Rising Up In the Streets: Women’s March 2025

On Saturday March 8, 2025, thousands of women and others gathered for a march and rally in downtown Los Angeles to mark International Women’s Day organized by the Women’s March. When the Women’s March held a protest on Donald Trump’s first term inauguration day, January 21, 2017, organizers estimated 750,000 people turned out. While only a fraction of that number gathered this year–about 3,000-5,000–the message remained militant: demands for the Trump administration to back off on attacks against women’s rights, immigrant rights, people of color, transgender people, and more. Among the speakers was acclaimed civil rights icon Dolores Huerta.