Things get tricky, however, when we try to reckon whether the event will be remembered, in comparison to, say, the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963 and Mao Zedong’s Long March in 1949. Tens of thousands of women and their supporters took to the streets of Washington D.C.and other cities to participate in the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday, January 20, 2017. The Women’s March movement was sparked off, according to Reuters, by a Facebook request for a women’s march by Teresa Shook in Hawaii. Marches were planned in about 60 countries around the world in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington. Madonna’s threat of blowing up the White House and scores of other women’s march speeches are probably already forgotten today.

Source: Manila Times January 23, 2017 16:57 UTC