The Portland Womxn’s March once again will take a different path than the national Women’s March in 2019.

The local organization, which is not affiliated to the national Women’s March, will not hold a march on Jan. 19, when many other marches are scheduled, according to a press release posted on Facebook. Instead, the organization will schedule a march “around International Women’s Day,” at a date as yet to be determined in March.

Portland drew 70,000 to 100,000 people to the streets of Portland on a rainy Sunday in January of 2017 to protest the election and policies of the then-newly inaugurated President Donald Trump. The turnout exceeded expectations but the event was dogged by controversy.

The original organizers of the event were replaced just weeks before the march when accusations of racism and transphobia led the NAACP to withdraw its support.

In the weeks after the march, organizers publicly fought over the fate of thousands of dollars in donations and t-shirt sales.

The Oregon Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into the missing Portland Women’s March funds after the 2017 event. The Criminal Division of the Oregon Department of Justice has since referred the case to Multnomah County District Attorney’s office and the investigation is still pending, Brent Weisberg, spokesperson for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s office said on Tuesday.

In 2018, the Portland iteration of the Women’s March became several different marches. The main Women’s March was canceled, said the Facebook event for a new march called the Indigenous Womxn's March, "but the matriarch will continue taking the streets on our Indigenous lands wearing red."

Candi Brings Plenty, founder of the Two Spirit Nation, which hosted that march, told The Oregonian/OregonLive over Facebook that the new march would be a "response to the under represented womxn and allies who were offended by the white feminist narrative that took over the face of the march."

Accusations of racism have also plagued the national Women’s March leadership, which organizers addressed in the press release posted to Facebook.

“We share the concern of many Portlanders about problematic behaviors and statements from the National Women’s March,” the release said. “We condemn language and actions of hate directed at the Jewish community as well as any actions that exclude, demean and/or harm any group or community that is subject to oppression.”

This year organizers decided to move the Portland march so it wouldn’t coincide with the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend.

“We encourage all who planned to participate in our original date to take community action with us on January 19th,” read the press release, “to join us as we gather in solidarity with the Reclaim MLK March on January 20th, and to rally and march together around International Women’s Day.”

Not everyone is happy about the change. Facebook commenters called the new date “lame” and “very disappointing.” But others applauded the new focus and wrote about plans to travel to marches in Salem and Seattle.