@“Cardinal Fang”, NOPE is my favorite one, too.
@PetraMC, I think I’ll make a double sided sign because I just love “Accept existence or Expect Resistance”!!
My mom just sent me a link for the pink pussy hats and asked me if I knew anyone who could make her one.
I mentioned earlier that my mom is not a marcher and prefers to protest through other means… but she is going all out on this one. I asked her why and she said they’re messing with her baby (meaning me and health care). They’re trying to get a few younger women (meaning my age) that they know up north to make the drive with them down to Lansing. These women work in an HIV clinic and they’re scared of what’s going to happen to their state and federal funding.
I love my mommy :x
ods and his fiancee who live in D.C. are walking down to the march. I’m proud of them.
@romanigypsyeyes I love your mommy too! That’s awesome!
Shoot too late to edit. I thought I had included the link to the story:
“Pussyhat Project has hot pink yarn flying off Michigan shelves”
http://www.freep.com/story/news/2017/01/12/pussyhat-project-womens-march/96355616/
Watch out:
Confirmed: https://www.womensmarch.com/faq/
You people are giving me goosebumps!
I want to add 2 more to our count. I invited my college Sr D to march with me in our local San Diego march. She’s so excited and I might win some’cool’ Mom points.
Thanks for getting me motivated everyone!
That’s great @coralbrook! I also invited my college Sr D, and we will be marching in OC! (H is joining us too!)
This thread has been so inspirational…
Regarding violence…someone would be really stupid to start something against their Moms, Sisters and Daughters
My D has dropped her plan to go to DC and will march in NYC instead. Her bf refused to go to DC because he has to work. I am relieved. I am having a tooth out that day at an appointment I have waited two months for but I told her that if she came out here afterwards, we would take them to dinner and she could tell us all about it.
Of course no backpacks. They are worried about bombs, like the Boston Marathon.
Probably no backpacks on Inauguration Day either.
My original plans have changed and I’m now going solo. I think I have a good strategy for getting there and I’m just going to trust whatever gods may be that violence won’t mar either day. I’ll admit it skeeves me out a little bit to read the tip about putting a contact number on my arm with a Sharpie marker. I know I’ll say “really?” to the mirror when I do it because I’m the least badass person imaginable. Taking heart from those aerial photos of past marches and demonstrations. Somehow those folks found their way back to the right Metro station afterwards so I probably can, too.
If you want a buddy to march with, you are welcome to join us, @frazzled1
Just found out my next-door neighbor and her family from Dallas are coming down to march. She asked me to join them, but I’m already pregaming with friends. Getting excited!
I hate crowds and become claustrophobic. My plan is to bring up the tail end of the march.
I won’t be able to hear much but I can catch up on that on the news.
Yes, I am concerned that there could be violence here given what happened for many days
after the election. I am thinking it will begin on inauguration day and continue–perhaps wrecking the
march here.
There is a children’s march one hour earlier. Maybe I will go then–a new thought.
I posted earlier that I probably wasn’t going to go, but my friends have persuaded me to go (to the LA one) for the camaraderie, if nothing else. I’m having a really, really hard time with this and as Friday comes closer I find I’m crying at random times and I feel a deep, overall sense of despair. My friends have convinced me that the march may feel uplifting and may be good for my own mental well-being (regardless whether it has any political effect). Based on that, I’m now leaning toward attending. The good news is my office is only a few blocks from the route so I’ll have easy access to a bathroom.
nottelling, there are many of us who have those emotions - a mixture of despair and outrage and disbelief. I find it does help me to know I’m not alone with those feelings – and that’s one of the reasons I decided to march instead of flee the country this week. So good for you for joining us, and getting the support from the hundreds of thousands who feel as you do.
Welcome to the march, @nottelling