Women's March - Did anyone go?

holyguacamole79 · January 2017

Curious to see if any of y'all went. I didn't for several reasons, but I do stand with the women who are unified to protect women in light of the recent inaguration.

OurWildKingdom · January 2017

FW went to the one here in Cleveland. I had prior commitments, or I would have gone as well.

MCmeow · January 2017

I wish I could've gone. My brother went. He's been travelling around and had the chance (and car) to. LUCKY.
And to be honest, unfortunately with my fiance's "status" we have to avoid any chance of getting in trouble until he gets a green card, sometimes people get pointlessly arrested at marches and protests just because authorities don't like the 1st amendment (noDAPL). We don't know how strict Trump will be to DACA-mented people, there are rumors that even people with non-violent offenses may get deported. Once he adjusts his status we'll be riling things up!

But to those that went, thank you for fighting for us! There are more of us than there are of them!

CMGragain · January 2017

My daughter was standing next to the National Museum of the Indian on the Mall. She was proudly carrying a sign she made. She said that due to the huge crowds, they couldn't actually march. She couldn't hear what was happening up front, either, but she lead some chants with her big, trained voice. She did run into Rush Limbaugh and shared a piece of her mind! She returned home in the afternoon, without any incidents.
I am a proud Mom!

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NavyBlue143 · January 2017

I went to the one here in Dallas. Small, but still several thousand more than were anticipated, considering it was thrown together in a week. One of the groups of speakers were from the Cherokee nation, which I thought was cool, because they seem to get left out of so many of these conversations, and Native women are one of the most vulnerable populations.

I just hope this doesn't turn into a lot of sound and fury like the Occupy movement did, and we manage to turn this into actual voter turnout and legislative change. We need to take a few pages from the Tea Party circa 2008 book.

Jen4948 · January 2017

Yes. I went to the one in Houston.

kimmiinthemitten · January 2017

Ann Arbor Michigan here! 11,000 at our rally and about 40k total in Michigan. It was awesome. It was organized by students at the University of Michigan and included speakers like Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and the first female VP of the UAW. The group was diverse in ethnicity, gender and age. Dingell told some great stories including about her first interview at GM when the male interviewer asked why a female would want to work there, and now a woman is CEO of the whole damn company! It was a truly, truly great day and reports are coming in that marches were held on all 7 continents and exceed 4 million participants globally!

STARMOON44 · January 2017

I was there in DC. It was just incredible. Beyond words.

ei34 · January 2017

My sisters, mom and I went to the NYC march. Great crowd, and I hope we sent the message to anyone who feels victimized by Trump and his cronies that their rights matter.

And of course I've been on Facebook and instagram fighting with the "but what rights are you fighting for?" people. It's only like 5 of my friends but it feels like 500

holyguacamole79 · January 2017

Jen4948 said:

Yes. I went to the one in Houston.

Aw man- I almost went, but I've been fighting a cold the last few weeks, so I didn't want to get more sick. I saw great pictures, though!

kimmiinthemitten · January 2017

@eileenrob I've been fighting the "it is his first day, give him a chance" people. I don't like waiting for politicians to pass shitty laws to speak out. I like to reach out early and often and remind them the decisions they make impact real lives and encourage them to change their minds. Hopefully yesterday was a reminder to the 33 Senators and 435 Congresspeople that they are on our watch for the next two years.

ei34 · January 2017

kimmiinthemitten said:

@eileenrob I've been fighting the "it is his first day, give him a chance" people. I don't like waiting for politicians to pass shitty laws to speak out. I like to reach out early and often and remind them the decisions they make impact real lives and encourage them to change their minds. Hopefully yesterday was a reminder to the 33 Senators and 435 Congresspeople that they are on our watch for the next two years.

Yes! I so agree! Like yeah it's his first official day in office but his hate-based campaign began months ago, his disrespect of Obama began years ago, and his con-man ways began decades ago. It's not like he just appeared on Friday.

MCmeow · January 2017

kimmiinthemitten said:

@eileenrob I've been fighting the "it is his first day, give him a chance" people. I don't like waiting for politicians to pass shitty laws to speak out. I like to reach out early and often and remind them the decisions they make impact real lives and encourage them to change their minds. Hopefully yesterday was a reminder to the 33 Senators and 435 Congresspeople that they are on our watch for the next two years.

Seriously this is so annoying. Essentially they expect the person they voted for to lie. We all know what he said and promised, this is what we should react to. To say we should wait means he's back peddling on everything he said, which is great for us but it should make HIS supporters angry, but they support him no matter what. We live in a stupid world.

MissKittyDanger · January 2017

They were also in Canada, and my mum and I debated on going but she was tired/sore and I was also sore.

MandyMost · January 2017

I went in Boston, with my husband and 8 month old baby girl. It was huge, estimates are at 175k.

My responses to the people who don't support, or don't understand, the protest is to say I (and the marchers in general) believe in two things:
1) we believe that people deserve equal rights regardless of gender, race, sexuality, or religion, and
2) we don't believe people all of these groups currently have equal rights.

Then I ask which of those 2 things they disagree with.

justsie · January 2017

I stopped by the one in NOLA, but we were in town for a wedding so it was just a quick stop. I wished I could have been more involved.

CMGragain · January 2017

Here in Colorado, a lot of people work for the National Park Service. Nobody is happy about the President's first day. We had a special prayer for him in church - that he gains wisdom.
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Ro041 · January 2017

I didn't go because I have had this overwhelming "what's the point?" attitude towards everything the past few days.

short+sassy · January 2017

justsie said:

I stopped by the one in NOLA, but we were in town for a wedding so it was just a quick stop. I wished I could have been more involved.

I don't know if you caught this part, but they had a Jazz Funeral for Liberty as part of the NOLA Women's March.

levioosa · January 2017

I went to the march in DC.

kimmiinthemitten · January 2017

MandyMost said:

I went in Boston, with my husband and 8 month old baby girl. It was huge, estimates are at 175k.

My responses to the people who don't support, or don't understand, the protest is to say I (and the marchers in general) believe in two things:
1) we believe that people deserve equal rights regardless of gender, race, sexuality, or religion, and
2) we don't believe people all of these groups currently have equal rights.

Then I ask which of those 2 things they disagree with.

I'm a big believer that everyone should attend at least one political rally type event at least once in their life for whatever cause they believe in. This happens to one of my causes.

I have told people even if they disagree or don't understand this march, if they have never been to one, they should and should soon because something changes within in you when are able to be a part of something that is bigger than you are.

charlotte989875 · January 2017

@kimmiinthemitten a bunch of my students were in Ann Arbor, too. I would have been in my in laws hadn't been in town.

I did spend most of Saturday (and a lot of time since then) explaining to people that "what are these women complaining about" is not that we're "sore losers", or "mad our girl didn't win", but that we have good reasons to be afraid of the Trump policies. Trying to do my part.

southernbelle0915 · January 2017

levioosa said:

I went to the march in DC.

Me too!

mandypants90 · January 2017

OurWildKingdom said:

FW went to the one here in Cleveland. I had prior commitments, or I would have gone as well.

Yay Cleveland! I had the same thing..

justsie · January 2017

short+sassy said:

justsie said:

I stopped by the one in NOLA, but we were in town for a wedding so it was just a quick stop. I wished I could have been more involved.

I don't know if you caught this part, but they had a Jazz Funeral for Liberty as part of the NOLA Women's March.

I did not catch this part. I'm off to see if I can find more articles about the march there!

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