The Women's March, which protested the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration and remains politically active, is reconvening to organize for the 2018 midterm elections.
Supporters will convene at the Women's Convention, which will bring together organizers of the Jan. 21 march in Washington, D.C. as well as "sister" marches across the country, USA Today reports. The event will be held in Detroit from Oct. 27-29.
The convention will focus on, among other things, training organizers and prospective candidates for 2018. The March claims that its strongest local chapters are in Republican-leaning or dominated states like Ohio, Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia.
"Bringing us all back together, I think, will truly be a historic turning point for the women's movement and all of the most marginalized groups in this country who, as you saw from Charlottesville, are under attack," said Bob Bland, one of the march's original organizers.
Responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. over the weekend, March leaders worked with a coalition of 16 partners to organize over 700 vigils in less than 24 hours.
The convention is not the March's first action since Trump's inauguration. Recently, protesters marched from the National Rifle Association's headquarters in Fairfax, Va., to the Department of Justice in support of a variety of causes, but mainly to oppose the NRA.
The organization has not been without its fair share of controversy. It attracted condemnation from the mainstream media last month for its celebration of Assata Shakur, a convicted cop killer and wanted felon currently hiding in Cuba. One of its leaders, Linda Sarsour, is a regular subject of controversy; but all of the March's leaders, including Sarsour and Bland, were condemned in a recent New York Times op-ed for their embrace of radical and sometimes anti-Semitic figures.