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The Women’s March returned on Saturday at 650 events across the country to protest the near-total ban on abortion enacted in Texas

”These bills not only negatively impact reproductive freedom and voter rights in Texas, but set a dangerous precedent across the United States,” they write.

Local group Women’s March Alliance organized the march on Manhattan’s Upper West Side on Saturday. Happening at the same time in Foley Square was the Women’s Unity Rally, held by the national Women’s March organization, which has been embroiled in allegations of anti-semitism.

Cher spoke at Women’s March Anniversary: Power to the Polls in Las Vegas, NV, while in NYC comedian Aparna Nancherla was a co-host and Halsey delivered a powerful, moving poem.

The Women’s March returned to cities worldwide in 2018, including Chicago, where attendance this year surpassed the 2017 edition.

Almost a year to the day after the 2017 edition, thousands of people took to the streets of NYC once again on Saturday (1/20) for the 2018 Women’s March. 72nd St and Central Park West was this year’s official starting point, but streets were clogged with marchers blocks away.

The 2017 Womens’ Marches, which took place in Washington D.C., NYC, Chicago, and throughout the world on January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, brought out millions of people, including many musicians.

In honor of International Women’s Day, A Day Without A Woman inspired strikes, rallies, and protests nationwide.

Among the participants in the marches included many musicians, like Best Coast, members of The National, Haim, Amanda Palmer, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YaRdS, Grimes, Michael Stipe, Tegan & Sara, Madonna, Janelle Monae, Regina Spektor, members of Wilco, Perfume Genius, Kim Gordon, Chelsea Wolfe, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Eleanor Friedberger, Torres, Mary Timony, Angel Olsen, Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak, Dan Deacon, and more.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) Priests frontwoman Katie Alice Greer organized a sold-out anti-inauguration show, with a lineup that easily beat Trump’s own, called “NO THANKS: A Night of Anti-Fascist Sound Resistance in the Capital of the USA” at DC’s Black Cat last Friday (1/20). It being Inauguration Day, […]