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Trump's apparent fixation with the number of people who attended his inauguration is the target of this placard. The US president insists the media is downplaying the true size of the crowd. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
Many protesters in London chose to make their own placards. Here, protesters mockingly say that retail outlet Argos is known for better-quality cabinets than the one Trump has formed. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
This protester felt her anger at Trump was best expressed in rhyme form. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
Many protesters poked fun at the US president's trademark tan. 'Curse this orange president', reads this placard in Arabic. [Al Jazeera]
This message appears aimed at Sean Spicer, Trump's press secretary, who has suggested a five-year-old could pose a security threat. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
This barb aimed at Theresa May refers to Hugh Grant's character in the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually. In one scene, Grant, who plays a British prime minister, breaks convention by publicly criticising the US president at a press conference both are attending. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
Many of those protesting had links to the countries affected by the US travel ban. When asked what her sign meant, this woman said it was a Persian way of telling Trump to 'get lost'. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
This placard mocks a false assertion by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway that two Iraqi refugees had carried out a massacre at Bowling Green, Kentucky. No such event took place. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
This protester suggests there are limits to the British tradition of resolving issues over a 'cup of tea'. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
A prevailing theme on placards throughout the protest was the need for different communities to unite. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
These men turned up to protest a series of comments by Trump on Mexico, including an accusation that immigrants from the country are rapists. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
The march drew backing from many communities, including these LGBT activists. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
These American women were eager to point out that many of their compatriots were also demonstrating against the ban. [Shafik Mandhai/Al Jazeera]
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Hundreds gather at Brooklyn Borough Hall in the Brooklyn Heights neighbourhood in the early afternoon. Organisers set the eight-hour strike from 12pm and planned a rally for nightfall, but participants began to arrive immediately after closing their stores. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Wagdi Naji, 20, who owns Unity Grocery on President Street in Crown Heights together with his father, smokes a cigarette shortly before closing the shop around noon. 'I got a wife and daughter back in Yemen. I want to bring them but now I can't,' said Wagdi. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Originally from Sana'a, Mohammed Almashmally stands with his sons Ahmed (11) and Zachariah (7). 'There are a lot of people being held in the airports. This is why where are here together today. Everybody now is affected by the [executive actions], not only Muslims." Almashmally joined the strike closing five of his own businesses. 'We love this country. I don’t know why he came up with these laws. I have friends who have been sent back from JFK and people stuck in Djibouti and Malaysia, all over.' [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Arafat Aljamal, 28, who is on first-name terms with most customers, prepares an egg sandwich just before closing Crown Heights Deli and Grocery. 'I'm not concerned just as a businessman. I grew up in this neighbourhood, I learned in these schools and I have a lot of friends and relatives and everyone here, they are like family to me, not just regular customers.' Aljamal's pregnant wife Thikra and nine-year-old son Yasser are back home in Aden on the coast of Yemen. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Hagaan Aljamal, 30, closes down Crown Heights Deli and Grocery as his father Mohammed looks on. Mohammed owns the bodega with his friend and partner Ali Saleh, also from Yemen. With the exception of today, in 40 years of co-ownership, the men have never closed the store apart from on scheduled holidays. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
'Everyone is welcome here,' says 12-year-old Ahmad Shehan, after being hoisted up during a chant. 'This is New York City for everybody. Donald Trump is garbage. He don’t know nothing. He's crazy.' Ahmad came from the Ibb province in Yemen just one year ago and has since learned English. 'I study in my home every day.' [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Qaisar Alnaham, 17, prays with hundreds in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall. 'I came here to protest against Trump,' says the teen, whose family owns a Manhattan bodega and came over from Sana'a in 2013. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Participants observe afternoon Muslim prayers around 3pm. News of the strike was spread via Facebook and word of mouth. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Ahmed Almakrai, 16, came to New York with his parents and five siblings three years ago. 'We deserve more. He can't just one day change everything. At least he's got to show some respect,' says the teenager whose parents own a bodega in Manhattan. 'He needs to take his words back. This is about the whole world - it’s something important.' [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Usama Husaibi, 19, bows for the evening Maghrib prayer on an American flag just before the planned rally. He came with his family one year ago. They own a deli in Brooklyn Heights. 'I came to say no to Trump. No wall, no ban.' [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Protesters hoist each other up and march through surrounding pavements near Brooklyn Borough Hall echoing chants such as 'What do we want? Justice!' and 'No ban, No wall, USA is for all!' [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
While participants gathered immediately after closing up shop around 12pm, the demonstration lasted into the evening, with a rally featuring public officials and local Yemeni citizens and activists. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
Towfeik Alkubadi, 52, stands behind the counter of 369 Deli Grocery Inc with signs that customers had posted on the door while he and co-owner and nephew Mohammed were away at the demonstration. 'It made me cry,' he says, with a slight Brooklyn accent despite a childhood spent in Yemen. He offered visitors coffee on the house for the rest of the evening after returning to re-open his 24-hour bodega in the Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn. [Kelly Lynn Lunde/Al Jazeera]
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