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September 16 – Mother of All Rallies at The National Mall in Washington, D.C. [60] September 18 – Restoring Freedom: March to protest the Family Court systems. [51] September 30 – March for Racial Justice; [61][62][63] March for Black Women.
Timeline for September following the September 11 attacks. The September 11 attacks of 2001 were a major event that had a significant long-lasting impact even beyond the day of the attacks itself. This article summarizes events which relate to the attacks in the remaining days of September 2001. News coverage was significant in the period after ...
March 3, 1913: Woman Suffrage Procession: Between 5,000 and 10,000 people marched through Washington, D. C. in support of the women's suffrage movement. Organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns and sponsored by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it turned violent when onlookers attacked the suffragists.
Drawing on that party's tight organization, ANSWER attracted an estimated 8,000 people to their first major action, an "Anti-War, Anti-Racist" rally and march in Washington, D.C., primarily in protest of the then impending invasion of Afghanistan. This rally occurred on September 29, 2001, a mere 18 days after the September 11 attacks.
On November 10, 2001, after weeks of bombing, hundreds of protesters took to the streets across the United Kingdom to call for an end to the bombing of Afghanistan. In Bolton 250 people gathered in the town's Victoria Square. In York, about 200 protesters called for an end to the war during a two-hour demonstration.
The United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., became the meeting place of the United States Congress when the building was initially completed in 1800. Since that time, there have been many violent and dangerous incidents, including shootings, fistfights, bombings, poisonings and a major riot. The first significant incident was an act of war.
Protesters outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend.
Washington A16, 2000 was a series of protests in Washington, D.C. against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, that occurred in April 2000. [1][2] The annual IMF and World Bank meetings were the scene for follow-on protests of the 1999 WTO protests. In April 2000, between 10,000 and 15,000 [3] protesters demonstrated at the IMF ...