A crowd of nearly 5,000 people took to Cambridge Common in support of women's rights on Saturday one year after President Donald Trump's inauguration.

Organizers say the March for Women, organized by a number of left-wing political groups, is a call to action. Despite its name, the march had a wide variety of aims, many of which went beyond women's rights.

Organizers said healthcare, tax cuts and recent political actions on immigration are all issues that lay at the heart of Saturday's event.

In light of a government shutdown tied to issues of immigration, spokesperson Zayda Ortiz -- who also emceed the event on Saturday -- said the Cambridge march is aimed at supporting marginalized people like immigrants and transgender people.

"Every speaker that we have is touching on what we think is important, standing up against Islamophobia, fighting for our immigrant neighbors, fighting for the trans rights bill that's coming up before the [Massachusetts] ballot initiative for 2018," Ortiz said. "We think that's something important."

When asked what specific actions of the Trump administration the march is meant to oppose, organizer Michelle Cunha told MassLive, "Anything that Trump has done."

Cunha works as the assistant director of march-organizing group Massachusetts Peace Action, which endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential election.

Cunha said this week that the Trump administration's efforts to eliminate Obamacare and give tax cuts to the wealthy are felt "more acutely" by women and marginalized groups.

The shortlist of speakers on Saturday included a wide variety of people. Mass. Attorney General Maura Healey, Rep. Marjorie Decker (D-Cambridge) and Cambridge Mayor Marc McGovern were all in attendance. Healey bashed the president, calling him "an embarrassment" who demeans women of all kinds.

"It was important to me, and to a lot of the organizers, that we had a variety of people who identify as women speaking...who have different life experiences than the average woman in Cambridge," said Ortiz.

Nationally, many "sister" marches are being held across the state and country. From Northampton to Lowell to Nantucket, women's rights rallies are planned around Massachusetts Saturday and Sunday.

Las Vegas is expected to host one of the largest protests across the country this weekend. Organizers of the 2017 Women's March are planning "Power to the Polls," a new national movement to mobilize voters. Organizers say the location was chosen because Nevada has the power to influence the Senate majority in the mid-term elections.

Similar marches took place last year, and the one in Boston pulled in over 170,000 people.