Women walk out across US in protest against Trump

THOUSANDS of women across the US are staging a mass walkout to protest against Donald Trump’s election victory.

Women in the US are hoping a mass walk out will encourage the electoral college to formally vote against Donald Trump.

THOUSANDS of women across the US are staging a mass walkout to protest against Donald Trump’s election victory.

They have pledged to not go to work or buy anything for 24 hours to demonstrate their value and contribution to society and the economy, and are demanding the electoral college vote against the President-elect when it meets next week.

Women from 29 cities including Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Denver plan to attend the nationwide event organised by the Women & Allies group.

Emily Rems shared a photo of the Women’s Walkout protesting against the President-elect outside the Trump International Hotel in New York, where one woman held a sign that read “Girls just wanna have fun-damental human rights.”

Activists in Portland, Oregon, held placards reading “#Votehimout” and “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Carisa Miller posted on Facebook: “Today we will join many thousands across the country, in 29 sister cities, in protest against the normalisation of sexual assault, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, unconstitutional behaviour, cronyism, and hate promoted under the representation of Donald Trump.”

At the Women's Walk Out protesting the president-elect outside the Trump International Hotel. #notmypresident: pic.twitter.com/JmdwZnmFMa

— Emily Rems (@emilyrems) December 12, 2016

The strike is inspired by the mass protest in Iceland in 1975, where 95 per cent of women stopped working, cooking or taking care of their families, which paralysed the country and brought about significant reform, The Independent reported.

It comes a week before the electoral college is due to meet on December 19 to formally select the next president. The demonstrators hope to persuade them to use their constitutional right to cast their votes against Mr Trump.

The leaders say they are against the President-elect’s policies relating to the Affordable Care Act, women’s reproductive rights and civil rights and liberties.

“The future of the United States as a free country and our civil and human rights depends on preventing a Trump presidency from rolling back the progress of the last fifty years,” they said.