Women's March On Washington 2017

If you’re wondering where a march might be in your area, this seems like a useful listing:

https://pincause.com/pages/getting-involved-1-21-17

http://womensmarchonamerica.org/find-a-march/

I think the marches can start to bring some unity back into these communities. The rhetoric during the campaign was so negative and so divisive. Community events like this can help bring people back together. I don’t believe anyone thinks this is going to change anything in DC, but I think the sheer number of people participating will speak volumes.

@CountingDown, wave to the cameras! It’d be great to see you. And wouldn’t it be fun to have a CC meeting of nasty women :smiley:

Great link @doschicos. Wow look at Canada! We know who has our backs.

^They probably don’t want all of us trying to move in. That wall would be costly for them. :slight_smile:

@marvin100 There might be a march even where you are. :slight_smile:

Just for me, and for me alone, I can speak to the question of “why.”

I have seen millions be completely fine with denigrating and mocking people that look, act, and move like I do. I have had people subtly and overtly say that lives like mine are just a drain on society and the economy. I am watching millions jump with glee at taking away my lifeline, without realizing the negative effects it will have on their own lives.

For me, this march will be a reminder in mass numbers that I am not alone. That the people I described above are not the only people whose lives and voices matter. That there are literally tens and tens of millions of people who stand by me and people like me and will continue to fight so that our lives continue to matter and so that not only one type of voice is heard in DC for the next 2-4 years.

Again, I speak only for me and I hope that was apolitical enough not to cause a ruckus :slight_smile:

I wonder if I can have a Nasty CC Woman hoody made… :slight_smile:

Has anyone seen Alec Baldwin’s new baseball cap? Says “Make America Great Again” but it’s written in Russian. He is hilarious – that’s a hat I might wear!

There are other fish to fry here, @doschicos :
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/world/asia/korea-park-geun-hye-protests.html

@HarvestMoon1 - OMG. Where can we get that!!!

Kiddo just looked it up and is rolling on the floor. Lol, it is google translate X autocorrect LOL!

Yeah, @marvin100 but there is one in Seoul :wink: and you folks have become such good protestors there you can teach us a few things.

Nowhere yet but I am going to bet someone will be selling them within a week or so. He just posted the pic of himself with the hat 10 hours ago.

https://img.vidible.tv/prod/2017-01/07/58712f571c689938f9431cc4_o_F_v2.jpg

Make Russia Great Again might be appropriate. :slight_smile:

Good one, @doschicos! If the temperatures keep dropping, I might need to embroider that mesage on this:

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Winter-Shapka-Ushanka-BROWN-metric/dp/B00IMIR898

:slight_smile:

( @doschicos – I’ll look for it, but it’s actually illegal for foreigners, even permanent residents, to take part in political activities here.)

You strike me as someone who bends the rules, @marvin100, so here’s the info. It looks like you can protest Gangnam style.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/womens-march-on-seoul-2

@Bunsen I actually have a shapka ushanka – H was on a business trip to Moscow and brought them back for me and the children. They would actually be perfect for the 21st – they are really warm.

I’m really not :slight_smile:

I’ve been thinking about the DC March since it was announced but am glad there’s one much closer by, in Ithaca, in case the weather is bad that weekend. I can stay at my daughter’s house in Maryland and take the Metro in but I need to have a more concrete plan than that for getting to the right spot.

I’ve been looking at aerial photos of past marches in DC and thinking about myself in the middle of a crowd that size. It makes me a bit anxious (about feeling claustrophobic, for one thing, and being able to get to a bathroom, for another) and I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to be on the outer fringes of the crowd. But I think when you’re at an event that large, you have to expect not to be in control of much.