Practically a thousand Philadelphians and others close by gathered in Heart Metropolis as a part of a nationwide Folks’s March to specific their concern with the insurance policies they’re anticipating from President-elect Donald Trump.
The Folks’s Marchers paraded from Metropolis Corridor down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, calling for the safety of reproductive rights and the LGBTQ+ group, immigration reform, and different causes.
The Folks’s March was born from the Ladies’s March, a motion that started in response to Trump successful his first time period in 2016, which adopted a marketing campaign based mostly on anti-abortion insurance policies and fiery rhetoric.
The Philly Folks’s March attendees different in age, from infants to older adults, and background, from union staff to metropolis politicians, like Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, who spoke in the beginning of the occasion.
In response to Folks’s March, the occasion is supposed to “unite the individuals who’ve been the spine of resistance for generations and welcome much more.” Demonstrations throughout the nation aimed to stress politicians in addition to energize grassroots activists and actions.
View the march from the bottom within the slideshow under.
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A whole bunch of individuals march previous Metropolis Corridor throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Roughly 700 individuals participated within the march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Artwork Museum in accordance with organizers of the march. -
Philadelphia resident Eric Hamell raises a selfmade signal denouncing mass deportation on the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Roughly 700 individuals participated within the march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Artwork Museum in accordance with organizers of the march. -
A member of the Philadelphia group, Granny Peace Brigade, holds an indication representing the group on the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
A member of the group, Philly Socialist Various, speaks to attendees of the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Roughly 700 individuals participated within the march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Artwork Museum in accordance with organizers of the march. -
Councilmember Jamie Gauthier speaks to the gang at Metropolis Corridor earlier than they march to The Philadelphia Museum of Artwork for the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Along with Gauthier, different metropolis officers and representatives from teams like Deliberate Parenthood and the Philly Socialist Various additionally spoke on the occasion. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Attendees of the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia cheer for audio system earlier than the march on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Audio system like Councilmember Jaime Gauthier, representatives from Deliberate Parenthood, and representatives from Philly Socialist Various spoke on the occasion. -
One of many march leaders chants with contributors as they make their well beyond Metropolis Corridor for the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia cheer for audio system earlier than the march on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Roughly 700 individuals participated within the march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Artwork Museum in accordance with organizers of the march. -
An indication depicting American businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, President-elect Donald Trump, and the world’s richest particular person, Elon Musk, is pictured throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors within the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia step away from the demonstration to point out their indicators to watchers in Dublin via The Portal set up in Love Park on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. The group chargeable for the piece, Portals.org, mentioned that the mission is “an invite to satisfy fellow people above borders and prejudices and to expertise our house – planet Earth – because it actually is: united and one” in accordance with the group’s web site. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
An attendee of the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia stay streams the occasion on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. The occasion’s web site states that “all of us march for various causes, however we march for a similar trigger: to defend our rights and our future.” (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
A participant within the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia makes an attempt to cowl the Israeli flag on the Ben Franklin Parkway with a flag supporting Palestine on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. The occasion was organized in response to the present political local weather in America along with the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. One of many indicators pictured expressed solidarity with Luigi Mangione, the Upenn graduate who allegedly murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York Metropolis in December 2024. -
Contributors maintain up indicators as they march down Benjamin Franklin Parkway throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators as they march down Benjamin Franklin Parkway throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Charleigh, 7 months, holds an indication in help of the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia given to her by her mom on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Contributors of all ages got here collectively to march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork forward of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025.(Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025.(Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators as they march down Benjamin Franklin Parkway towards the Philadelphia Artwork Museum throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators as they march down Benjamin Franklin Parkway towards the Philadelphia Artwork Museum throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Philadelphia resident Jane Wiedmann poses for a portrait forward of the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Wiedmann additionally attended the Ladies’s March in Washington D.C. in 2017. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. Roughly 700 individuals participated within the march from Metropolis Corridor to the Philadelphia Artwork Museum in accordance with organizers of the march. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. The march was a “second to remind Washington elites — and People all over the place — the place the facility really lives: with the individuals,” in accordance with the occasion’s web site. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt) -
Contributors maintain up indicators throughout the 2025 Folks’s March Philadelphia on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (Pictures by Erin Blewitt)