The Resistance Now: thousands to march on Saturday – and then to the polls Activists plan to continue demonstrations against Trump into the midterms, while in Vegas activists are meeting to shape their political strategy in 2018

The Resistance Now: thousands to march on Saturday – and then to the polls

Activists plan to continue demonstrations against Trump into the midterms, while in Vegas activists are meeting to shape their political strategy in 2018

Protesters march against racism in New York on Friday. Photograph: Alba Vigaray/EPA

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Thousands will march Saturday. But what next? It’s the anniversary of the historic Women’s March on Saturday, and tens of thousands are planning to march in cities across the country. Here’s a tool to find marches in your area. But what’s going to happen after that? What do activists have planned for 2018? Linda Sarsour, a co-chair of the Women’s March, told the Guardian the energy on the streets must have an impact at the midterm elections. “One year ago, we had millions of people marching in the streets,” Sarsour said. “The idea is that we march the same people and their families and their friends to the polls in 2018.” Meanwhile, in Vegas While people are on the streets on Saturday, thousands of activists will be meeting in Las Vegas to lay out a framework for the year. “Power to the Polls” is a national voter registration and mobilization tour that will target swing states ahead of the 2018 midterms.

The Women’s March in DC in January 2017. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

“Anything we want to achieve within this movement is not going to happen until we have the right people in government,” said Vanessa Wruble, executive director of activist organization March On and an organizer of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. “So let’s first focus on getting the right people into office.” As part of this, MarchOn will launch a national poll on Saturday, in an attempt to crowdsource a political platform and shape its political strategy in 2018. Chronicling the year in anti-Trump art The work of more than 80 artists has been brought together in New York to document the resistance to Trump. The pieces address the first 12 months of Trump’s presidency, with commentary on immigration, LGBTQ issues and gun control.  “This artwork, this movement, is specifically about our president, his words and actions and policies. It’s about someone who is trying to annihilate our progress,” curator Indira Cesarine told the Guardian’s Jake Nevins.

Joel Tretin’s “Selling Guns Like Gumballs”. Artwork Featured at The Untitled Space ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE exhibit. Photograph: The Untitled Space/Couresty of The Untitled Space

One piece shows a vending machine stocked with handguns. Another shows a neon lit map of the US with the words “closed for renovation” inside. A piece called “White Gloves” has a pair of pink boxing gloves above a sign saying “Resist”. “It’s always important to make sure the exhibit isn’t overly repetitive or gimmicky,” Cesarine said. “We’ve seen enough images of Trump as a devil. It’s time to move on from that. That’s why there are very few representations of Trump in the show; most of the pieces are really about the issues.” The show is at The Untitled Space in New York until 4 February. Some reading “What might the progressive politics of the 2020s and 2030s look like?” wonders John Harris in the Guardian. Government should “move tax policy towards concentrations of wealth and assets, not least land and property”, Harris says. At the same time, “one basic principle should sit at the core of the left’s vision of the future: that of a universal basic income” – paying everyone a basic wage. Harris’s article focuses on the UK, but there is plenty there that is applicable to the US and elsewhere.