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At least 20,000 people participated in the Women’s March on Sunday morning, the anniversary of the first Women’s March in Phoenix, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
Sunday’s march began with several speakers addressing issues like gender bias and the importance of voting.
The march started and ended at the Arizona Capitol Museum on 17th Avenue and Washington Street, following an approximately 2-mile loop spanning to Jefferson and Eighth Avenue.
Marchers’ signs and chants touched on reproductive rights, immigration reform, voter registration, female empowerment and strong anti-Trump sentiment. Several referenced the #MeToo movement.
Some groups stood along the march’s route, such as the “Honoring Indigenous Women Leading The Women’s March,” which drew attention to missing and murdered indigenous women.
The march occurred one year after the 2017 Women’s March, which was held in several states and countries the day after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and was regarded as the largest single-day protest in American history.
