When you send photos, please tell me your nym so that I can give credit.
From HumboldtBlue in northern California, who sent a lot of photos, not all of which are posted.
From aimai: Mr Aimai and I have already been to vigils and protests last week in Boston, our home town. This weekend we were in Portland Maine to celebrate 23 years of marriage but we drove up with signs ready and hit the ground running at Portlands rally. I guestimate 1,500 people? Very fired up and justice focused.
The first photo is Aimai and Mr Aimai.
From Uncle Ebeneezer in Pasadena. Again, lots of photos, not all here:
From jackmac, occasional Balloon Juice commenter (and keeper of Daisy, Balloon Juice calendar girl)
More to come! I’m going to take some time off, will be back later.
Schlemazel
Fudge, I sent my pictures to Betty because she did the last bunch. Plus I don’t know your email address. Oh well, they were not that great anyway.
Hot but very crowded. It was a good showing for Minnesota. Closer to the 100k that showed up for the womens march than the 50k for the March for life.
eclare
Thank you for the pictures everyone…wonderful to see.
Ohio Mom
Glad to see the fellow waving the flag in the St. Charles, Illinois photo. I know flag waving doesn’t come naturally to a lot of us but I think it essential that we take it up.
The Right thinks we never got over being teenagers, that we are rebelling out of hate and disgust for our country.
We know it’s actually the opposite, that we come by our viewpoints out of considered thought and heart, that we are motivated to demonstrate and march to save what is best about our country.
The Right thinks they own both the flag and patriotism. They don’t, and we should make that clear to them in the most basic way. If nothing else, seeing us wave some flags will confuse them.
EriktheRed
Wow, I’m right down the road from St. Charles, too. in fact, I often go the Costco around that intersection.
Cheryl Rofer
@Schlemazel: Cheryl (at) nucleardiner (dot) com
HumboldtBlue
Many of the people I spoke with, including the owners of the Mexican restaurant where I went to eat lunch afterwards and who just had a friend taken from her home and sent to Bay Area, had personal stories to tell.
That beautiful little girl has one to tell as well.
Just behind me in the photo of the handsome young man were three counter-protestors with signs.
The older woman took the bus from Arcata to make the march. She rarely misses these events.
Matt McIrvin
I showed up late to the one in Haverhill, by which time it had dwindled to <10 people with signs, but they told me that at the height of it there had been about 120 people there, lined up along Main Street by the Market Basket. Maybe 2 or 3 counter-protesters.
Matt McIrvin
@Ohio Mom: Some of the protesters in Haverhill had flags.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: You took some superb photos. Thank you for sharing them.
JPL
@Ohio Mom: I was raised in a state that they celebrated patriotic holidays with parades, and flag waving. I was raised in MA. Although we moved to GA when my youngest was in third grade decades ago, they don’t have the same experience.
The signs and posters were amazing.
JPL
Cheryl, Thank you for posting these
rikyrah
Thank you for these posts
Ohio Mom
@Matt McIrvin: Good to hear!
I saw some women dressed in red, white and blue outfits, and one flag at the Cincinnati rally, but I was only at one end of the park — I didn’t see everything.
I wore my flag baseball cap (usually reserved for July 4th) and brought along a handful of small flags to give to children looking antsy. I think I’ll buy some more flags now that there’s lots for sale for July 4th, and save them for the inevitable next demonstration.
Mary G
It’s soul-satisfying to see concrete evidence of so many people all on our side. Happy anniversary, aimai and Mr. aimai!
jharp
Some great signage.
Our side is so clever and that gives me great faith.
Mary G
My senator is upping her Twitter game:
EBT
Thought you might like to see the police are now deciding what kids should read in school. https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1013127013132095488
Omnes Omnibus
@EriktheRed: Geneva? I lived there through 6th grade.
PaulWartenberg
it drizzled in Lakeland this afternoon. About 100 people and 8 puppies were part of the march… hold on, might have been 5 puppies, my bad.
Some of the attendees had been at the earlier Tampa rally. They talked about how it was all going well until the lightning strikes.
I sent photos. Video is trickier because my phone and computer hate each other at the moment.
HumboldtBlue
@Elizabelle:
That’s all due to my friend’s iPhone.
Cheryl, the second email was all stuff I shot as well and thanks for your discretion.
Mr Stagger Lee
A cool poster at the Tacoma, a picture of Superman, with a caption “You dare to pick on aliens without papers?”
Dorothy Winsor
@Ohio Mom: There was a big flag waving at my local demonstration too. I also was glad to see it there to serve as a kind of counterstatement.
Gex
How do we send pics in?
debbie
@Ohio Mom:
It’s as if a flag lapel pin proves you’re a patriot!
CarolPW
There were at least 250 people at the rally in Richland Wa (eastern WA, the red part). It was a good turnout, particularly considering that before the first women’s march a typical protest would turn out maybe 25 people. And there was also a rally in Kennowick, across the Columbia, three hours before. And Kennowick was a sundown town and retains a lot of that taint still, and I was surprised they had one since I don’t remember any protest rallies there in the past.
My sign said “No more Tule Lakes” and I was astonished how many people asked what it meant. Tule Lake wasn’t just the closest camp, it was the one to which the Japanese from the other internment camps were sent that didn’t answer the loyalty questions correctly, and where many were stripped of their citizenship or immigration status and shipped off to Japan.
It was a good day, and the dog got to go with.
PaulWartenberg
@Gex:
Cheryl had an email address listed at the first post thread. I think it’s Cheryl AT Nucleardiner dot com.
Tom
@CarolPW: Not at all being snarky, but how did they ship the Japanese Americans from Tule Lake to Japan, World War 2 going on at the time? Did they ship them after the war?
Jackie
@CarolPW: I’m a Tri-Citian, too! ?? I was watching the grandkiddos today, so I didn’t get to attend.
EBT
So to no one’s surprise the Proudboy Patriot Prayer and March has ended in a riot with orders to disperse.
Gvg
I am bad at crowd size but Gainesville Fl had over 400. It rained at the beginning but here umbrellas aren’t banned. Probably did depress turn out. Most people were cheerful and determined but for some reason I was on the verge of tears the whole time. We marched about a mile from city hall to depot park. The Mayor was a ringleader and city council was all there. Upsetting story about an immigrant activist who was knocked down by a woman in a car at the protest at an ICE center next county over and the woman outed her to cops who arrested her. Last night. One speaker was from an immigrant support group who talked about making contingency plans with friends and family about who picks up kid at school if ICE takes parents suddenly. Training kids to ask for lawyer and not sign things, sigh. Abolish ICE signs almost as numerous as families belong to gether. Local churches participating. ICE has gotten noticed and really disliked fast amoung that mostly white crowd. Signs were clever, the chants were lame IMO.
Cckids
Excellent job, Juicers! I could not make the Seattle protests because working, (2nd job, at a grocery store),but just like last week with the Pride parade, am seeing the after-march people coming in.
Last week, participants were laughing, cheery, getting party food & booze. This week, people are . . . resolved, determined, happy but not partying. Good to see how many of my neighbors went.
Of course, this is Bellevue; so so many immigrants here (yay Microsoft).
And break’s over. Later, people!
CarolPW
@Tom: I have no idea – I do know they were sent during the war. According to the Wiki, 1.3K were repatriated to Japan and another 5K at risk for repatriation. 12K were sent to Tule Lake for wrong answers. If I remember his biography correctly, one of George Takei’s relatives ended up at Tule Lake.
Ruckus
@Mr Stagger Lee:
In Los Angeles, guy in Superman suit with a sign “Undocumented Immigrant.”
Lots of good signs, lots of good speeches. Senator Harris was good. Congresswoman Maxine Waters was great. I’m pretty sure she doesn’t give one fuck about civility. That’s not the only thing I like about her by far, but that was nice to hear. Several speakers said they were undocumented immigrants.
Not as many people as I’d hoped for, more than I expected. A large turnout. Very vocal and not one counter protester as far as I could see. Lots of kids, woman in front of me had her 11 week old daughter. And her 2 yr old. She brought along her husband to hold the 2 yr old. Both kids cute as the dickens. Old people in walkers, so I’d say 11 weeks to 80 or even 90ish. Old man, in his 70s had a sign, “My diapers aren’t as shitty as trump.”
The crowd was far more pumped up than the Women’s or the Kids March. And that was pumped up.
O. Felix Culpa
Ok, so who was the St. Charles contributor? I used to live (somewhat) close to there and several of my BEST friends were at that protest!
Uncle Ebeneezer
@Ruckus: Glad to hear you all had a good time. In Pasadena we had, I’m totally guessing, only couple hundred, which isn’t bad for Pasadena, especially on an uncomfortably warm day. Our state Senator Anthony Portantino gave a great speech that ended in him leading a chant of “Vote! Vote! Vote!”
It was inspiring seeing so many young people, especially Latinx women, like the main organizer, showing such fearlessness and dedication. You can see all the pics/vids here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1192664430847172/permalink/1711493732297570/