Voices4Hillary was in DC Friday and Saturday. Friday was The National Day of Mourning, and a grim day. We protested as the Inauguration was occurring. The day was grey and as the man who claims the White House started to speak, the rain began. According to the National Park Service and the Washington Post, there were twice as many protesters (500,000) to the inaugural attendees (250,000).

Saturday was a much more positive day, as hundreds of thousands of women and men arrived into the nation's capital. The weather remained clear. While the organizers said that this march wasn't organized to oppose Trump but the attendees made clear why they were there by the signage which they carried, denouncing Trump, expressing gratitude and love for Hillary Clinton, and speaking loudly for women's rights, immigrants rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, economic justice, transgender rights, 1st Amendment rights, peace.

Gloria Steinem was one of the key speakers at the Women's March.

Here is her amazing speech.

Here is a sample of what the March looked like.

These familiar pictures of the empty inauguration have been published near and far. Here is MSNBC's photos comparing Trump's inauguration to the Women's March itself.

Domestically, the women's marches were estimated at 3.0 - 3.5 million marchers. Here are some sample tallies from American cities.

Las Angeles 750,000

New York 500,000

St Paul 100,000

Seattle 100,000

Madison, WI 100,000

San Francisco 85,000

San Jose 85,000

Oakland 85,000

Atlanta 60,000

Philadelphia 50,000

San Diego 40,000

Houston 20,000

Phoenix 20,000

Tucson 10,000

Sacramento 10,000

Kansas City 10,000

New Orleans 10,000

Charlotte 10,000

Nashville 10,000

Raleigh 10,000

Miami 10,000

Olympia, WA 10,000

According to the organizers for the event in Washington, there were 637 different protests around the world.

These marches were the largest recorded protest marches ever against an Inaugurated President.

Now, we get ready - for the next step of resistance.

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January 22, 2017