Women's March in London and other cities set to ramp up pressure on Donald Trump

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Miranda Bryant12 January 2018

Women's March organisers in the States today said they would use their next global protest to try to weaken the Trump administration in the run-up to the midterm elections.

The first march made history when an estimated five million people — including 100,000 in London — took to the streets around the world the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The organisation is planning a rally in Las Vegas for the one-year anniversary on January 20 and 21, with hundreds of other events taking place worldwide. A London Women’s March will take place in Richmond Terrace on January 21.

Paola Mendoza, 38, right, a film-maker and artistic director of Women’s March, said: “The world has seen in the past year or so a move to the Right and embracing authoritarianism… what was great about January 21 was that the entire globe came together and said, ‘We stand against this.’” But she added that huge progress had been made since then thanks to the #MeToo movement in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.

Now organisers’ focus is on November’s midterm elections before which they hope to have significantly weakened the Trump administration. At the Las Vegas rally they will launch the Power to the Polls campaign, which aims to boost voter registration in swing states.

Sarah Sophie Flicker, another organiser, who along with Mendoza features in a new book on the movement, Together We Rise, said: “The truth is we can really probably swing both houses [of Congress] if we’re really focused.”

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