The last of my photos. I cannot tell you how much having all your emails and photos in my inbox got me through this week. Thanks for entrusting your journey with me and I hope I covered everyone and didn’t misplace any, it wasn’t intentional.
The top photo and these are from Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
comrade scott’s agenda of rage sent in several from the St. Louis march and I had a hard time choosing:
You know how I love my slideshow links, this one is from David of the Asheville, NC march, I pulled one, but you can see the rest here (it’s Facebook but it’s open to the public without an account).
From janeform, more from the DC march:
I drove to DC from Michigan with 5 friends, among them artists who made the Pussy Wagon sign on the back of our van, and two big banners for the march. It was a party and a feeling of solidarity all the way. On the road, people beeped and waved when they saw our Pussy Wagon sign, one woman waved a bra out the window (70’s!).
Among the many people we met at Ohio Turnpike rest stops, one group had Barack, and it was so good to see him (in the photo, I’m in the middle with my mouth open). The most touching sign I saw at the march was “TAKE WHAT YOU NEED.” Soul-nourishing at a time when we all need it. The experience was extraordinary.
And finally, from the Greensboro march:
Woolworth building where the historic lunch counter protests started in 1960 on Elm Street…
That’s all I have now, but if you haven’t had time to send photos to me, I’ll still take them and post them next week.
aimai
Thanks for that! I needed that with today’s news about the crackdown on syrian and muslim refugees and visitors. Very concerned for green card holders, too, who are apparently being turned down for renewal. I think we are about to find out just how many vulnerable people there are in this country.
ThresherK
NYT did its damndest to make the “Every Sperm is Sacred March” trickle look like a flood* in their above-the-fold photo and caption this morning. How few thousands are they talking about?
(*I meant to do that.)
Betty Cracker
@aimai: I’ve got a post on that coming up shortly. It’s sickening.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: The Guardian is doing live updates.
A legal challenge has been filed against Donald Trump’s executive order, which imposes a three-month ban on refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries and from Syria permanently.
The New York Times reports that lawyers representing two Iraqi refugees detained at JFK airport filed a challenge against the measure on Saturday, demanding their clients be released and proposing a class action in a bid to represent all refugees and migrants affected.
One of the refugees detained was named as Hameed Khalid Darweesh, who is said to have worked on behalf of the US government in Iraq for 10 years. The second detained refugee, Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, was reportedly travelling to New York to join his wife and young son. They had both arrived in the US on Friday night, travelling on seperate flights.
amk
Let’s see if twitter thingy embed is working.
Cool. Thanks, Alain.
OzarkHillbilly
@amk: Of course.
Oldgold
More deranged and malicious tweets against the media this morning. Called WAPO and NYT “DISHONEST.”
How long can this out of control Mad Hatter presidency last? My guess is no longer than the Fourth of July. It is so much worse than I feared.
greennotGreen
@amk: Yeah, but none of those four countries is currently on the teevee news, so Donald probably doesn’t know about them. Syria, on the other hand…
Betty Cracker
@Oldgold: He also called them “fake news.” Here’s my tweet in response:
chris
He’s pissed of BigTech. Google ordered it’s people home yesterday in an effort to beat the executive order. Microsoft also had some words. Interesting times! Happy New Year!
EZSmirkzz
@ThresherK: Closest I could find on the numbers was here at the count dot com.
So there isn’t any accurate count of Coat Hanger Christians marching in DC, although we can expect that many of the prolifers to show up at the next antiwar demonstration, and death penalty protests at the Supreme Court, except for those limping around on two opinions, which would reduce the turnout of Coat Hanger Christians to near zero at the other two prolife events when and if they should occur.
I can’t imagine why people leave that religion for the FSM.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
In another universe he’s sitting in a corner, drooling, wearing a straitjacket, with a Napoleon hat sitting askew on his head.
MomSense
Trying to finish up the knitted knockers I’m working on this weekend so I can start making more pu_syhats next week.
Love all the photos. I got an email from the march organizers. They included a set of next steps we can all take. In addition to calling my Senators and Rep every day, I’m going to see how I can help the local Somali community. We may all need to register as Muslims very soon.
oldster
So what are the estimates on yesterday’s Anti-Choice March?
I saw Jezebel had a charming picture of 5 or 6 Forced-Birth White-Boys, but that’s not the whole crowd.
So who has heard more reliable numbers?
NotMax
@MomSense
Discretion prevents one from asking…
Iowa Old Lady
In the interview with Muir, Trump said only fools would call it a war crime to seize Iraq’s oil. It occurred to me that he thinks the people calling it a crime are saying it in the same way someone might say paying 8K for a purse is a crime. He thinks they’re just saying they disapprove. He doesn’t know that looting is forbidden under the Geneva Convention.
MomSense
@NotMax:
Exactly what you think they are! They are for people who have had mastectomies but not reconstruction. They are far more realistic feeling than the traditional pads.
greennotGreen
@NotMax: Yes, but Google doesn’t get embarrassed. Knitted knockers.
Peale
I’m starting to get confused by all of the different classes of visa holders, but I wish the press would take the time to learn it. Not everyone from Iraq is a refugee. And not everyone is an immigrant.
Ohio Mom
@NotMax: Foobs. Fake breasts for women who have had mastectomies. Distributed for free, lighter and often more comfortable than the heavy silicon ones that cost hundreds of dollars.
ETA:I see that others have already answered. I’ll add a public service announcement. Though rare, men can also get breast cancer in the small bits of breast tissue they have behind their nipples.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I read that and thought “Ouch…”
zhena gogolia
@Oldgold:
What’s going to stop it?
TS
@Betty Cracker: He uses “the failing NYT” in the same way he used “crooked Hillary”. If he says it often enough, people will believe him & any influence the times may have had will be lost. He has learned well from Goebbels how to get his propaganda out there.
geg6
@Ohio Mom:
My boss had breast cancer. He’s coming up on ten years. He had a mastectomy. It was an eye opener for me, especially after watching m mom wage a losing battle over breast cancer.
Larkspur
I really appreciate the sign that says “…I’m someone. That should be enough.” That’s me. I’m glad to see someone say it.
Nora
The New York Times front page article about the coathanger squad referred to “droves” of protestors and chose a picture for the front page that made it look like a lot of people. The picture on the continuation of the article (well inside the first section) made it very clear that the numbers were small, even smaller than those of the inauguration, let alone the women’s march.
nelle
My FIL got breast cancer and was given six months to live. He was diagnosed in 83 or 84. He died in 2013. I married into a tough bunch.
Betty
It’s a shame all those people look so angry and all – NOT! What a great day that was.
patrick II
@Betty Cracker:
The NYTimes and other normal people were not wrong about Donald Trump from the beginning — he is clearly mentally ill and should not be president. — we were wrong about our fellow Americans. I am not surprised Republican leadership supported him as much as they did, after all they let thousands die every year from lack of medical coverage because it is profitable to do so, however I was surprised that people I know and others I don’t who could live with a level of denial that would allow over sixty million of them to vote for a crazy man.