Organizers had originally planned to gather Saturday on the National Mall, but with a weekend snowfall expected and the National Park Service no longer plowing the snow, the march’s location and route was altered on Thursday.
In November, Teresa Shook, one of the movement’s founders, publicly accused the four main leaders of the national march organization of anti-Semitism based on their criticism of Israeli policy and ongoing association with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
The march organizers have denied the charge, but an alternate women’s organization has sprung up in protest and will be holding a parallel rally in New York.
Cities big and small across the Pacific Northwest are holding a version or multiple versions of the Women’s March over the weekend.
Several thousand had gathered for the “Seattle Woman Marching Forward” rally and march through downtown Seattle on a sunny Saturday morning.
It was largely peaceful but organizers expressed disappointment that another group of women’s rights activists was hosting a similar event on Sunday.
