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Keep That Feeling Alive: More Photos

by TaMara|  January 28, 20178:30 am| 29 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Your Place Is In The Resistance, Sweet Fancy Moses!

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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.

 

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  1. 1.

    aimai

    January 28, 2017 at 8:39 am

    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.

  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    January 28, 2017 at 8:42 am

    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.)

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    January 28, 2017 at 8:45 am

    @aimai: I’ve got a post on that coming up shortly. It’s sickening.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    January 28, 2017 at 8:48 am

    @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.

  5. 5.

    amk

    January 28, 2017 at 8:50 am

    Let’s see if twitter thingy embed is working.

    Trump order begins by invoking 9/11 three times

    9/11 hijackers were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE & Lebanon

    None of those countries banned pic.twitter.com/WaRyiBZ1S0— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 28, 2017

    Cool. Thanks, Alain.

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 28, 2017 at 8:56 am

    @amk: Of course.

  7. 7.

    Oldgold

    January 28, 2017 at 9:03 am

    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.

  8. 8.

    greennotGreen

    January 28, 2017 at 9:09 am

    @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…

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    January 28, 2017 at 9:12 am

    @Oldgold: He also called them “fake news.” Here’s my tweet in response:

    @realDonaldTrump is unfit, @HouseGOP & @SenateGOP; see 25th amendment. https://t.co/b45ahlhEao

    — Betty Cracker (@bettycrackerfl) January 28, 2017

  10. 10.

    chris

    January 28, 2017 at 9:18 am

    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!

  11. 11.

    EZSmirkzz

    January 28, 2017 at 9:30 am

    @ThresherK: Closest I could find on the numbers was here at the count dot com.

    Organizers told The Washington Post that they didn’t expect to match the Women’s March or the inauguration attendance, but they did expect hundreds of thousands to show up. The Women’s March on Washington was attended by an estimated 485,000 people last Saturday.

    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.

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    January 28, 2017 at 9:32 am

    @Betty Cracker

    In another universe he’s sitting in a corner, drooling, wearing a straitjacket, with a Napoleon hat sitting askew on his head.

  13. 13.

    MomSense

    January 28, 2017 at 9:33 am

    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.

  14. 14.

    oldster

    January 28, 2017 at 9:37 am

    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?

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    January 28, 2017 at 9:38 am

    @MomSense

    knitted knockers

    Discretion prevents one from asking…

  16. 16.

    Iowa Old Lady

    January 28, 2017 at 9:42 am

    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.

  17. 17.

    MomSense

    January 28, 2017 at 9:44 am

    @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.

  18. 18.

    greennotGreen

    January 28, 2017 at 9:45 am

    @NotMax: Yes, but Google doesn’t get embarrassed. Knitted knockers.

  19. 19.

    Peale

    January 28, 2017 at 9:46 am

    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.

  20. 20.

    Ohio Mom

    January 28, 2017 at 9:49 am

    @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.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 28, 2017 at 9:54 am

    @NotMax: I read that and thought “Ouch…”

  22. 22.

    zhena gogolia

    January 28, 2017 at 9:54 am

    @Oldgold:

    What’s going to stop it?

  23. 23.

    TS

    January 28, 2017 at 10:03 am

    @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.

  24. 24.

    geg6

    January 28, 2017 at 10:24 am

    @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.

  25. 25.

    Larkspur

    January 28, 2017 at 10:39 am

    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.

  26. 26.

    Nora

    January 28, 2017 at 10:49 am

    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.

  27. 27.

    nelle

    January 28, 2017 at 11:26 am

    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.

  28. 28.

    Betty

    January 28, 2017 at 12:52 pm

    It’s a shame all those people look so angry and all – NOT! What a great day that was.

  29. 29.

    patrick II

    January 28, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
    The failing @nytimes has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!

    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.

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