless. when we come together. no one can make us feel

invisible when we demand to be seen. to any survivor and allies listening, you are not alone. wherever you are from and what ever bringngs you here today do not lose hope, don't just march. go home and join the movement at rise now.u.s. that's risenow.u.s. state by state, we need you. promiseencnce here is the of america, and we are planting seeds to trees we may never sit under, but today, onone million heartbtbeats are marchching together. ourr souls are on fire. that fire ablaze.

remember your power. we, w who have fire in our bone, we on breakable, unconquerable souls, rise. let me hear you say it? rise rise rise! rise up! thank you. [cheering] to make an announcement. please pay attention for one second. kate stroud from charlotte, north carolina, who is blind, has been separated from the people she came with -- she's in a pink hat, a pink cane. if you came with kate stroud, she is on stage right. come to the back of the stage. again, kate stroud to the back of the state. she's safe.

we just want to reunite her. thank you. [cheering] >> hello! believable. look at this. i can't even see the end of the crowd. un believable. we're going to have one million people here today. look at this. is michael moore. ok. we got through day one. two now.day of the trump tragedydy.

wants to be in my next movie? [cheering] moore: so, i woke up this morning, picked up "the washington post," and the headline read " trurump takes power." i don'n't think so! here's the power. here's the majority of america right here! we are the majority. new p president vows to end american carnage. mr. trump, we are here to vow to end the trump carnage.

[cheering] moore: i'll pick that up later.r. rerecycle. reporter asked me on the way up the stairs here, what do you hope to accomplish with this demonstration? wel i would sayl if you, just look that way, we have already accomplished it. the majority of americans did not want donaldd j. trump in the white h house. and we are here today as their representatives. ok. i don't want to

you had d a lot of great speakes are today. i got to listen to gloria steinem. how cool was that? i would like to give you a to do list of what we call can do starting immediately. real things that we can do. are you with me on this? i'm going to go through them very quickly. take notes, but i will post them on my facebook and twitter and you can follow it therere. but wewe have to get busy, folk. we have got her work cut out for us. number one, this is what i want you to do. i want to make this part of your new daily routine. call congressto every single day, everyday. onech of you u have representative in the house and two senators.

they have a phone number. i am going to give you that number right now. are you ready? it is easy to remember. 202-2255-3121. can you repeat that with me? ready? 202 >> 202 >> 225 >> 3121 >> 3121. mr. moore: you do it. go. >> 202-225-3121. mr. moore: what are we going to do with a number? when are we going to call them? every day, that's right. every day. it is so easy. if you're watching this at home, there is a h human being that answers the phone. they pick it up. even if you do not know who y yr memember of congress is,s, givem your zip codode. they'll connect you to the office. it is that easy. it will take two minutes.

goingay, i and oththers are to be posting things for y you o callll congress to d do. and tell, call them your senators and you get them in the same number, we do not ourpt betsy devos as secretary of education. some water?? 202-225-3121. post, this s is my commitment to you. every day, i will post something on f facebook or twitter. other groups are doing the same thing. resistance.org. go to them. indivisible. lots of groups are doing this. follow thehem and call, call yor

member of congress, call the two senators. you know what? i i the two other days c call yr state representatives s and your state senator on the other day. i'm telling you, these calls work. when they tried to get rid of a government congressional office of ethics two weeks ago, we gtot and the switchboard was overloaded. we shut it down with phone calls they two hours later, pulled back from closing the office of government and congressional ethics. that is how powerful you are. make it a part of your daily routine. number one, wake up. number two, brush your teeth. number three, make the coffee. number four, walked the dog.

you have a cat, start at it. number five, what you going to do? call congress. make it part of your day -- do not even think about. everyone of us are doing it every day, they will not know what hit them. the second thing i'm going to ask you to do, join. join, join, join groups. join narrow. join a group. i was thinking this morning while i was writing this up, i supported planned parenthood forever. i contribute to them. i've donone fundraisers for tht but i've realized, i've neverer joined. so this morning i joined planned parenthood. who among y you will join plann harntehood?

[cheers and applause] >> aclu? the environmental groups? join every group. creates make these groups huge! michael: bernie! huge! number three, number three, you need to form y your own persona rapid response team. all it takes is five to 10 family members and friends. the people you're going to call or text or send an email to on any given day where we have to move fast, everybody here, who will fororm rapid response team, five to 10 people? heers and applause] michael:

earlier -- there's a group here, a rapid response team here 4 from asheville, north carolina, nine of them, where are you? the asheville nine. the asheville e nine. and i s said to thehem, how man you have been to a demonstration before in d.c.? eight! eight of the nine had never been to a protest before in washington, d.c.! eight of the nine are new for the first time. how many here are here for the first time in d.c.? look at this. at a protest! look at this! wow! number five, we have to take over the democratic party. god bless the democrats who

have fought with us, who have done so many good things. itit's no knock on them.. but if you're coaching the women's basketball team, twice in 16 years, my friends, we've won and then lost. we've let this happen twice now in 16 years where we win the white house but they walk through the door. are you going to let this happen again in your lifetime? i'm not. i'm sorry, but the old guard of the dememocratic party has to g it has to go. we need new leadership. we need young leadership. we need women leadership. we need people of color. we need gay and lesbian and . sexual and transgender i support keith elson as the

new d.n.c. chair. he i is a grgreat organanizer a nly muslim member of congress. number six. to you from m e blue statate an the blue cicies. don't feel alolone. you haveve a job too do. we're going to look t to you o these next, let's just say months. i heard on the radio this morning that las vegas has already placed odds on how long trump is going to last in ffice. they only give him 4-1 odds to last only six months. that's pretty good. you have to form regions of resistance.

what that means is s this -- fo the young people, let me g give you a little history lesesson. roe v. wade, that made abortion legal l in this country in 1973 did not happen in a vacuum. it did not happen by itself. it happened because our two largest states in 1970, threree years earlier, , made abortion legal. new york and californinia. because abortion was legal in those two large states for three years, they helped to create the new normal. the new normal being a woman has a right to control her internal organs and what goes on in there and it's not the job of the government. so new york, you have a job to do right now, california, minnesota, massachusetts,

actutually all of new england, the entirire west coast. you're a regioion of resistancn. virginia, you're a region of esistance. in virginia this is how we retake back the south. we start in virginia. form your region of resistance and what you have to do in these states. you have to create laws that show the rest of the country what it looks like to have health care for all, what it looks like to not have mass incarceration. what it looks like to pass laws that prohibit discrimination and employment for gays and lesbians and others. showow the r rest of america ho works. if you're e a city in a red state, you live in detroit, god, that's paininful to say, that michigan is a a red state.

but you live in a blue city in michigan, you live in travevers city, michigan, a little town, bernie got 70% of the vote inn that little town. form your region of resistance there. say to the people e in power, y are not going to come to my city and take my mexican brothers and sisters away. i will stand in fron of you. nonviolently and peacefully. the other night i asked 30,000 people in new york city who will join me to block the george washington bridge, the holland tunnel and the lincoln tunnel if the federal government comes to o take our mexican brothers and sisters away? 30,00000 people said i will do it! yoyou have to be willing to put yourself on the liline. it's that important.

the next thing on the to-do list, you have to run for office! you, yes, you! now, i can see youour faces. no, no, mike, not me. i'm shy. this is not the time for shy people. shy people, you have two hours to get over it. if you knew me, seriously, if you knew me personally, you have no idea how shy and what an intro vert i am. i know i idoesn't make any sense to be saying that but if you knew me, does anybody know me back there? how true is this? when i was 18 years old, i was a senior in high s school. and i coululdn't stand the prprincipapal or the assistant principal and their backwards ways. i decided to run for school board. i was only 18.

i called up the city clerk, i said, w what do ii got to do to run for school board. he said, well, you need to get names on a petition. oh, um, how many names do i need on the petition to run? 20. 20! to run for school board? 20. i'm like i know 20 stoners who will sign n anything. i said i got the 20 sigignature i ran. i won. i became the first 18-year-old in the state of m michigan to w public offffice. i did this. i am shy. i only went on two dates in high school. i did thihis. you can do this. who is going to run for office? run for city council. run for school board. hey, ok, ok, wait, wait, wait. shy people, there's an office

-- you, precinct tell get precininct delegegate. you only have to go to the county convention once a year. who will run for precinct delegate? all right. next on the to-do list, when we take over the d.n.c. -- >> michael? michael: ashley? ashley: my name is ashley judd and i'm a feminist and i want to say hello to independence avenue in the back, all the way , and i 7th street bring you words from nina donovan, a 19-year-old in middle tenennessee, and she has given me the privilege of tetelling you what she has to s . a nasty woman.

i'm not as nasty as a man who looks like he bathes in shito dust, a man whose words are a electoral college e sanctioned hate speech contamininating thi nanationalnthem. i'm not as nasty a as confedera flags being tattooooed across m city, and the south is goioing rise again, maybe for some, , i never really fell.l. blacksks are stillll in shackle and d graves just for being black. slavery has been reinterpreted as the prison system in front of people who seek mel anen as animal skin. i am not as nasty as awastika painted on a pride flag. and i didn't know devils could be resurrected, but ii feel

hitler in these streets, a mustache traded for a tu pay -- tupe aye, nazis renamed the cabinet electroconversion therapy, the new gas chamber shaming the gay out of america, turning rainbows into suicide notes. i am not as nasty as racism, fraud, conflict of interest, homophobia, sexual assault, transphobia, white supremacy, misogyny, ignorance, white privilege. i'm not as nasty as using little girls like pokemon before their bodies have even developed. i'm not as nasty as your own daughter being your favorite sex symbol.

like your wet dreams infused with your own genes but yeah, loud, nasty woman, a vulgar, proud woman. i'm not nasty like the combo of trump and pence being served up to me in my voting booth. i'm nasty like the battles my grandmothers fought to get me into that voting booth. m nasty like the fight for wage equality. scarlet -- scarlet johansson, why were the female actors paid less than half of what the male actors earned last year. see, even when we do go into higher paying jobs, our wages are still cut with blades sharpened by testosterone. why is the work of a black woman and a hispanic woman worth only 63 and 54 cents of a

white man's privileged daughter? this is not a fememinist memess. this is inequality. so we are not here to be debunked. we are here to be respected.. we are here to be nasty. i'm nasty. like my bloodstains on my bed sheets we don't actually choose if and when toto have our periods, believe me, if we could, some of us would. we don't like throwing away our favorite pairs of underpants. ell me, why arere pads and tampax still -- that was a brand name. why are tampons and pads still taxed when viagra and rogaine is not? is your election really more

than protecting the sacred messy parts of my womanhood is the bloodstain on my jeans more embarrassing than the thinning f your hair? i know it is hard to look at your own entitlement and privilege. you may be afraid of the truth. i am unafraid to be honest. it may sound petty bringing up a few extra cents. it adds up to the pile of change i have yet to see in my country. i can't see. my eyes are too busy praying to my feet hoping you don't mistake eye contact for wanting physical contact. half my life. i have been zipping up my [beep] hoping you don't think i

want to unzip your jeans. i am unafraid to be nasty ecause i am nasty like suzanne , elizabeth, eleanor, amelia, rosa, gloria, condoleezza, onja, michelle, hillary. and our pussues ain't for grabbing. they're for reminding you that our walls are stronger than america's ever will be. our pussies are for our pleasure. they are for birthing new , vulgar, of filthy nasty, proud, christian, muslim, buddhist, you name it,

for new generations of nasty women. so if you a nasty woman or you love one who is, let me hear you say hell yeah! hell yeah! hell yeah! i love you! thank you! cheers and applause] >> i am an american muslim woman. a daughter of immigrants.

a person of color. a community organizer, and a civil rights lawyer. i, like you, am proud to work to be among donald trump's worst nightmares. zarah, and i speak on the council of islamic c relations or care, the nation's largest american muslim civil rights organization. today i mararch for every perso who has madede sacrifices and supported me in a a country whe many like us are targeted. we s stand tall because we stan on the shoulders o of giants. our mothers and grandmothers

long arted this fight before today. we march so that women younger than us can grow up into a better wldld. we are unafraid and will not be silenced. i, and american muslims like me are committed to putting our faith into actionon. we live and breathe the understanding that justice cannot bee for just us. that our liberation is interconnectcted, that we c can be free at each other's expense or if any of us remains targeted. when muslims a are harassed by ththe f.b.i., when our lbgtq

friend are attacked in hate crimes, when our b black brothe and sisters are gunned down b b police officers, when what is left of native land continues to be stolen, and when unundocumented individuals amon us are targeted, my heart hurts. we all hurt. ut we arere also fired d up. our americaa, , our america inclcludes all of us in our beautiful, diversese city. our america requires that we march to protect e each other. our americica needs us to build better future. we have our work cut out for us but we are ready. this is the time to roll up our

sleeves, to be courageous, and to be radical. leave here prepared to put in meet your muslim neighbors. videotape police officers, interrupt racism. hold the media accountable.. and mama your pubublic o offici hear you. commit to taking action every single day. make resistance your lifestyle. this march isn't about me or any of the other speakers or organizers. the about all of you and communities you represent so thank you for being here and for being such an inspiration d for joining us together in

strength, unity, and action. [cheers and applause]. ♪ >> and i'm here to bring you my war cry. the song is written in five languages. and it's a song calling out we may come together in justice, in healing, in freedom, in love! ♪ ♪

>> i want you to put your hands together. we're going to go up to the ancestors and ask them for help on this journey for justice. ♪

>> one more time, y'all. put your hands together again. we're going to send the message of

we are a nation in shadows. once buried our warriors, gave them trails and relaxing names, tears been sung. could you hear our war cry from the top of the mountain. knew we were coming and felt it. we snap our tongues, head our words in the dust, almost forgotten. fear has quieted our voices no longer. we will sing our way home. we're breaking ground. they will fear us. we will sing our way home. we've been given the power of words and we will use it. we will use it. we will use it! we will use it! we will use it! ♪ >> our comrades from the song. war cry! hold on. we are coming. hold on. we are coming.

yeah. hold are coming ♪ on. hold on. yeah. whoo ♪ ♪ whoo hold on hold on eah ♪ ♪ >> peace and love y'all, in the spirit of justice. >> this is democracy now! coming to you live from the women's march in washington where organizers s say the crow runs from third street to 17th

street along independence avenue. we're going to bring you back to the stage and to the . eakers van jones is joining us. van: my name is van jones. 'm with the love army. i i just want you to know yesterday was a hard day. and when i saw the president flying away in that helicopter, i felt like something beautiful was dying. and i felt something we had all worked for and we had all given our hopes and our dreams to was dying. and yet with every breakdown, a

breakthrough is possible. and today because of you, sosomething beautiful is being reborn in america. something beautiful is being reborn right here and right now. you know, when we started the love army, i'm here as a private in a love army. when we started the lovee a arm people actuaually started hatat n the love army. they said love, that's some weak stuff. they said love, i don't want to be a part t of somee weak k lov thing. love is weak in yourur life, you've got a problem, get off tindr and

grin a and get some real love. it's the strongest stuff in the universe. the love army in this movement is built on that mama bear love. that mama bear lolove those cub and that mama bear isn't going to let you mess with those cubs and this movement is not going to let you mess with the muslims. this movement is not going to let you mess with the dreamers, president trump. we're not going to let you mess with women. we're not going to let you mess with the earth. we're not going to let you mess with black lives matter. this movement, this movement is based d on that kind of loveve. and let me say something, when you have a movement b based on that kind of lovove, you can ta to people on both sides of the aisle. we love the conservatives enough to tell them that they have to be better conseservativ than this. you h have to be better

conservativeves than this. real conservative loves the constitution. we have a presidedent who seems to be an authoritarianan. real conservatives stand up for and believe in clean government. we have a president who seems to be committed to a clep stock recent. -- cleptocracy. we have a president that doesn't seem strong for america but seems weak for russia. conservatives, you've got to do better than this. stand up to trump as conservatitives and be better conservatives than this. we love you enough to tell you that. and we also love you enough to progressives, nd we got to be betttter liberals and better progressives. we do. say ired of hearing us

love trump hates but sometimes sound more hateful than trump. i'm tired of us,s, and i've bee guilty of it, putting down all the red state voters and saying they're all stupid and uneducated. we have to stop that. just because somebody made a bad vote doesn't make them a bad person and it's not going to make us into bad people either. i'm not going to o let a bad vo become bad people. we're going to fight for them anyhow. we're going to fight for their dignity anyhow. we'll fight against them on the bigotry but fight for their justice and dignity as well. this movement the opportunity to stand up for the underdogs and red states and the blue states, to stand up for the muslims and dreamerers and blac folks but also to stand up for cocoal miners who will be throw under the busby donald trump. we're going to stand up for

them! ! all l those rust belt workers he's a about too mess over, we' going to ststand over them and have to have a position that's clear. when it gets harder to love, let's love harder. when it gets harder to love, let's love harder. i saw thahat movement. ththey came intoto t town yeste. they had red hatats on. they were proud of their accomplishments. and they thought they had taken america back. what they never counted on was a million women in pink hats that are going to take america forward. thank you very much. thank you very much. love army! cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, my name is

bria baker and i'm natasha williams and we are national organizers. yea! >> whoo! >> and it is our honor and privilege to bring the next speaker to the stage, the one and only author and activist, anet moss. >> i love you. so we are here. we are here not merely to gather but to move, right? and our movements require us to do more than just show up and say the right words. it requires us to break out of our comfort zone and be confrontational. it requires us to defend one another when it is difficult

and dangerous. it requires us to truly see ourselves and one another. i s stand here today as the daughter of a native hawaiian woman and a black veteran from texas. i stand here as the first person in my family to go to college. i stand here as someone who has written herself on to this stage. to unapologetically proclaim i'm a transwoman writer, activist, revolutionary of color. and i stand here today because of the work of my forebearers from sylvia to ella t to ozzie fromm harriet t marsrsha. i stand here today most of all because i am m my sister's eeper.

my sisters and siblings are being beaten and brutalized, neglected and invisiblized, extinguished and exiled. my sisters and siblingngs have been pushed out of hostile homes and intolerant schools. my sisters and siblings have been forced into detention facilities and prisons and deeper into poverty. and i hold these harsh truths close. they enrage me. and fuel me. but i cannot survive on righteous anger alone. today, by being here, it is my commitment to getting us free that keeps me marching. our approach to freedomom may n e identical but it must be ntersectional and inclusive.

it must extend beyond ourselves. i know with passing certainty that my liberation, my liberation is directly linked to the liberation of the undocumented translatina yearning for refuge, the disabled student seeking unequivocal access, the sex worker fighting to makake her living safely. collective liberation and solidarity is difficult work. it is work that will find us struggling together and struggling with one another. just because we are oppressed, just because we are oppressed does not mean we ourselves do not fall victim to enacting the same unqushes policing, shaming, and erasing. we must return to one another with greater accountability and commitment to the work today by being here. you are making a commitment to

this work. together we are creating a resounding statement, a statement that stakes a claim on our lives and our loves, our bodies and our babies, our identities and our ideals. but aa movement, a movemement i so much more than a march. a movement is that difficult space between our reality and our vision our liberation depends on all of us. all of us returning to our homes and using this experience and all the experiences ththat have shaped us to act, to organize, to resist. thank you. >> hello, i'm sister simone

campbell, one of the nuns on the bus and honored to be here today. we have traveled this nation, met many of you, but i must say sight like en a this. all of us together in one place. hat is very scriptural, if those who remember the christian scriptures, they say we are gathered in one place, frightened, afraid, afraid to go out and then a mighty y wind came, a mighty wind that stirred the hearts and lifted the courage and let people know we're not alone. we're together. we're together regardless of our faiths, regardless of the

color of our skin, regardless of who we confine as neighbor. we are all neighbors to each other and that is the deep truth that our nation was founded upon. we are our sister's keepers. we are our brother's keepers. it is that truth that will help us to mend the gaps in our society. it's that truth that will get us to heal president economic divide where those at the top keep

wealth. we the people can bridge this gap. we can bridge the gap of race and division where african-americans and whites and hispanics and sikhs and muslims and arabs and all of us share the one story that underneath whatever skin we have, it's all red sinew and blood and passion and engagement and bridging the divide sucking the life out of us. so my friends, can we commit in this moment to exercise joy, to claim our passion, to have curiosity about our neighbors, . d then share it around because if we each do our part, we the people, we the people will triumph. we t the people are what the nation needs and we the people will make the give. -- make the difference. let's do it together.

we the people. >> hi, how's everyone doing today? because we're feeling really y good! any name is alisa klein and i'm the social media manager for the women's march on washington. >> and i'm one of the youth coordinators for the women's march on washington and this is shawn. and it is an absolutee honor to cecil ce our friend, richards, the president of lanned parenthood. >> thank you. hello, washington!

you are a beautiful sight. it is an honor to be here on behalf of the one in five women in america who have been to planned parenthood for health care. i wishsh every single one of th could sesee y you. youu a are a beautiful sight, although some folks in congress, a terrifying one. we're here today too thank generations of organizerers and troublemakers and hell-raisers who formed secret sisterhoods, who opened p planned parent health centers in their communities s and demanded the right to control their own odies. and today we're here to deliver a message, , we're not going to take this lying down. and we will not go back for the majority of people in this cotry, planned parenthood is nonot the problem, we're the sosolution. we've been a part of the fabric

of america for a hundred years and my plight today is our doors stay open. now is the time for us to link arms together for thehe right o working women to earn a a livin wage, for the right of immigrant familieses to live without fear for the right of mothers everywherere to raise families in safe communities, with clean air and clean drinking water including in print, michigan. and we're here for the right to live openly n no matter who you are e or who you love, no mamat what. and you better believe, we're here to fight for reproductive rights, including access to afe and legal abortions. because e to e expand on a hist quote by my heroine and friend, hillary clinton, a woman who

knows a little something about never giving up, reproductive rights are human rights. you need to know that starting this w week, congress is going be moving quickly to try to pass restrictions on reproductitive access and we cannot let them. you need to call your member o congress, call your senator anan say we will not go back. one of us can be dismissed, two of us can be ignored but together we are a movement and we are unstoppable. it is an honor to do this work alongside inspiring l leaders like the woman standing next to me. please welcome my friend, kiera johnson, executive director for urge, and reproductive and gender equity. >> i see some nasty women out there.

so nasty. i seee some nasty boys out there, too. janet would be so proud. my name is kiera and i'm the e.d. for unite for women and gender equity and i work with young people and am unapologetically abortion positive. that's not the only reason i'm here with you today. i want to talk to the young people in the crowd, those l li streaming right now on twitter and on facebook. thank you, y to you for the young people whwho continue t to be on the froront lines and in the streets and who showed up at the polls and voted for equity, justice, and a better country. thank you for forcing us to see the humanity at standing rock, ank you, thank you for

reminding the world that black lives matter. thank you foror lettiting us be n the dreamer's dream. thank you for boldly supporting the right to safe, legal and accessible abortion in your states and nationally. thank you for demanding to o be seen, demanding to be heard, and demanding control of your destiny. but we know if someone else controls your body, it is them and not you ththat controls you destiny. state sanctioned violence fueled by racism, sexism and xenophobia, building walls a at our b borderers, constructingg in our commumunities, racial profilining, muslim registries,

funding cuts for poor families, restriricting h health care bas on gender, and denying people the right to control how, when and with who to build their families. these are all attempts to control us, not some of us, but all of us. .onald trurump is the president y'all, t there's a million of y'all out here, y'all should say boo louder. but the good news is he's working for us now. that means he needs to hear from us not just today but tomorrow and every day of his presidency. we will not consent to your violence, mr. trump. we refuse to let p politicians chartt our destinies and steal

our dignity. we will stand together in solidarity a work collectivevely for economic security, racial justice, reproductive freedoms and gender equity for all. thank you. >> hello! ♪

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i just want to dream aby we're all together all in the same boat ♪ >> this is democracy now!. >> another announcement. >> we're coming to you live from the women's march in washington. >> you can reunite over on this stage of the side, stage left, please reunite onstage left. >> woman's march, d.c.!

that's right! that's right. this march is about us, the people, the women in this country who refuse to be marginalized, sexualizezed, and abused and silenced. march! my name is donna hylton. i'm formerly known as inmate 86 g 0206. but in this movement, i'm here to talk about those women and those girls that society refuses to talk about that they continue to criminalize and continue to abuse, sexualize, denigrate and dehumanize. and i stand here today to tell you that we are human, that we are women, and we are you and you are we and we count. and who said we couldn't break the ceiling? this is the grass ceiling right now and from today on.

this is our ceiling. and how amazing and wonderful it is to be in this powerful

movement of sisterhood. and as we march today, we march in sol dare illustrate -- in solidarity with millions of women and girls who have been told all their lives they have no right, they have no value, and they have no voice, but today we in solidarity are marching to change that narrative. we are marching to rewrite, reclaim, and reimagine the

humanity that has been taken and stripped from these women and girls and they cannot march with us today but they're here. five years ago, i was released from prison after serving 27

years. i thought that would get you. and when i walked out those gates of prison, i made a those women who are our friends, our neighbors, our sisters, that i would do all

that i could do to tell their story, tell their narratives and tell their truths. today in solidarity, inmate 86-g-0206, i call into this oment, into this movement judy clark, teresa hollins, pamela smarts, rosalind smith, i call into this moment alice johnson, sandra rucker, michelle west. i call into this moment, this movement, all those women who

have been overlooked, mamarginalized, sexualized, dehumanized and silenced. today we march in solidarity to be their voice. we are their voice.

we are changing that nanarrativ today. today. we are changing what has been

said and used to denigrate and ville phi and -- to villify and silence them. today we march to humanizeze

women and every woman and girl in our country and across the world. today you u march alongside tho of us from the women and justice project, and one billion and rising. the center for justice, and the national council fofor incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls. join us. join us. as continued to march, let's walk in our greatness. because we are beautiful, we are amazing and we are not silent anymore. we, all of us, mymy voice, your voice, our voice is

one voice. and togetherer that voice is powerful. my name is donna hylton an d this is what democracy looks like. [cheering] [cheering] >> hello! ♪ >> whoo! >> whoo!o! ♪ >> the committee to elect democratic women all over this

country. these are the brave women who fight for us every day in washington, d.c., in the capitol! every day! and i know, i know we are all here to ignite change, and we know that donald trump and hii

yes, theyointees and are mostly men, my friends, are going to tear apart our rights, are opportunities. you chould be -- you should the ones writing the laws. and at emily's list we s stand with you. we got two choices, my friends. weeither run for office or support a sister who is runningg for office. together, we are going to in. let me introduce our brand-new fabulous senator f from california, , senator kamala harris! [cheering] senator harris: all right, all

right, all right. what a beautiful sight i see.e. whatat do my eyes behold? this is an extraoaordinary day. anand we all should be extremel, extremely proud. so here is the deal. i believe we are at an inflection point in the history of our country. i believe this a moment in time that is a pivotal moment in t te history of our country.

athink of this as being momentnt in time similar to that moment in time when my parents met when they wewere active in e civil rights movement and ststudents at the university of california berkeley in the 1960's. it is a moment in time that is manyar to a moment in time of us have experienced in our personal lives. when that circumstance or

situation required us to l lookn furroughedand with brow, we asked the question, who are we? this is that moment in time for our country where we are collectively looking in a mirror

those nominees. and why they are dangerous. first of all, you have juseff sessions. susessions has a history. boo. he has a history of racism. he voted against women against violence act. he threatened civil rights workers who were just trying to register people to vote. and what about that betsy devos? he's pickinge who who's never seen the inside of a classroom.m. she has no experience. she has no background. that is dangerous for our children. and what about that ex-ceo of exxon, tillerson?

oh, he is a big front of putin's and the kremlin. and we know that he hears the reports on climate change so that we would not know what exxon was doing to us and our families. ohoh, we know about your nomine, mr. trump. and then there is stephen n newn ---- mnuchin. the foreclosure king the predatory lender. he f foreclosed on 36,000 famils and put them out on the streets. well, donald, wewe are here to tell you that we want you and bannon to stop sending those dog whistles to white supremacists. we have a lot that we need to tell you today. we're here because we want equal

pay for equal women. and donald, in the final analysis, you'd better keep your hands off of planned parenthood. while we ared, concerned, we are rallylying and werere proteststing, you don''t intimidate us. you don't scare us. we're going to fight against you and your policies. we are going to struggle. we are going to do everythining necessary to show yo you cannot take this country down the path that you think you are going to take it down. we're n ot going to allow you to do it. and so, i want to thank all of you for being here today. i you ready for the fight? - are you ready for the fight? are you up to the fight? are you going to continue the

fight? thank you, all, so very much. now, you have all of these members of congress here and all of us work together so very well. but i'd like to introduce you to whoblack women of congress belong to the black caucus who aree struggling every day along with our sisters in the congress for justice and equality. yvetteour organizer, clarke. that powerful woman from oakland, barbara lee. gwenn marr. you just heard from kamala harris. lisa blunt rochester. sheila jackson lee. . terri sewell

demmings. and brenda lawrence. give them all a big round of applause. thank you.. just m more than 100 years agao women and d men, but mostly womn of c courage, just a few, marchd on washington to tell the then president before his inauguration that they demanded the right to vote. now today, those women, they d, and salted, hospitalized but they knew that fight for the vote was important for them, their families in this country. today, after hillary clinton put 65 million cracks in the hardest and highest glass ceiling, we are marching on washington for

similar reasons. we want to be counted. we want to be heard. just as the women stared down th eir own future as impossible, we are not turning back. we have so many issues to fight for. we don't have equal pay for equal work in this country. we don't have a national paid leave plan. we have to fight for what we believe in. wewe know that nott until every countryd girl in this has the chance to reach their god-given potential that america will not reach hers. 20% of women in congress and many of them and our male colleagues stand here firmly for you. i promise you if we had 51% of

women in congress, do you think we would be debating access to contraception? do you think we would be debating paid leave? do you think it would be so hard collegeexual assault on campuses and in our military? it wouuld not! this is the moment of the beginning of the revival of the women's movement. this is the moment you will remember when women stoo strong and stood firm and said, never again! this is the moment that you are going to be heard! [cheering] >> hey, everyone. i'm senator tammy duckworth. you guys look great. jacketmy don't f with me

to this rally. got to t yesterday, i ell you, i was pretty depressed. i brought my daughter here today because this is her first protest. she's two years old. to all of the girls and boys out there, thanks for coming ouout. this is about our country. to defendshed blood this nation, i did not give up parts of my body to have the constitution tramplreed -- trampled on. i did not serve, we did not se rve to protect the constitution to have them roll back our rights. this is about u going home after today and standing up and fifighting and your communities. take it home. run for office yourself. get out there and be those

voices, be that change you wantt to see in the world. they are not going to roll back the americans with disabilities act, because without the ada, i would not be here today. the disability community. they are not going to pollute our air and our water. you know, i just sat through two weeks of confirmation hearings but -- for what lookoked like a swamp cabinet of cabinet secretaries, people who forget they have millions of dollars in the cayman islands. sorry, we f forgot to disclosose that. pepeople with ethical problems. people do not know whether or not there is a safe amouount of lead in your trading supply. these are all things we have to fight t for. this is what every single one of the people standing on the stage is going to be fighting for. join us, come together, go home and fight in your communities, on your school boards. run for congress, run for the legislature, be that voice,

because without you, i saw a sign that said "women are the wall." where is that sign? women are the wall and trump will pay. we are the wall. you will not roll back our rights. not as long as we are here. thank you. god bless each and everyone of you. [cheering] naral the president of and we're proud sponsors of this march. we have one message for donald trump, we will not be punished for owning our lives. y'all are beautiful. have a great day! i my name is -- love and wanted to say that all black lives matter, including women. >> thank you so much. people, use a

power. people. >> power. >> this is for angela. and the panthers. i thank god for michelle alexander. my mama raised me all by herself. her left ahdn her -- hand her right hand was a help. [bleep] white supremacy, and white wealth. >> as men, we must protect our women. we cannot allow cowards to disrespect our women. we must uplift our women and stand with our women. you will not discriminate against ouour women. today you will hear the voice of our women. you will not take away the freedom of choice from o our

women. every day you should be trying to repay our women. it is because of our women that i am a man. >> my name is aja monet, and i'm a poet. i'm honored to be here.e. when people say language has no power, let us not forget it was language, words that got trump into office. it was the power of words. i am about to read is for the daughtersrs of a new daday. be not discouraged be not dismayed be definined always thsis poem is called "my mother was a frfreedom figighter." t songstifies a nigh on the woolly back of a mammoth. a m other's cowel falls to her feet a cyst in the pouch of a howdy

had negra -- the farmers, the plantations, the maids, the mansions, nurses, the camps and d shamans and huts walalking to work in dn fog. a chupacabra sufferingng in solo or a black unicorn panhandling at t the border of an n upside n dimension beguiled by bars enieds sweat despapair, ofity tell ---- citacddel judgment here she waboborn -- brothels, poor women, pawnshops shaped as men. unyielding wind clcloser back io dirt roads my mother was a freedom fighter singeded

she is a mermaid she is an archipelago of shantytytowns shee is made of invention and necessity a bouquet of bloodody music in r hahand sugar, leaves of tobacco, a cluster of bananas, husk of corn wheat, right flower, golden nuggets, diamonds she is my mother is an incantation bellowing from the field look for her in the ruins. drunk off palm wine lonely she is lonely but not alonene remember her on the shoress she p ps okra seeds in her baby's hair sheduring the tides of wip went by and mangrove and carved a spear from her mother's bones -- blighted dreams born of

zealous in a stretch of o orchids, honeucuckle, daffodils,, cottonn blooming during g a conjugalal t switchblade in her boot, she touches herself, moaning pleasure pours on her in broad daylight she was captured in the middle of a gunfight remember, my mother was a freedom fighter ever a drought, she gathers cloudsnd they rally above her fermenting n nature her courage she is beyond what names are courage she arrived by instinct for petition for presence it was a black woman, dark as night inwas a woman who -- neglect mparishes she midwife revolutions amazon city sentiments becaususe of the eye of thststom within her, they called her magic she was a freedom fighter

and s she taught all of us how o fight love y'all. keep fighting. thank you. i'm ththe artistic d director oe women's march on washington. it is my honor and my great plsurere to introduce one of my personal heroes, the immigrant rights activists, and credible, inspspiring, sopophie cruz and r familyly. ms. cruz: hi, everybody. sophie cruz. we are here together making a

chain of love to protect our families. lett u us fight with h love, fa, familiesge s so thahat ourr will not be destroyed. to tell the children not to be afraid, because we are not alone. there are still m many people tt have theheir hearts filled d wi loveve. to struggle in this s path of lilife. let's keep together and fight for the rights. god is with us. hola.

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[cheers and applause] [repeating in spanish] [cheers and apppplause] [repeating in spapanish] [cheers and applause] >> thank you. graciaas. [cheeeers and applause] [chanting sophie] [applause]

>> ♪ >> peace be upon you. where are my ladies at? ladieses, make somome noise. i wantnt to bring my sisters to th stagege. i am here. i march to stand d in solidariry wiwith women all a around the wd because wewe fight foror humanan rights. we fight for justitice. and wewe will geget justice. will thinknk i want to say is, o afraid of f donald trumpmp? i did nonot hear you.. who is afraid of donald trump? say i am not afraid of donald trump. trump!not afraid of donaldd

we are not afraid of donald trump! i represent the black muslim community. i have got some of my sisters up here. yes, give it up. my sisters in the bubuilding. donald trump came for the muslims directly. talking about how you would ban us, talking about how we have to register. we have been muslims our entire lives. guess what? that ain't happening. we know our rights. thank you. much love. given up for the sisters up here and all the sisters. who is ready for a revolution? listen, listen. ♪ in these hard times leaving my reince -- my rhymes

my opinion you consider your disrespecting our women i am coming to take you if you go with the flow the party beginning now your lifestyle is slipping we all in the beauty like we are your sisters a real revolution is you going to be sitting there on the sideline? your sister ise a real revolution. when the time comes, we are ready to ride. wiwill you be sitting there listening? they want me to be ignorant, belligerent.

can i get out of here? where the exit, please? neglected, fools for your rhetoric. lights out. i am coming to wreck it. selling g us imaginary y thingse are not buyiying. we are not keeping silent. kekeeping it real. tell you howow we feel. no violence. things goioing sideways s nowad. we only abide by the most high. sisters because your are coming, the real revolutionaries. are you going to be ready to ride? are you going to be sitting there? when the time comes, we are ready to ride. who ready to ride? who is ready? who is going to be ready? this sister r is telling you the

revovolution is ready. when the time comes, we are ready to ride. are you going to be sitting on the sidelines? who ready? who ready? who ready? >> ♪ ready to ride >> get your fist up. say, i am a revolutionary. i am a revolutiononary! let the whole world hear you guys. i am a revolutionary! our power is with the people. remember that. all power is with the people. donald trump can't do nothing because we are the power. all power to the people. love you guys. peace and blessings. say her name. [applause]

>> have you been to the gynecologist yet? mom was the question my asked me at 15 when i informed her about a change i noticed in my body. i would like to start by saying i am not by nature a particularly private person. but by profession, i am extremely private. i'm not the type to divulge facts about my personal life. i am fiercely protective of my family and i have no social media presence. face ofel that in the this current political climate, it is vital that we all make it our mission to get really personal. so yes, at 15, i had been to a gynecologist. i was living in new york city and had visited a planned parenthood there. [applause]

>> my mother moved to california a few years before. my brother and i were living with my father. at 15, i had been working in the entertainment industry for eight or so years and have been fortunate enough to be eligible for private health insurance through my union. our family struggled financially. we had been on public assistance for several years. i was primarily responsible for making my own doctors appointments. aboutill, i was nervous taking the next stride toward womanhood. it was actually my clinician at planned parenthood who suggested i speak with my pediatrician if i was seeking a referral. she was compassionate and professional and told me she was happy to treat me the regular chcheckups. and when the time came, for stdd and cancer screenings. no judgment. no questions asked. planned parenthood provided a

safe place where i could be treated with gentle guidance. [cheers and applause] >> i may have been 15 and surprisingly self-sufficient, but i am sure there is not one person here who has not been helped planned parenthood directly or otherwise. when i knew i was coming to speak on behalf of of women's reproductive and health issues, every single one of my girlfriends had a story about planned parenenthood. they saved me so m many times. one of my best girlfriends confided in me, saying they saved my ass and some other parts, too. when i found out i had precancerous signs, i never would have known without my annual checkup. her speech grew more emotional as she described how the organization help her r decide between treatment options. she was able to make difficult decisions, deciding what was right for her, for her body, and her partner, without anyone

else's interference. [cheers and applause] >> my sister also used planned parenthood services for years after moving states. she had been living her whole life in new york city, pursuing her dream to o move to californa she e had no contacts s and no health insurance but was able to regularly see a doctor at planned parenthood clinics for screenings, advice, birth control, and checkups. 2.5 million than patients a year that rely on services forit cancer and std screenings, birth control, safe abortion and pregnancy planning, these are uncertain and anxious times. lawmakers in 24 states have tried to block patients from receiving care at planned parenthood. congress has voted to limit accessss to reproductive servics nine times. voboo. yes, boo!

there are very real and toastating consequences limiting access to what should be considered basic heheth care. [cheers and applause] americans,ions of planned parenthood is often n te only trustworthyhy and affordabe clinic providing safe education, sex education, safe abortion, and life-saving services. president trump, i did not vote for you. [cheers and applause] said, i respect that you are the president-elect and i want to be able to support you. but first, i ask that you support me. support my sister, support my mother, support my best friend, and all of our girlfriends. support the men and women here today that are anxiously

awaiting to see how your next moves may drastically affect their lives. may as my daughter, who a result of the appointments you have made grow up in a country moving backwards, not fororward, and may potentially not have the right to make choices for her body and her future that your daughter has been privileged to have. [cheers and applause] >> i ask you to support all women and our fight for equality in all things, including the fight to be recognized as individuals who know better for ourselves what is right for our bodies. better than any elected official, popular or otherwise. [cheers and applause] me tois a great honor for be speaking here in front of all of you today. after the result of this

woman, ani felt as a american citizen, a great weigit bearing down on my shoulders. the feeling that the near future we present many obstacles, confrontation and division. my immediate after hearing the man,ion results was -- oh, we have so much work to do. but once the heaviness began to subside, i realized an opportunity has presented itself to make real, long-term change. not just for future americans, but in the way we view our

stuck in. i pledge my relentless devotion to support women's health care initiatives. i will not stop fighting to make basic women's health care available to all. i believe with every fiber of my being that the conversations we have with our partners and doctors about what we do with our bodies and our future should not be made fodder for any politician, political agenda, lawmaker, and for-profit corporation. [cheers and applause] oure must stand up for basic human rights and always move forward. never backwards. the current political administration benefits from taking the power away from us. don't give up your power. don't let the feelings of helplessness make you complacent. i ururge you all to makeke a difference on the grouound. volunteer.

volunteer with organizizations that help women seeking a s safe place to make some of the mostt difffficult decisions of their lives. donate to causes. >> ♪ [laughter] [no audio] >> ♪

>> good afternoon, family. my name is carmen perez and i am the executive director of the gallery for justice. i'm truly humbled to join and serve you as one of the national cochairs of the women's march. sisters and bob bland, as well as the many people who have worked so hard to make today happen. thank you. astand here is mexican-american woman -- as a mexican-american woman, as a daughter and granddaughter of farmworkers. as a family member of incarcerated and undocumented people. as a survivor of domestic violence. pain andn who knows who has transformed her pain

into gifts. gifts that have allowed me to see light in the darkest places. for 20 years, i have worked in america's prisons. i have seen families being torn apart, locked up in cages. many stripped of their rights, their freedom, and ultimately their lives. and the majority are black and brown, including women. women who i call sisters. this has to end. this will end because of you, because of us. today, i join you all and raise my voice loud and clear to say we have had enough. we know what the problems are. we know who our enemy is. we know what the injustices have done to us and those we love. but to overcome them, we have to stand in solidarity. we have to lisisten to each othr and no -- know that we always

have more to learn. to protect each other, we do not always have to agree. but we have to organize and stand together. we must remember that unity of action does not mean that we but thate unanimous, injury to one is injury to all. reminded of the words of my mentor and boss, harry belafonte. those who are working towards the liberation of our people are only subject to friendship and support. those who are being divisive are playing the enemy's game. and so, our responsibility is to find our way. there is an entry point for all of us to be involved in this movement. so get involved. stay involved. and keep your eyes on the prize. know that those closest to the problem are also closest to the solution.

trust them. stand with them in your action because i believe when i liberate myself, i liberate others.. and if you do not speak, ain't nobody going to speak on behalf of you. for those threatening us and our livelihood, i say -- [speaking spanish] >> if they do not let us dream, we will not let you sleep. we stand here on day one of the new administration refusing to let them sleep. not for one second. officials,d all our whether elected or appointed, accountable. there are some in this country who say we should adjust to work with and adjust to hatred. but dr. martin luther king spoke of the power of being maladjusted to an unjust society.

we will not adjust to hatred and bigotry. islamaphobia, xenophobia, white supremacy, sexism, racism, misogyny, and ablesm. intentional,ave, and unapologetic in addressing our identities. and collectively, we will stand up for the most marginalized among us because they are us. we will not wait for some magical being to rise up and save us. we are not helpless. we are the ones we have been waiting for. [cheers and applause] >> we are who we need. when i see my liberation bound in your liberation and you in mind, together, we will get freight. so remember, when you go back

home, think about why you march. ,nd organize, organize organize. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you so much. i am so proud to stand here with all of you today to be in service to you because this was truly a service opportunity for all of us who work for you. it has been such an honor to , bobalongside the cochairs bland, linda, and the birthday girl you just heard from, carmen perez. today is not a concert. it is not a parade and it is not a party. today is an act of resistance. [cheers and applause] >> now, some of you came here to protest one man.

i did not come here for that. i came here to address those of you who say you are of good conscience. to those of you who e experienca feeling of being powerless, disparaged, victimized, antagonized, threatened, and abused. to those of you who for the first time felt the pain my people have felt since they were brought here with chains, shackles on our likes. today i say to you, welcome to my world. welcome to our world. woman, here as a black the descendent of slaves. my ancestors literally nursed our slslave masters. through the blood and tears of my people, we built this country.

[cheers and applause] >> america cannot be great without me, you, and all of us here today. [cheers and applause] >> today, you may be feeling aggrieved. but know that this country has been hostile to its people for a long time. for some of you, it is new. for some of us, it is not so new at all. today, i am marching for black and brown lives. for sandra bland, for tamir rice, for eric garner, for michael brown, for trayvon martin, and for those nine people who were shot at the emmanuel african episcopal church. we have a chance, brothers and

sisters, to get this thing right. upcan do it if women rise and take this nation back. [cheers and applause] >> when you go back home, remember how you felt. what made you have that instinct that said i have to get on a glass -- bus, plane, train, no matter what, to protect my children. that feeling? take it back with you to where it is that you came from today. you have awoken a new and renewed spirit. and i am so excited to be a part of this with all of you! [cheers and applause] quiet in our whisper, to speak low about it, is not going to get it done. we must be bolold the way you we bold to come here in these e lae numberss today.

not you feel that we are taking care of one another properly, put your feelings aside. put your pride aside and stand up for the most marginalized people in this society. because if you stand for them, you stand for all. dr. king said i will not remember the harsh words of my enemies, i will remember the silence of my friends. god bless you! [cheers and applause] >> peace be upon you, brothers and sisters. my name is linda and i am one of the national cochairs for the women's march on washington. youand here before

unapologetically muslim american. unapologetically palestinian-american. unapologetically from brooklyn, new york. brothers, you are what democracy looks like. sisters and brothers, you are my hope f for my community. i will respect the presidency, but i will not respect this president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] >> i will not respect and aninistration that won election on the backs of muslims and black people and undocumented people and mexicans

and people with disabilities and on the backs o of women! [cheers and applause] >> many of our communities, including my community, the muslim community, have been suffering in silence for the past 15 years under the bush administration and under the obama administration. the very things you are outraged by during this election season, the muslim registry program, the banning of the muslims, the dehumanization of the communities i come from, that has been our reality for the past 15 years. if you and brothers, have come here today as your first time at a march, i welcome you. i ask you to stand and continue

to keep your voices loud for black women, for native women, for undocumented women, for lgbtq communities, for people with disabilities. you can count on me. your palestinian muslim sister, to keep her voice loud, keep her feet on the street, keep my head held high, because i am not afraid! [cheers and applause] >> sisters and brothers, fear is a choice. we are the majority. we are the conscience of these united states of america. we are this nation's moral compass.

know if you are going the right women of color, sisters and brbrothers. we know where we need to go and we know where justice is b becae when we fight for justice, we fight for it for all people, for all our communities! [cheers and applause] >> i want to remind you that the reason why you are here today is because mothers and yoga teachers and organizers came o t to organize ordinary people to make this happen. no corporate dollars, no money from corporations. this is your dollars. this is your work. you made this happen! honored to stand here today

on the stage as a national butair with my sisters, also with my family because i organized my mother, my daughters, and all of my children. am myst of all, i palestinian grandmother r who lives in occupied territory. i am so proud to be here with all of you. justice for all! [cheers and applause] >> ♪

>> ♪ i was born by the river in a little town just like the river i have been running ever since long, long time coming but i know a change is going to come oh, yes, it will livingb been too hard prepared to die because i do not want -- because i do not know what is up there beyond the sky , long time a long coming. the change is going

to come. oh, yes, it will. i go to the movies and i go downtown somebody keeps telling me don't hang around time cominga long but i know comee is going to oh, yes, it will go to my brothers help me,, brother, please.

but he winds up knocking me babk down on my knees. oh! thought i times i could not last for long. able toi think i am carry on. long, long time coming. that change is going to come. oh, yes, it will. long, long time coming. but i know change is going to come.

oh, yes, it will. it has been a long, long time coming. but i know change is going to come. oh, yes, it will. ♪ i know change is coming and it is going to come. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. >> hello, my name is judith leblanc, and i a am a proud memr of the cato tribe of oklahoma and the director of the native organizers alliance. and i marched for my daughter, my nieces.

we march today for mother earth because water is life. [cheers and applause] >> standing rock has shown the world our f faith, our prayers, people power is stronger than rubber bullets. country,dian generations have suffered from contaminated air, land, and fuel, and fossil corporations ran their profits. that is real carnage, president trump. you'rent trump, we heard privatizing indian land for oil. you will not steal our land. we have been there before.

women are here representing many nations. we are marching in prayer. we are marching with our ancestors in our hearts. it is a standing rock moment! trump, let me break it down for you. a standing rock moment means our power is rooted in love for humanity. our strength is drawn from our ancestors. thanedicine is stronger rubber bullets or water cannons. standing together, people united, we are here today standing with standing rocock. standing with flint, michigan. standing with immigrants united. people, waterous

protectors across the world, are saying no to pipelines. no to corporate plunder of sacred sites. to two wars for oil -- no wars for oil. presidenent trump, the movemente are building is driven by faith, by hope, byove, -- love, and prayers. we will stop the carnage of mother earth. water is sacred. water is life. women are live. thank you. [applause] >> buenos dias! house,h latinas in the i'm from the national latina

institute for reproductive health and i am here with my sisters representing reproductive justice at the march for women! boldly ande today to probably proclaim in the face of fascism that we stand for health, dignity, and justice for all people. and we will fight against racism, sexism, xenophobia, racism, transphobia, homophobia. we will be fighting this with all of our hearts. this is a hard moment, folks. but we are resilient communities. we are a community that has been fighting. we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. we are here and we will resist. our latina community -- [speaking spanish] we will continue to fight in the face of this administration and

stand up for reproductive health, dignity, and justice. gracias! >> hello. i am here representing our asian american pacific islander community with us today. i stand before you as an immigrant from south korea, the mother of a korean african american daughter, and i marching today as we cannot presidency of someone who does not demonstrate he values women, immigrants, and people of color. not only in his speech but in his action. i will not sit by while trump separates our immigrant families and i will not sit silent while trump cut funding from programs that prevent violence against women. i will not sit science -- silent while accessible health care is taken away from us.

i will not sit by while this administration attacks our right to choose if we want to parent, when we want to parent, and how we parent. [cheers and applause] >> what's up, everybody? how you doing today? i am the executive director. we are the national women of color reproduductive justicice collective. i stand before you representing the black women's justice alliance. women 22med by black years ago and organized and led by women of color and it simplifies the charge given to us. she said we cannot have single issue movements because we do not live single issue lives. reproductive justice fight for access to safe and healthy legal abortion because abortion is not a sin. it is not genocide. it is our human right. it addresses police brutality

because when black men, women, and children have to live a life with fear, that is reproductive injustice. we fight for health care reform because black women are dying at a rate four times higher than white women in childbirth, and we must address how racial dissemination still -- discrimination still resides in our health care system. our movements are linked. all of us must work together to do this work to get to freedom and see justice. afraid to fight for our human life to live free from violence against our bodies, families, and our communities. we are not afraid to call out the system of white supremacy that continues to overly criminalize and police and violate and kill us. we will always r resist! sister song celebrates the work

of indigenous women and women of cocolor. this movement wants you. we need you because it will l te all of us to get to the other sidede. so join us in october for our national conference and let's build a movement for justice! thank you! >> do you want to march? do you want to march? are you ready to march? there are so many people here today that folks are already marching. we have had such an incredible group of people show up that we have got a few things we have to do. one, janelle monae, maxwell, and a few other incredible artists will be comiming before you in just a moment. also, we have a few speakers left. just a few. seconds, i'm going to

stand with them and cut the microphone off. are you with me? are y'all with me? 30 seconds. all right. who we got next, y'all? in the name of allah, all praise is due to the god most high. i want to tell you i stand here as an african american muslim woman. i stand here on the heels of the native americans, the africans who came before columbus. i stand here on the heels of garvey.tubman, marcus there is a teaching in islam that says the womb of the woman is connected to the throne of god.

god willsay justice, bring down justice. when you say no more, it will be no more. women, we as muslim americans, we stand with you. standlet islamaphobia between us. nothing radical unless justice is radical. there is nothing islamic about terrorists. we stand with you today for action! [cheers and applause] >> hello. my name is george gresham, president of 1199 sciu. [applause]

to president donaldld trump, i don't know what kind of president you will be but you uva organizer. we are here today because this is what america looks like. [cheers and applause] >> this s is our country. and we are going to be respected. we are herere to tell you that u can't divide us, that you c cant bring us backck to the bad old days. america i is going to be great again, it will b be because we united together will fight for our rights! [cheers and applause] >> we are not giving in, sisters and brothers. we have workeded too hard to mae the progress that we h have. and the fact that you came here is true that we in this

country will stick together. we will fight together. we will susupport each other. we will stand up for women's rights. we will stand up for immigrant'' rirights. we will stand up for workers' rights. we wilill stand up for human rights, environmental rights. [applause] president of the teachers union. americasent children in and educators in america and college professors in america. we represent america, as do you in this crowd! let me ask you.

do we wawant good schools in america? do we want good jobs in america? do we want reproductive health in america? do we want to control our bodies in america? do we want to fight against islamaphobia, xenophobia, racism, and sexism? up like youst stand are right now! will we act against donald trump? will we use our voices? let's march! [cheers and applause] brothers, i was an undocumented child from el salvador. i am an unrecognized refugee of this country. during the salvador in civil

war, my mother sought refuge in the united states and was denied under incredible violence. she was refused but she came anyway. mother, she worked hard babysitting other people's children so that one day she could save enough money for her mother, my grandmother, and her sister to bring us to this country. i am here because of her courage and the sacrifices of my biological father who paid with his life so other people could have a right to vote. whoseher who raised me, family toiled in the fields of california, so my mother and i could one day have residency. before the age of 21, i became a citizen of this country. i am not here by myself but with the spirit of my ancestors and millions of women just like you who dared to dream, sacrifice, and fight for all of us. this is our moment, our

movement. and we will not go down without a fight. today i say to you, i am fearless --and we are fearless women! the fight for freedom will continue. the fight for justice will continue. [speaking spanish] gracias! >> ♪ >> hello. my name is mary mali -- mary mali -- mariyam ali. i'm here in honor of my father, muhammad ali, muslims in this country, and the marginalized. i want to say something to the non-voter. we have to start voting. i understand there is a lot of distrust of the government. but we have to learn from civil rights movements from the past, which is how we got the civil rights act in 1954.

barack obama said something, keep it short. he said don't move, vote. so this is what we have got to do. don't get frustrated. get involved. don't complain. organize. so many people watch television for hours and hours. ththey are on their telephones,n the computer for hours. they will stand up for the sports team. they know every rule of the nba and nfl. but they do not know how government works. timeve to start spending and being responsible for all humanity and stand up for equal rights. thank you. the greetings of peace of all muslims. >> hello, good afternoon. to d.j.nding next beverly bond. she is the founder of black girls rock!

>> i am standing with the .c. lite. m >> i am woman, hear me roar. >> the women we are about to introduce to you have suffered unfathomable loss from racist violence. but they are here out of love for their children and hours. please welcome to the stage the mothers of the movement. hamilton, and sybrina fulton. [applause] >> we love you all. thank you. >> hello.

i need you to do something for us to give us energy because we are still amateurs at this. whwhen i say mothers, you say "f ththe movement." >> mothers. >> of the movement. >> louder. i want our kids in heaven to hear it. >> mothers. >> of the movement. >> one more time. mothers. >> of the movement. >> hello, , and weome. my namame is sybrina fulton. my son who is in heaven witith these mothers' s sons was trayvn martin. i have with me eric garner's mother. wave your hand. mom.e hamilton's

and d jordan davis' m month. all of o our sons are in heaven. we continue to fight fofor our children. we will not stop. we understand thee movement. we understand what we havave too as women is to stand tall. and we will continue to stand tall. we are stronger together! [cheers and applause] >> let me also say it does not matter who the president is, we are going to continue to fighth. [cheers and applause] >> we e have come too far r to n back now.. there isis no turning back. lastly, i just want to say t to all l of you, continue e to supt the continued to show up. continue to participate. continue to pray. and women's rights are human rights. thank you.

y'all are ready to march, i know. but i have a very special surprise for you right now. real special. i need you all to give me a round of applause to get me conduct so i can bring this person out. award-winningmy person in the house. my dear sister and friend, alicia keys! [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, are we here? are you ready to march? say yes. huts of history's shame, i rise. i am a black ocean leaping and wide, swelling and swelling in the tide.

leaving behind nights of terror and fear. i rise into a daybreak that is wondrously clear. i rise bringing the g gifts my ancestors gave. i am the dream and the hope of the slave. i rise! [cheers and applause] >> i know you have been hearing a lot ofof talking and we all he so much to say inside of us. i just want to thank you so much for your courage. thank you so much for your woman leanness -- womanlyness. thank you so much for your strength. thank you so much. let us continue to honor all that is beautiful about being feminine. we are mothers. we are caregivers. we are artists. we are activists. doctors,trepreneurs, leaders of industry and technology. our potential is unlimited. we rise.

we rise! allow our bodies to be owned and controlled by men in government or men anywhere for that matter. we will not allow our compassionate souls to get stepped on. we want the best for all americans. no hate. no bigotry. no muslim registry. care,ue education, health and the quality. -- equality. we will continue to rise until our voices are heard and our planet's safety is not deferred. until our bonds stop dropping in other lands. until our dollar is the same dollar as the man's. and we continue to recognize that yes, we can!

until everyone respects mother energy and everyone with a belly button must agree. so i need you to repeat after me. we are here! we are on fire! world that is on fire! ground.the not backing down. ground.the not backing down. >> ♪ this girl is on fire. this girl is on fire.

fire. walking on girls are on fire. put your hands in the air. ohhh, ohhh ohhh we are these girls and we are on fire. ♪ >> put your fist up. put your fist up. i see your strength. i fear strength -- i feel your strength.

we feel you. yeah. [cheers and applause] >> thank you.

>> this is dominican republic and we are broadcasting live on the williams' march in - -- williams march in washington. >> you guys are fired up? you guys ready y to march? we're almost there. be patient this is our brothers. blocked out to shut, and d.c. down. we have another very, very special guest. ours our honor to introduce next guest here. > hello, future..

>> i just want to say -- i want woman nd youu that it was that gave you dr. martin luther king jr. it was woman that gave you malcolm x. and according to the bible, it you jesus. that gave that is what i am here to march against, the abuse of power.

to women continue to embrace the things that make you unique even if it makes others uncomfortable. you are enough. and whenever you are feeling doubt, whenever you want to give up, you must always remember to hoose freedom over fear. i come here again as an american and as a woman, not as an artist. when i go home, i have to same concern. when i see bullies tryining to bully you, just know that i am

upset about it and it does not go unnoticeded. the things that are happeningng from washington to even other americans abusing their power and abusing others will be hidden no more. women will be hidden no more. we will n not remain hidden figureres. we have names. we are complete human beings and they cannot police us. o get off our areolas. get off our vaginas. again, we birt this nation and we can unbirth a nation if we hoose. wewe can stop completely if we choose. this is about unity and i want

to bring on stage some more american women and men saying beautey. the mothers of the movement. as i talk about the abuse of power t not just happening here in washington. it is also happening on the ground in the police force. we have amazing cops. we have amazing americans. but, again, we are here to fight against the abuse of power and to unite and to remind us all that at the end of the day, we all see the same color. and we must protect each other. we must protect one another. so this is a song, this is a song, music that we wrote, not for ourselves but for you. make some noise if you're going to continue to be out there on the front line. [applause]

this is a song and it is for you to take out when yoyou march an this is a song called quell hell what are you talking about." we must continue to exercise our voices. so much us protest in silence and sosome of us believe that silence is not t an option and music, our sound is a weapon. no wrong way to do it. but this song is going to honor those who are victims. victims due to the abuse of power. this is a chant and for us to be one living, breathing organism. i need your help. i can get you to sing with us? this is a call and response. i am going to use sandra bland, our sister sandra bland.

so when i say sandra bland, say your name! i'm going to say santa c-span you're going to say say your name! so one more time. sandra bland! >> say your name. >> sandra bland. >> say your name. >> sandra bland! >> say your name! >> sandra bland! say your name. say your name. say your name! say your name! say your name! won't you say your name! ♪ hell you talking about helell y tatalking g about, helell you t out hell you t talking about hell you talking about hell you talking about sanandra blbland your name sandra a bland say yo naname s sandra bland say y you alall right. ththat w was a test. band, drop it in. ♪

everybody, put those hands in the air and sing with us. ♪ hell you talking about, hell you talking about, hell you talking about hell you talking about hello you talking about ell you talking about hell you talking about hell you

talking about hell you talking tanisha your name farmmill sandra bland! sandra bland s say your name sandra bland say your name say bland say your name your name, say your name, say your name hell you talk about talk about ll you talk about talk about

say your name, say your name, say your name say your name say our name trayvon martin, martin, say your name, trayvon davis say your name, jordan davis jordan davis say your name hell you talk hell you about talkin' about hell you talkin' about ♪ all right. so we're going to improv this. so what we're going to do right now is we're going to jump back in. all right. we got the mothers right here. say your baby's name.

jordan davis. here we go. we going to say jordan davis. so he can feel us and we're doing this for his mother who gave birth to him. we are proud of you for standing up here with us today. i'm giving you the mic because this is not about me. so you go. say it. jordan. jordan davis! no, no, no. no. we're going to do it right becacause this is a moment for history. we're gogoing to have a moment together where we listening and we are in tune. we are in tune, all right? one, two, three. jordan davis! >> say your name. >> jordan davis! >> say your name. >> jordan davis. >> say your name. >> jordan davis. >> say your name. >> jordan davis. >> say your name. >> jordan davis. >> say your name. say your name. say your name. say your name. say your name. say his name. say his name. say his name. won't you say his name.

hell. >> we got another mother. eric gardner's mother. and we're going to give you the mic. this is not about me. this is about you. this is about your son and this is about all of us fighting back against the abuse of power. so when this comes in, went to be in tune with you. on the one, two, say his name. one, two, three. >> eric gardner. >> say your name. >> eric gardner. >> say his name. >> eric gardner. >> say his name. >> eric gardner. >> say his name. >> eric gardner. >> say his name. whoo! ♪ this is the mother of muhammad. he was my son nypd came and

executed him. they kicked him and -- we eed justice for all. >> muhammad etva. >> say your name. >> muhammad etva. >> say his name. >> muhammad etetva. >> say h his name. >> muhammad etva. >> say his name. >> the mother of trayvon martin, thank you for your words and thk you for everything. this is about you. >> trayvon martin! >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name.

>> trayvon martin. >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name. >> trayvon martin. >> say his name. ♪ deandre hamilton's mother. ere we go. >> deandre hamilton. >> say his name. >> deandre hamilton. >> say his name. >> deandre hamilton. >> say his name. >> we got one more. this is for my trans brothers and sisters. you are not forgotten. we will continue to fight for you and what injustice done to you and what injustice done to anybody. any of you is one done to me and should be one done to all of us.

here we go. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> maya hall. >> say his name. >> donna mason. >> say his name. >> donna mason. >> say his name. >> donna mason. >> hell you talkin' about. that's what we're talkin' about. remember. we must protect each other and we must continue to choose freedom over fear. we can't give up. we can't be scared. and we're going to keep talking about this. ♪ we are watching as alicia key says.

god bless you p. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. i have the distinct honor and pleasure of welcoming to the stage the incomparable angela davis. [applause] >> so at this very challenging moment in our history, let us remind ourselves that we, the hundreds of thousands, the

millions of women, trans people, men and youth who are here at the women's march, we represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent , e dying cultures of racism patriarchy from rising again. we recognize that we are collective agents of history and that history cannot be deleted like webpages. we know that we gather this afteternoon on indigenous lands. and we follow the lead of the have never who

relinquished the struggle for land, water, culture, their people. we especially salute today the rock sue. the freedom troubles of black people that have shaped the very nature of this country's history cannot be deleted with the sweep of a hand. we cannot be made to forget. -- that black lives do matter. this is a country anchored in better or for worse, the very history of the

united states is a history of immigration and enslavement. spreading -- hurling accusations of murder and rape and building alls will not erase history. no human being is illegal. the struggle to save the planet, to stop climate change, to guarantee the accessibility of water from the lands of the standing rock sue to flint, michigan, to the west bank and aza, the struggles to save our air, this is ground zero of the truggles for social justice.

this is a women's march and this women's march represents the promise of feminism as against the pernicious powers of state iolence. and inclusive and intersectional semi-nism and inclusive and intersectional semi-nism that calls upon all of us to join the resistance to racism. to islam phobia, to anti-semitism. to miss song ji to capitalist exploitation. yes, we salute the fight for 15.

>> resistance to the attacks on muslims on immigrants, resistance to the attacks on disabled people. resistance to state violence, perpetrated by the policece and through the prison industrial complex. resistance to intimate gender violence, especially against rans women of color. that is why we say freedom and justice for palestine. we celebrate the impending

release of chelsea manning. we oscar lopez rivera but limit health care. free shakur. over the next months and years, we will be called upon to intensify our demands for social justice to become more militant in our defense of vulnerable populations. those who still defend the supremacy of white male patriarch i can have better watch out. he next 1459 days of the trump administration will bebe 1459 ds of resistance.

rinse -- resistance on the ground, resistance in the classrooms. resistance on the jobs, resistance in our art and in our in music. this is just the beginning. ella the words of the baker, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, you may have read a story that said that we are not marching. i am here to tell you we are marching. we are marching and we are going to use constitution avenue. please use the number streets to march to your north, which is this way. march to the north.

get to constitution avenue and turn left. go to the e washington m monume- i got it -- go to the washington monument and turn to the right. you will show the ellipse annd then we can go home. we have people from here to the ellipse. we have already achieved our goals but we are marching. [applause] >> make shower you take care of the elders, the kids and help your neighbors. we want this to be a safe march. but we still have speakers. anand we still have programs. it's going to take everyone in the back a little b bit off timo prepare. so please take your time as we are preparing to march. let us hear from the rest of our speakers. give it up for raquel willis. >> all right. hi, everyone. i know you are amped and ready to go. i promise i won't take too much

of your time. and before i start, i want us to take a second and look around. look at all of these people who are gathered here to take a stand. these are your partners in resistance and liberations and today, y'all are making a commitment to each other and to new vision of liberation. when i was younger, my father used to tell me walk like you know where you're going. i thought he was just trying to be deal. i didn't know what he was talking about. but when i was 19, he died and i quickly learned what he meant. he was no longer mymy guidance d my safety net and that loss pushed me to figure out exaxact who i am and the life i wanted to live. i found my voice. and today, i stand here with my

mom as a proud unapologetic year -- queer black transgender woman from augusta, g georgia. [applause] i'm more than those labels. i'm a daughter. i'm a sister, an auntie, a friend, a lover, a human and a eminist. and so i want toto stress the importance of us being intentional about inclusion. i think about historically trans women of color like e to sylvia rivera and marcia p. johnson who q i.a. fire on the lbgt rights movement and they were quicickly kicked d out and eras. they share a common thread with another revolutionary woman. and just like her, black women,

women of color, queer women,, trans women, disabled women, muslim womenen, and so many oths arare still asking many of y'al ain't i a a woman? so a as we commit to o build th movement of resistance a and liberations, no one can be an afterthought anymore. we must hold each other in love nd accountability. >> and that does it for the -- ♪ it om the does twims march in washington, d.c. i'm amy goodman with a special

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>> i want a president with no ir-conditioning. i want a black woman for president. i want a trans person for president.

♪ ♪ >> all right. i am from flint, michigan, my name is melissa mays. please don't forget about us because we've not forgotten about you. as you amazing women get throughout and march, know that flint has been without clean waters for 1002 days today. we are poisoned. we are sick. we are pissed off.

but we have not let that stop us. we have gone on the streets, in the courts and we stand together. we stand with all of you and as you're out there fight for the rights that we all deserve, like clean water and clean air, just remember. don't forget about us and d we' stand withth you. go out there, ladies. ave a greatat day. >> good afternoon. i'm rabbi sharon brous. sometimes it happens maybe once in a generation. the spirit of resistance is awaken at the intersection of love and faith and holy outrage. and in those moment, we are remind what had we're fighting for, what this country was built for, what our armed forces are willing to die for, what our flag flies for and that is liberty and justice for all. this is one of those moments. today, around the country, we, the people, stand together in protest, proclaiming our fidelity to love over hate,

progress over regress, and inclusion over exclusion because the nation we love this crisis. but we know it's not only a political crisis, it is a moral crisis. it is a soul crisis that is rooted and in its cynical politics of division that pits vulnerable populations against each other. but spiritual resistance, which is the marriage of radical empathy and moral action, spiritual resistance reawake, us to our shared humanity. one nation indivisible. our children will one day ask us whwhere w were you? when ourur country was thrust io a lion's den of demagoguery and division and we will say i stood with love. i stood with hope. i stood with sisters and brothers of all religious and all races and all genders and sexuality to insist we will

emerge from darkness and bask in an america that honors all of god's children. i ask you now to take the hand of someone to your right and take the hands of someone to your left. raise your hands high. we are the vast and varied manifestation of hope and love and spiritual of defiance that will hold our nation to its greatest aspiratioions. we are the agegents of changege. together we stand against the moral bankruptcy that threatens our democracy. together we reclaim truth and lift our voices for justice and mercy. together, we become the midwives of a new america.. may this holy day bring peace to all of us and peace to our beloved country. >> thahank you. i have one quick announcement bebefore our amazingng guest. there is a 12-year-olold girl w has been separated from h her

paparents. she is in that w white tenent. her name i is claire. she has red hair and converse shoes. she's in that tent to my right. claire, 12 years old. she's safe and fine butut go to that tent. thank you. nd it is my honor to introduce the amazing, the incredible maxwell! >> i can't hear myself yet. k. it's good to be here to celebrate this incredible experience. this is an incredible occasion that represents not only women, but all mankind, all people. thank you for having me here to sing a very special song written by an incredible woman, kate

bush. the song is called "this woman's work." because this woman's work! ♪ pray god you can cope i stand outside this woman's work, this woman's world ooh, it's hard on the man now his part is over

now starts the craft of the ather i know you've got a little life in your left i know you've got a lot of strength left i know you've got a little life in you left and i know you've lot a lot of strength left i should be crying but i just can't let it show i should be hoping but i can't stop thinking all the things we should have said that are never said all the things i should have done but i never did all the things we should have given, but i didn't oh, darling, make it go make it go away

♪ this is dedicated to the memory of sandra bland. o all thehe women out there. this comes before us to angela davis. to the future mothers of america nd all around the world. ♪ all the world whoa, whoa hey, eah

give me these moments, give them back to me, oh, i know, i know, know, i know, i know, i know hould have been crying but i just can't let it show should have been hoping but i can't stop thinking all the things we should have said that are never said all the things we should have done but we never did all the things we should have given but i didn't all the things that i should

have done but we never did oh, darling, make it go ♪ >> this is a man who stands for ll women right here. ♪ oh, make it go away make it go away ake it go away make it go away ♪ how are y'all feeling out there? do you feel empowered? do you feel like everyone loves and is here to protect? ♪

just make it stop it, make it go away anything, want to do make it go away make it go away make it go away we got to fight and stand up for all the women and all the mothers and all the daughters today ust make it go away just make it go away ♪ >> thank you so much. the woman's march. the march goes on every day, each and every day. thank you for having me. >> h hello, everyone. -- eddies edy anand i am

and i am undocumented anand not afraid. it is a day you for millions and millions of families across the country who are undocumented. that day, i get a call from the most precious person in my life, my motheher. and she t tells me erika, what going to happen? i am afraid. d this iss coming from a a woma who would never show a sign of weakness, a woman who whehen sh was s hit over and o over again my ownwn fatheher, never s show sign o of weakakness to us. this is a woman who decideded t leave a country with where she was raised and born in through the desert with her children and never showed a sign of weakness. the same woman who was in my house and i accidentally opened the door to -- and was taken.

and even the handcuff in front of me and my family and she looked at me and the eyes and say it's going to be e ok. i'm going to b be fine. the sasame woman called me in november 8, 2016 and said what's going to happen? i said to her you know what, mommy? you are not alone. there's millions of people. -- who will be there and who will fight for you and who will fight for millions of others who right now feels a threat because of everything that our current president said about you and about millions of others. to you, i can only cannot tell you what is going to happen. but i can tell you this as well. you are not alone and i want to also for us to tell every single person out there, every transgender person who is in the

-- center right now. you are not alone. can we say it? you are not alone. to every black, brown, muslim, lbgt child throughout who is depressed that don't know what to do with their lives because they don't know what us going happen to them, you are not alone. to all of those w women who hav been rained and who have been sexually harassed, whoho doesn' know what is going to hapappen them, you are not alone. and it might be a way to take away our action, something that has beenen said by our current president, this monday, you are nott alone. and i wt to thanknk you all and i can telell you justst one las thining. this, everything that our president and the rhetoric that happened, it's up to us to make sure that that is not the norm.

he will not be the norm in this country -- hate will not be the norm in this country. love will be the norm in this country. thank you. >> i was at the inauguration yesterday. i know most people warmth at the inauguration yesterday. but i went and i know we didn't go because we didn't want to make it normal what was going on. but let me tell you, i was standing there and it was a lot of craziness going on and one of my students looked at me and said is this normal? and i wasn't sure how to answer. should i say no. this isn't normal because we're americans and we move freely and joyfully. this isn't normal because even that our we know

freedoms are instanceuated in the very soil in the documents. this isn't normal because we know that we can go back and we can fight. or should i say yes, this is normal? because we're japanese-americans and we were ripped from our homes and our properties and we

debaseballed enemies of our state and we shivered in horse stalls at the racetrack and we waited to be shipped to american concentration camps and yes, this is normal because we are black americans and our tax dollars built glittering edifices we can't enter and solid prisons we can't exit and we say the salaries of those who slaughter us and we have never moved freely across this free land? and we came shacked in the holes of ships and we were pushed into jim crow's crowded ghettos and we're pinned in the penitentiaries of profits and of course this is normal because we're women and every boy and every man lays claim to our bodies and the states compelling interests says what to do with what's inside of us and some supposedly fool calls us the commupe's greatest asset while he uses us up and fathers and brothers and dates and strangers pin us and trap us and silence us as we struggle and then they call us liars if we tell. and yes, this is normal because we're children, so we're precious as embryos and irrelevant when we'r're born an no one even asks us what we want before imposing change on us because we're assumed to not have a preference or deserve a voice? and yeses this is normalal beca we're undocumented and separated and walled and removed and

voiceless and betrayed by friends and foes alike and yes, this is normal because we're sick and our tur bins of faith are misoffensived and we're killed without comment and yes, this is normal because we're muslim. so we're called enemy and deemed foreign and tested and registered and yes, this is normal because we're queer. and our very being is deemed unnatural and our love and worthy and our family's laughable. and yes, this is normal because we're disabled. so we're shut out of homes and work and classrooms and sidewalks. and so it wasn't the inauguration that made it normal or not. we're going to decide today or not whether or not this is normal. >> this is democracy now!'s live coverage of the march on washington. the numbers we can't possibly estimate. "associated press" is saying maybe at this point 500,000? you've been listening to a myriad voices on the stage.

now that it's over, let's talk to some of the people in the crowd. this group is from new mexico. ok. can you tell us what your name is and why you're here, where you're from and how long it took for you get here? >> yes, i'm with the new mexico delegation. and it took us 39 hours, two buses. we picked up passengers in oklahoma. we're very proud be here. we can't divorce ourselves of our opinions, our president has one community, one sisterhood to say no to bigotry and no to -- and to stand for every one of us. every one of us. and >> what what's your grown-up's name? >> enchanted uprising! now i see someone i believe you're from? >> new york. how are you? >> good. what's your name? brianna tarmente i'm a senior in high school. >> what cool snool >> buoy moofment >> where? >> buoy, maryland. i'm originally from new york but guy to buoy high school. >> why are you here?

>> because women are equal. lbgt women, black women, white women, everyone, we should be able to stand together and unite and be equal. >> how about the person behind you? she's wearing a similar hat. > hello. are you still awake out there? are you sure about that? can you hear me? are you ready to shake up the world? welcome to the revolution of ove. to accept this new age of tyranny. we're not just women -- where not just women are in danger, but all marginalized people.

we're being uniquely different right now might truly be considered a crime. it took this horrific moment of darkness to wake us the -- up. it seems -- it seems as though we have all slipped into a false ense of comfort. that justice would prevail and good would win in the end. well, good did not win this lection. but good will win in the end. so what today means is that we are far from the end. today marks the beginning, t th

beginnnning o of our r story. he revolution starts here. the fight for the rightht to be to be e who we are eqequal. let's march together through this darkness and with each step , knonow that we are e not afra. that we are not alone. hat we willl n not back down. ththat there's power in ourur u and that no opposing forcece stands a c chance inin the face

true solidarity. and to our detractors that insist thahat this march will , -- add up to anything you. -- you! it is the bebeginning of much-needed change. change that will require sacrifice, people. changege that will require manyf us to o make different choices our lives. but this is a hallmark of revolution. so my question to you today is are you ready?

i say are you ready? say yes, we're ready. say yes, we are ready. one more time. you're ready. es, i'm angry. yes, i am outraged. yes, i have thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. but i know that this won't change anything. we c cannot fall into despair. asas the p poet w.h. alden once wrote on the eve of world war ii , we must love one another or

die. i choose love. are you with me? say this with me. e choose love. we choose love. e choose love. all right. so this leads me very beautifully into this song that i hope some of you know. are you ready? yeah? please feel free to sing along. it'll keep you warm. it'll make me happy. come on, girl, do you believe in love? because i got something to say about it. and it goes a little something like this. ♪ don't go for second best baby,

ut your love to the test you know that you make him impress how he feels and baby then you -- your love is real you don't need diamond rings or 18 indicator -- 18-indicator gold. fancy cars that go very fast you no, no.y never last what you need is a big strong hand to lift you to your higher ground make you feel like you're the queen of the throne make him love you till you expect slow down. don't go for second best baby, put your love to the test, you know you know you got to make

him express how he feels and baby then you know your love is eal love is the way to your heart but he needs to start with your head satin sheets are very romantic happens when you're not in bed so deserve the best in life you know it's time to move on second best is never enough you'll do much better baby on your own don't go for second best baby -- your love to the test you best you know you got to make yourself you've got

to make him express himself, hey, hey, hey, i can't hear you! if you want it right now, better make him show you how, express what he's got baby, ready or not express yourself so you can respect yourself hey, hey so if you want it right now, better make him show you how, express what he's got, baby ready or not new england i can't hear you! express yourself so you can respect yourself, hey, hey o if you want it right now express what he's got, baby ready or not ♪ [applause] >> thank you!

thank you very much. anand i have one more song. one more song. butt i'm going to need a little bit more audience participation. can you handle it? you have the energy for it? this next song, i can't even say his name. this is -- this song is dedicated to the new d.t. in the white house. boboo. ok. d could stand for dick. i don't know. here we go. are you ready?farmingng.

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