Employees set up barricades on the Nationwide Mall on January 5, 2025. (Photograph by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Photographs)
The Girls’s March in 2017 drew a much bigger crowd than Donald Trump’s first inauguration, which was overshadowed by different protests in DC as properly. Trump’s convincing victory final yr has taken a whole lot of the air out of the #Resistance that greeted his first time period. However that doesn’t imply the streets will probably be empty for his second inaugural.
Right here, from Nationwide Park Service data and different reviews, is an inventory of demonstrations and protests deliberate for the times that encompass Inauguration Day. They’re all occasions at which organizers say they anticipate greater than 1,500 attendees:
• Saturday, Jan. 18: The Individuals’s March on Washington. Organizers instructed the Park Service they anticipate 50,000 folks at Freedom Plaza and the Washington Monument grounds. The Girls’s March (whose 2017 rally reportedly drew round 470,000 folks) is among the many organizers of the occasion, which is able to kick off at 10 AM at Farragut Sq., McPherson Sq., and Franklin Park, then culminate on the Lincoln Memorial.
• Sunday, January 19: A Trump “victory rally” is deliberate for Capital One Area at 3PM. You can register right here.
• Monday, January 20: The Reply Coalition’s Nationwide Day of Motion begins at 11 AM at Malcolm X Park/Meridian Hill Park. There will probably be a rally after which a march, a spokesperson tells Washingtonian.
• Monday, January 20: The Rev. Al Sharpton’s Nationwide Motion Community’s MLK Day 2025 demonstration will start at McPherson Sq. at 10:30 AM, then march to Metropolitan AME Church (1518 M Road, Northwest) at midday. The organizers inform NPS they anticipate 1,500 folks.
• Friday, January 24: The Nationwide March for Life will stage its annual rally on the Washington Monument grounds at midday, with a march alongside Structure Avenue and across the US Capitol to the Supreme Courtroom at 1 PM. Organizers instructed NPS they anticipate 150,000 folks. Home Speaker Mike Johnson spoke ultimately yr’s march.
