NEW YORK Marsha Annon and Yong Lee didnt attend the 2017 Womens March on Washington. Annon, 44, had never been to a protest in her life before Saturday. But she and Lee, 42, decided to take their 7-year-old daughter to the 2018 Womens March in New York City, joining more than 200,000 marchers locally and hundreds of thousands more around the world .

Its time for change, said Annon, who told HuffPost that it was #MeToo, specifically the Aziz Ansari story , that pushed her to march. We need to stop making excuses, and I dont want my daughter to grow up in a world where she feels pressured to do things that shes uncomfortable doing.

The day after President Donald Trump was sworn in last year, women and men across the country took to the streets, making the first Womens March the largest single-day protest in U.S. history . A year later, on the day of a government shutdown, the energy and rage are still there, bolstered by the #MeToo movement and anger at an administration that has been actively hostile to the rights of women and other marginalized groups.

In New York, the march spanned more than 20 blocks and two avenues. Marchers of all ages, genders and backgrounds carried signs with slogans like Grab him by the midterms, Harasshole, I miss science, Stop tearing families apart, Nasty women from shithole countries, Together we rise, and Fuck this shit.