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Women's March on Washington |OT| An intersectional march for all in 600+ cities

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brandywine said:
DC organizers put the estimate at 1.3 million.
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As in just D.C. Or all over?

Favorite shot from Madison, WI. Taken above in the capital building.
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brandywine said:
DC organizers put the estimate at 1.3 million.
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I would believe this. The mall was packed from at least 3rd to 12th, independence where the rally actually took place was packed from 2nd to 14th, each numbered street from 3rd to 15th was packed from independence to F Street NW (so 8 blocks). Thats a lot of area with wall to wall humans.
 
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I don't think I've seen a crowd that large in San Diego before, it was easily 40k. I didn't attend, but I work in downtown. All of Broadway was just full of people and they were pretty loud. It was actually quite impressive.

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More_Badass said:
Here's a new one: my brother asked my dad why people are "rioting" over Trump
"It's just racism. Did anyone riot when a black man was a president. But now you have a white person as a president, and you have the racists burning limos and causing violence over a peaceful transition" (in sum and substance)

That's the perspective of people who listen to right-wing news have of this
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Not to butt into your life or anything, but have you tried talking to your dad about it? A way of getting people to slowly change is by trying to discuss it with those who are closest to you.

Honestly I feel like that's why people's attitudes changed towards the LGBT community so much in the past 20 years. Because people who were originally opposed to it were exposed to it by their children, close friends, etc. and then some of them changed their minds about it.
 
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Wow, women on CNN arguing about the march, criticizing it for not welcoming pro-life marchers and asking "howcome they didn't ask Kelly Anne Conway to speak?"

Like. Seriously. What the fuck is happening.
 
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MazeHaze said:
Wow, women on CNN arguing about the march, criticizing it for not welcoming pro-life marchers and asking "howcome they didn't ask Kelly Anne Conway to speak?"
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Because every time she opens her mouth you can see the tentacled horror in the back of her throat and it grosses everyone out.
 
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Oh my goodness at that new DC estimate. I can't wait for all the estimates to come in from around the world to see what the final number will be.

What a great day.
 
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I was talking to a coworker today, who I assumed to be a Trump supporter (I work in a pretty conservative area and have heard no end of Fox News talking points), and she started talking about the inauguration. I was just nodding, ready to tune her out, when she mentioned how glad she was that the protest today was bigger. She sort of hesitated saying it, probably thinking I was a Trump supporter. We both agreed that we should have ditched work to go.

It made my day so much.
 
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ONE POINT TWO? Holy shit.

I was a little underwhelmed when I finally reached the barricade overlooking the White House (the Ellipse, for DC folks), and saw everyone spread out. But, like everyone's mentioned, it's just because there wasn't one march in DC, there were basically like dozens of sister marches.

One thing I did notice: no helicopters. The FAA has restrictions on flying in DC, so that's not terribly unsurprising in some respects, but I would've loved to see an aerial shot of the city basically covered in pink.
 
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Shame I couldn't make the march in London, but I'm too ill to do so.

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Without devising a means to channel the energy into the ballot box starting in ten months (state level) or some other directly impactful form of protest besides a march, there's no ability to impact the federal government because those in power, having gained control of all levers without the protestors past support, have no reason to listen.

The Guardian, a notorious Murdoch-run pro-Trump propaganda outfit from London, put together a list that went well beyond Occupy to note how ineffectual these marches can be.

His thin skin may be a differentiating factor
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The hell are you talking about?

The Guardian is a centre-left newspaper that has nothing to do with Murdoch.
 
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Retro said:
Counter Point: It's literally his first day in office. This is just getting started. Today was important because it demonstrates two key facts;
1. Trump has no mandate and does not represent the will of the people.
2. Those who oppose Trump are not alone and have not been beaten.​
What comes next is absolutely important (and to be clear I'm not attacking you for bringing up a very good point), but the first thing you have to do in a fight like this is stand back up after you've been knocked down. I can't speak for everyone, but I feel like I've been down since Election Day and needed something like today to restore a measure of hope and defiance in place of despair.

Whatever comes next, today was a goddamn good day and we haven't had one of those in far too long.
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Maybe you can at least establish some sort of network/mailing list for each area, and then if a particular policy hurts women a lot for example, you could flood particular house reps or state reps with phone calls.
 
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I think a lot of the aerial photos of the mall area of DC march were a bit misleading. They really don't show Independence Ave. (The street a block over on the right) where the main festivities were. That entire street for blocks were completely packed where you could not easily get to that area from the mall.
 
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Advocatus Diaboli said:
ONE POINT TWO? Holy shit.

I was a little underwhelmed when I finally reached the barricade overlooking the White House (the Ellipse, for DC folks), and saw everyone spread out. But, like everyone's mentioned, it's just because there wasn't one march in DC, there were basically like dozens of sister marches.

One thing I did notice: no helicopters. The FAA has restrictions on flying in DC, so that's not terribly unsurprising in some respects, but I would've loved to see an aerial shot of the city basically covered in pink.
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Yesterday there were at least three helicopters in the air at all times. On a normal day in DC there are two-four helicopters alternating all day. That there were no helicopters today was indeed odd.
 
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1.3m marchers in D.C. alone. Nuts

Advocatus Diaboli said:
ONE POINT TWO? Holy shit.

I was a little underwhelmed when I finally reached the barricade overlooking the White House (the Ellipse, for DC folks), and saw everyone spread out. But, like everyone's mentioned, it's just because there wasn't one march in DC, there were basically like dozens of sister marches.

One thing I did notice: no helicopters. The FAA has restrictions on flying in DC, so that's not terribly unsurprising in some respects, but I would've loved to see an aerial shot of the city basically covered in pink.
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ZSaberLink said:
Maybe you can at least establish some sort of network/mailing list for each area, and then if a particular policy hurts women a lot for example, you could flood particular house reps or state reps with phone calls.
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I mean, you don't really need a list or anything. Every time Trump does anything that seems off, people should be calling their local representatives.
 
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25,000 here in San Jose. I had thought it'd be pretty small since there are several Marches across the Bay Area, glad I was wrong.
 
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CreepingFear said:
WTF?

How did that work out? Where were they in relation to the Women's March?
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For one anti-abortion group, women's march was 'brutal'

I have such a hard time identifying with these people. People shouldn't be spitting on them or ripping signs if that even happened. Start spewing crap like this I have a hard time feeling bad.
“Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry do not own Women’s Rights. Call it feminism, call it commonsense, call it whatever you want. The idea that women are equal human beings is not new, it’s not owned by one group, and abortion advocates are the least consistent with this principle,” Hendrickson wrote.
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CreepingFear said:
Anyone see counter-protesters? I was a route guide, so I had to pay attention to other things, but I didn't notice any counter protesting.
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There were a couple out at ours, but there was a drumline group marching with us and whenever the pro-Trump people on the other side of the street started getting noisy, the drumline starting playing each time. lol
 
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More_Badass said:
Here's a new one: my brother asked my dad why people are "rioting" over Trump
"It's just racism. Did anyone riot when a black man was a president. But now you have a white person as a president, and you have the racists burning limos and causing violence over a peaceful transition" (in sum and substance)

That's the perspective of people who listen to right-wing news have of this
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Yep.
 
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Ac30 said:
Hopefully the DNC can figure out how marshall this energy into positive change.
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Maybe the lesson of this election is that the main political parties are dinosaurs trapped in the past that motivated citizens movements are dragging into the 21st century for better and worse. This is a reminder that democracy is an engine that runs on revolutionary energy.
 
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More_Badass said:
Here's a new one: my brother asked my dad why people are "rioting" over Trump
"It's just racism. Did anyone riot when a black man was a president. But now you have a white person as a president, and you have the racists burning limos and causing violence over a peaceful transition" (in sum and substance)

That's the perspective of people who listen to right-wing news have of this
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I don't even fucking understand this.

How old is your brother? Because I have a hard time believing that your dad is trying to gaslight him.
 
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