Women's March: 500,000 people take to the streets of Washington amid global Trump protests - as it happened
Up to 2.5 million people gather at demonstrations all over the world
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Your support makes all the difference.More than half a million have gathered in Washington to protest Donald Trump's inauguration, while millions of others - including an estimated 100,000 people marching through London - have taken part in demonstrations around the world. Here are how events unfolded:
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- All the US protests taking place in one map
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- Some of the stars performing at the Washington march
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Women's Marches are a collective of events against the 45th President are taking place at different cities around the world. The London march is expected to be among the biggest outside the US, with thousands of protesters attending from noon.
Thousands more are expected to march on New York and Washington, while protests have also taken place in countries including Australia and New Zealand.
Organisers say they decided to organise the action due to their distress and dismay at the politician's election. Although originating in the US, off-shoots soon emerged around the world as others overseas sought to show solidarity.
Mr Trump was criticised for expressing misogynistic beliefs during the election campaign. Such criticisms intensified as video footage emerged of the politician appearing to gloat about committing sexual assault.
He has also been accused of having "ableist" attitudes after mocking a journalist who has a disability.
Concerns have also been raised that Mr Trump denies climate change and has been critical of LGBT rights.
The march is billed as "woman-led" but welcomes "people of all genders".
In its mission statement, the march organisers say: "We will march, wherever we march, for the protection of our fundamental rights and for the safeguarding of freedoms threatened by recent political events. We unite and stand together for the dignity and equality of all peoples, for the safety and health of our planet and for the strength of our vibrant and diverse communities.
"We will come together in the spirit of democracy, honouring the champions of human rights who have gone before us. Please spread the word, so that our numbers are too great to ignore and the message to the world is clear.The politics of fear and division have no place in 2017."
High profile speakers including Labour MPs Yvette Cooper and Stella Creasy are to address the crowds.
Janelle Monae is up next. "It was woman who gave you Martin Luther King. It was woman who gave you Malcolm X. And it was woman who gave you Jesus... I'm here to march against, the abuse of power."
My brother is at a solidarity Women's March in Iringa, Tanzania and someone has baked a happy uterus cake ✊???? http://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2t7_hmXUAAt6w_.jpg
In Washington, feminist leader Gloria Steinem described the worldwide mobilisation of demonstrations as "the upside of the downside", adding: "This is an outpouring of energy and democracy like I have never seen in my very long life.
"Sometimes we must put our bodies where our beliefs are," she told the crowd, labelling Mr Trump an "impossible president".
Cher told the crowd in the US capital that Mr Trump's rise has people "more frightened maybe than they're ever been".
In Park City, Utah, Charlize Theron led demonstrators in a chant of "Love, not hate, makes America great". And in New York, actresses Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Mirren and Cynthia Nixon joined a crowd of protesters marching towards Mr Trump's local home.
Well, looks like the march in Washington DC will happen:
Janaye Ingram, who is charge of logistics for the Women’s March, said it will go ahead— just not on the original route of Independence Avenue.
“We are marching and we are using Constitution Avenue,” she told the crowd, which stretched across the Mall. “We are marching north. Get to Constitution Avenue and turn left. Go to the Washington Monument, turn to the right, you will see the Ellipse.
She pointed out that the crowd already stretched that far.
“We have already achieved our goals,” she said, “but we are marching.”
Madonna now on stage in Washington and welcomes the crowd to the "revolution of love"
"Well good did not win this election," she says. "But good will win the end"
"The revolution starts here"
Madonna saying "f*** you" to those who said the march "would not amount to anything".
Repeating the phrase again means that a couple of the television networks cut away over the language...
That was from our correspondent Andrew Buncombe who is in DC with the marchers
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