Meet the Women Who Protested the Women’s March

Women from various political and ideological backgrounds challenged the 2019 Women’s March by marching in protest and organizing alternative rallies near the Washington, D.C. event on Saturday. The third annual Women’s March took place in Freedom Plaza, a more confined space than in years past, suggesting that organizers anticipated smaller crowds after facing allegations of anti-Semitism and defending Nation of Islam’s anti-Semitic leader Louis Farrakhan.

Following the development of those controversies, conservative group Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) organized a rally across the street in the name of “all women” at the same time as the Women’s March. New Wave Feminists, which stands against abortion, also “marched in protest” during the Women’s March.

Tammy Bruce formerly served on the board of the National Organization for Women and as president of its Los Angeles chapter before leading Independent Women’s Voice, the sister organization to Independent Women’s Forum.

“It doesn’t make much sense to begin and push through in a movement that kind of demonizes other groups of women, whether it be Jewish women or women, ironically, who don’t conform,” she told National Review at IWF’s event.

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