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Women’s March On (Your City Here): Let’s Meet-Up

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When Betty posted this morning about attending the Women’s March on Washington, I saw there were a lot of people going to local marches. There is one in Denver:

Women’s March on Denver

January 21, 2017
9 am – 3 pm
Denver’s Civic Center Park
Marching in Solidarity for Human Rights…
Sponsored by Women, For Everyone! 

Any Colorado folk want to do a meet-up for the march. Even if I can’t make it, I’ll help organize it.

Why don’t we use this thread to see if we there is any interest for meetups in other cities.

And I’m hoping Betty C and anyone else going to the marches will live blog/tweet their adventures – or at least provide photos after the fact.

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  6. 6.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    San Francisco (with links to Oakland and San Jose). I’m going to attend and will also donate a little $$ for event costs. Speaking of which – whether you can attend your local march or not, please consider donating to it to offset organizational and permit costs.

  7. 7.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    A suggestion going around the Raleigh marchers is to wear your zip code across your back. We’ve had so many protests dismissed as “people bused in from California” that we want a definite statement of “We’re locals!”

  9. 9.

    Starfish

    I am probably going to the Denver march. There are a number of busses coming from the northern suburbs, and there is a bus being brought up from Colorado Springs to get us if there is enough interest to fill the additional bus so I am waiting to get confirmation that I have a place on the bus.

  13. 13.

    debbie

    I can’t attend a march, but I’d sure like to buy a pu$$yhat, if only to casually toss it onto a chair when I walk into my Trumpster brother’s house.

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    There are at least three others in WA besides the one in Seattle: Olympia/Tacoma (not sure which city it will be held in), Yakima, and Spokane.

  20. 20.

    Marvel

    I’ll be marching with friends in Eugene, OR.

    I put together something for our placards & patches — the underlying rose is lifted from an uncredited photo of graffiti (otherwise I’d credit the artist/photographer). Feel free to use. http://imgur.com/a/d4GAw

  27. 27.

    FlipYrWhig

    @JPL: Well I guess MSNBC really meant it when they made that whole lousy post-election ad about how the farmer and the cowman, er, I mean, the Democrat and the Republican should be friends.

  30. 30.

    hovercraft

    @JPL:
    I’m sad to say that this will actually be an improvement over ALL DUE RESPECT with Mark Halpern and sidekick, which is what it’s replacing. Kelly is being replaced on FOX by Greta’s last replacement. Tucker Carlson is moving from 10 to 9. Nice to see that both networks are intent on “improving” their lineups.

  31. 31.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Miss Bianca:

    depends how I feel after my colonoscopy…

    A most fitting procedure for Inauguration Day, methinks. Seriously though, good luck! If you’ve never had one before, the prep is far worse than the thing itself IMHO.

  37. 37.

    randy khan

    I’m hopeful that arranging a meetup in Washington, DC on the day of the event will be a logistical impossibility. And based on the number of my Facebook friends who appear to be coming to town, and the number of locals hosting other visitors, I’d guess that will be the case.

  38. 38.

    Chris

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    depends how I feel after my colonoscopy…
    …
    A most fitting procedure for Inauguration Day, methinks. Seriously though, good luck! If you’ve never had one before, the prep is far worse than the thing itself IMHO.

    Yes. It is. That is a true fact. The most disgusting thing you’ll ever drink.

  43. 43.

    The Moar You Know

    Yes. It is. That is a true fact. The most disgusting thing you’ll ever drink.

    @Chris: The new stuff is fine. You drink a pint of the stuff, drink three pints of water (slam ’em is my advice) and shit nonstop for an hour or two. Repeat in the morning. I have had visits to the dentist that were far worse than my colonoscopy.

    The old stuff was truly awful, gotta admit that.

  44. 44.

    Nelle

    I have to be down in Wichita and there will be one there, as well as one in Topeka, Kansas. So three in Kansas and one just over the border in Kansas City, Missouri.

  45. 45.

    Miss Bianca

    @O. Felix Culpa: Not to derail the thread into a discussion of my bowels, but yes…the irony of “the procedure” being scheduled around Inauguration Day has not been lost on me. It was more or less deliberate, not as a commentary on the Inauguration per se but to make sure that I got it while it was still covered as an essential procedure by the ACA.

    @ArchTeryx: Dozens? Dear God. You have all my sympathy. Unless you’re doing them for fun, as Martin suggests, in which case, uh.. //

  46. 46.

    sempronia

    Going to San Jose; I wish I could go to the SF event, but I have to stick around San Jose that day.

  49. 49.

    KarenH

    I’m in San Antonio and plan to drive over to the march in Austin if anyone in the area wants to ride along. Also, a meetup with other Juicers at the Austin march would be great.

  50. 50.

    germy

    WASHINGTON – Top U.S. intelligence officials say Russia poses a major and growing threat to U.S. government, military, diplomatic and commercial operations – as well as America’s critical infrastructure.

    National Intelligence Director James Clapper and other intelligence officials are testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focused on Russia’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election. They say Russia is among at least 30 nations that are developing capabilities to launch cyberattacks.

    President-elect Donald Trump has expressed skepticism that Russia was behind the election hacking.

    U.S. intelligence agencies disagree.

    The officials aren’t expected to disclose details of a report on foreign influence in U.S. elections before President Barack Obama gets a briefing on that report Thursday.

    This is how my local news tv station website is spinning it. I expect the comment section to be flooded in a few hours by conservatives saying “I don’t see the problem. Russia helped educate the electorate so they could choose wisely.”

    I often wonder why I read the comments on my local news websites.

  53. 53.

    raven

    @KBS: Nice pic of Betty Friedan , Bella and Billy Jean and two of my friends are going to that one so far!

  55. 55.

    zhena gogolia

    @Chris:

    As I understand it, there was bad old stuff, then there was good new stuff, then the good new stuff got taken away because some people abused it for weight-loss purposes and got kidney problems, so we’re back to the bad old stuff. But that was a couple of years ago, so I’m not sure.

  56. 56.

    raven

    @The Moar You Know: The split dose is much better but I don’t know that the stuff itself tastes and different. Drinking it through a straw with Crystal Lite helps a great deal and so does a low fibre diet for several days ahead.

  58. 58.

    hovercraft

    @germy:

    I often wonder why I read the comments on my local news websites.

    You want a new computer and are looking for an excuse to buy one? I can’t imagine how the monitor got smashed into a million pieces, honest.

  59. 59.

    JPL

    This is why we march..

    Ivanka’s top adviser on child care and women’s issues? A Goldman Sachs official.

  61. 61.

    Deborah Elaine Gerish

    @Starfish: Any buses coming from further north? I’m in Greeley and have already knit one Pu$$y Hat. They’re super fast and I’ve got pink yarn to use up.

  62. 62.

    cckids

    Here’s the march in Vegas. I’m not positive I can go – we’re actually moving to Seattle either that weekend or the next one. If I’m still in town, I’ll be there!

  63. 63.

    germy

    @hovercraft: You should see some of the fucking comments left on my various local TV news websites. You’d weep.

    One genius said he had no problem with Russia hacking the election; they were merely providing voters with information (emaiz!) that voters could use to make an intelligent decision (drumpf!)

  64. 64.

    MomSense

    There are two in Maine. One is in Augusta and the other in Brunswick. Not sure I can take time from work to go but I’m going to try to get to one of them.

  66. 66.

    misterpuff

    @O. Felix Culpa: Don’t want to hijack a thread, but colonoscopy prep makes for a crazy night…..

    I’ll be back in Chicago on the 21st . May have to take a walk downtown.

  67. 67.

    BCHS Class of 1980

    There is one scheduled for St. Pete on 21 Jan 2017. The main URL is here. My wife is going; just curious as to whether there are any Juicers on the north side of Tampa.

  68. 68.

    RoonieRoo

    @KarenH: I’m currently planning on going to the one in Austin. Just waiting to see if I can get a ride from a neighbor or if I need to plan to get into town myself.

    Anybody else planning on going to the Austin one?

  71. 71.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Anyone going to the one in downtown Los Angeles want to meetup?

    I will be arriving towards the latter part of the event (I work until noon and then have to catch metro from Pasadena.)

  74. 74.

    FlyingToaster

    I’ll be at the Boston Women’s March (though I may have to join it already in progress), wearing a Wonkette Hell, No! hat. And a parka, because Back Bay in January.

  75. 75.

    Mikefromarlington

    I’d like to org one in Dublin, Ireland. Bet I could get some dubs to march against that sexist pig.

    Who can I speak to about logistics?

  77. 77.

    hovercraft

    @germy:
    I only read comments at places like this, life’s too short to allow racist, misogynistic trolls to raise my blood pressure.

  80. 80.

    germy

    Frank Rich is brutal. I thought he was a theater critic?

    How much longer will he be able to outrun these questions?

    I’d say about three more weeks. Of course he’ll always be able to outrun some questions. We are never going to see Trump’s tax returns. We are never going to know the new First Lady’s immigration history. (Or we won’t unless and until someone in the federal bureaucracy is sufficiently provoked to leak.) But once he’s in the White House, he will no longer be able to punt by making the empty promise that “I’ll get back to you by Tuesday” on his plans to, say, address the next Hurricane Katrina or government shutdown or economic cataclysm or foreign threat. He actually will be held accountable by voters, including maybe even the minority of Americans who voted for him on Election Day. Bluffing won’t do in a crisis, tweets won’t do — only action will do. And it seems that he has no idea that producing concrete action in Washington is not as simple as picking up the phone and browbeating a frightened corporate wuss at Carrier, Boeing, or Ford to save a pittance of American jobs.

    Whew!
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/donald-trumps-pretend-time-is-almost-over.html

  81. 81.

    SuzyQ

    I admit I mostly lurking here, but seeing all these marches scheduled makes my heart swell. And to see there’s a march in Mexico makes it even better. I hope there are marches worldwide. It’s a beautiful thing. I’ll be doing my part in Pittsburgh as well.

    Let’s keep it up!!

  82. 82.

    Josie

    @KarenH:I’m in the northeast corner and don’t know my way around San Antonio very well yet, but we can meet somewhere or I can find you. I’ll need to make sure i have arrangements for animal care and such. I’m out of town right now, but I’ll check into it when I get back next week. Email me if you like through one of the front pagers with your plans and I’ll see what I can work out.

  84. 84.

    KarenH

    @Josie: If you are northeast, I can probably pick you up without it being too far out of the way. We can figure something out, I’m sure.

  90. 90.

    Josie

    @KarenH: That’s very generous of you. I’ll work on arrangements next week. Never done this before, so I’m kind of excited.

  92. 92.

    wuzzat

    @The Moar You Know: The split dose stuff I got was vile. Vaguely fruit-flavored poisonously bitter chemicals. I accidentally drank a shot of liquid floor polish once and it tasted better than Suprep.

  93. 93.

    Tazj

    @germy: Are you sure that wasn’t my Congressman Chris Collins-R NY That’s pretty much what he said. The hackings revealed the “truth” about how deceitful Democrats are.

  95. 95.

    Joy in FL

    @BCHS Class of 1980: Thanks to your post, I just signed up for the St. Pete March. A few days ago, I searched for something close enough but did not find the “sister marches.”
    Someone in a different thread said something about BJ folks carrying green balloons so we could recognize each other. Maybe that’s a thing we could do.

  96. 96.

    ms_canadada

    There’s one in Toronto, Ontario, St. Catherines, Ontario, and Buffalo, NY. St. Catherines is closest to me, but my sister-in-law and I are considering crossing the border to go to the one in Buffalo. Resist!

  97. 97.

    KarenH

    @Josie: I sent TaMara a request for your email and she will wait to hear from you, then she will exchange both our emails. It will be easier to work out the details that way.

  98. 98.

    debbie

    @germy:

    His theater critic days ended long ago. He moved to the NYT Op-Ed page for a few years before leaving the paper. I liked his stuff on both pages. Far better than New York Magazine’s John Simon!

  99. 99.

    Hungry Joe

    Colonoscopies (I’ve had one) are a breeze because they zonk you out, and you kind of drift dreamily through the whole thing. Sigmoidoscopies (I’ve had two) are BAD: It’s a less invasive procedure, so they don’t drug you at all. Count on six or seven minutes of extreme discomfort. The fact that it’s a type of pain I’d never felt before was only mildly distracting. But when it’s over, it’s over. No after-effects at all.

    As for drinking The Stuff, I made a huge mistake and watched “Back to the Future III” while going through the process. As a result everything about that movie now disgusts me. (Fortunately the first two flicks remain unaffected.)

  100. 100.

    Tazj

    @ms_canadada: Thank you. I just saw on our local news that Buffalo Resistance organized a protest outside the fundraising event held for Trump today in downtown Buffalo, which was attended by Kellyanne Conway. That was nice to see.
    I see on the Buffalo Resistance Twitter feed that they do have marches planned for January 21st. I can’t attend because I work Saturdays but I’m glad to see there is something going on in my area. I’m hoping to make it to the Erie County Democratic Committee meeting on 1/23.

  101. 101.

    ceece

    @sempronia:

    I would like to go to the San Jose one also. Since San Jose starts at 10, and the SF one is at 4 pm, I might be able to make both. I think I will need a lot of chances to scream that weekend.

    I’ll find a green balloon to wear, if that will make it easier to meet up.

  104. 104.

    Feathers

    I will be at Boston, wearing my Pussy Hat. My knitting group is knitting hats to wear. I have some violently hot pink yarn with reflective thread running through it – I will be like deer’s eyes in car headlights, only pink.

    I have more pink yarn, so if anyone wanted one to wear to Boston, we could meet up beforehand.

  106. 106.

    Farthestnorth

    Haven’t been to a big demonstration since Vietnam war but I’ll be in Denver. Great public transportation to downtown so that’s easy. And my sister is knitting me a pussy hat so I can go in style

  108. 108.

    Debbie(aussie)

    I found sister events in Melbourne and Sydney here in Aus. Unfortunately too far for me. I will be with you all in spirit. Good luck!

  110. 110.

    orchid moon

    I am interested. Anyone going from Longmont? Or does anyone have a most efficient public transportation way to get from Longmont to the walk in Denver?

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