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Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The revolution will be supervised.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

DeSantis transforms Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

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Nothing worth doing is easy.

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Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

No one could have predicted…

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This Land Is My Land (Women’s March)

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Elizabelle sent the first three photos from the Women’s March in DC.

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The photo below is from Omnes from the Madison, WI march.  Be sure to click on it to see a bigger version – reading the details on the sign is a must!  I love this one.

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I’ll be posting lots more sign photos in the comments.  All the photos in this thread are from Elizabelle.  Photos thru comment #27 are from Elizabelle.  Photos from Minneapolis are from Laura Too.  Photos from Madison are from Omnes.

If you’re at the women’s march, please send photos if you’d like them posted.

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  18. 18.

    Mike in NC

    Last march I attended in DC was an anti-Gulf War event in 1991 where they were passing out “No Blood For Oil” pamphlets. I still have it somewhere. Anyway, good selection of signs.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @HinTN: I wasn’t sure what that meant, either.  But I didn’t want to editorialize in my selection of photos.

    I think our cabinet is great.  If she was referring to Biden’s cabinet, I don’t understand it.

  23. 23.

    phdesmond

    @Mike in NC:

    somewhere in a drawer i have a little plastic cylinder in the shape of an oil barrel with the words “no blood for oil” stencilled on the side.  i believe it dates back to a rally in 1991!

  24. 24.

    Another Scott

    Great photos and signs. Thanks for the post! It looks like a great turnout on a beautiful day. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to attend today (I was there in 2017).

    C-SPAN has a 97+ minute video.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    japa21

    I would just like to point out that, unlike signs at RW rallies, all the signs are spelled correctly and utilize correct grammar.

  28. 28.

    sab

    @debbie: Akron we had about 200 people, including some very pregnant women. We also had a reenactment of Sojousrner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman” speech, which was very appropriate for the rally, and also because she gave that speech here, and she has a statue dowmtown at the site where she gave it.

  29. 29.

    Morzer

    @japa21: Thim thar librul ‘litists is mockin’ mah economick afflickshuns wiv dat fancy grammer and speling … as the Kock brothers liked to say.

  30. 30.

    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: I read that there was a “massive” women’s golf cart parade in Florida’s The Villages. There might be some good photos from that one.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    Thank you for posting these.  Will send more from near the Supreme* Court in a few. A police officer said he’d heard 7,000 as a crowd estimate. I have no idea, but it was well attended, peaceful, and resolute. A march that looks like America, including a lot of men supporting women’s rights. Kids too, particularly daughters.

    The photos were more of the signs. Did not mean to go so heavy on white women marching. There were many many people of color, including a beautiful family with three generations. Checking now to see if that photo turned out.

    * YMMV. Long chant at the USSC:  You betrayed us.

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    OT: It is Gandhi’s birth anniversary and the RW Indian Twitter is trying to trend Nathuram Godse, Gandhi’s assassin. Godse was a member of the RSS (modeled after fascist organizations of Europe and of the same vintage). Modi has been a member since he was a child. Godse is a hero to the RSS.

  40. 40.

    EntroPi

    Went for a hike near Amherst with my dog over the weekend and saw one of my “Republicans for Voldemort” stickers in the parking lot. First time I had seen one “in the wild” in a long time.
    (not the sole creator, just part of the bar conversation that made them.)

  48. 48.

    Starfish

    It’s important that they did this march, but I don’t go to the Women’s March events anymore.

    In the days following this event, they will be attacked from both the left and the right. They will be attacked from the left for not being trans-inclusionary enough for putting uteruses on their sign. They will be attacked from the right for whatever nonsense the right dreams up this year.

    A lot of these signs are still overly generic after so many years of having this event.

    There should have been a ton of focus on abortion rights in this particular event. There was some, but there are a lot of folks out there with their bland and generic signs.

    Actually, this looks more on a meaningful message than in years past. I can’t tell if that is because someone chose to photograph the best signs. How did you feel about the event Elizabelle.

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Starfish: The one I went to was very focused on abortion rights.  There were also call out about avoiding transphobia.  My only issue was that I couldn’t really be a part of the chants; “My Body! My Choice!” doesn’t really work coming out of my mouth.   But then, people weren’t there to hear me.  I was there to walk with and support them.

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @debbie: In Madison, there was a small counter-protest.  Some people were polite to them others went straight to “Go fuck yourself!”  What I noticed about the counter-protesters is how hateful and angry they seemed.  The main march had kids and elderly, disabled and athletes, and, despite being angry about the need for this kind of march in 2021, we were there to support something good and it showed in the people.

  58. 58.

    debbie

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Angry and hateful is exactly who these pro-lifers are. A few of them are family friends and they cannot explain their beliefs without hissing like vipers.

  60. 60.

    debbie

    My FB friends are talking about thousands in attendance at both Austin and Houston. There was one side-by-side of that J6 rally (where the Capitol Police outnumbered the jerks) and today’s march in DC.

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I’d say the right wing protesters know they are the losers and are pissed that there are far more people that disagree with them than agree. I doubt that they will wake up anytime soon and see the reasons why, but that anger that they are less than they think of themselves is real, because really the only way they can convince enough people is to be more inclusive, and that goes against every fiber of their tiny minds.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Ruckus: Well, we filled a street from edge to edge for 3-4 blocks and there were about 25 of them, so they were outnumbered.

  72. 72.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @debbie: they cannot explain their beliefs without hissing like vipers.

    Sounds like even they know their position is immoral.

  79. 79.

    Rose Weiss

    There’s a march every year in my tiny Oregon town. For various reasons, including covid, today’s crowd was much smaller than previous years. Maybe 50 people, probably a third were men, always nice to see at women’s marches. Quite a few mothers with children too. Trucks with Trump banners drove back and forth along our route, with guys yelling “baby-killers!” among other things. We ignored them as best we could.

  86. 86.

    Rob

    It is great to read this post and see all these signs! Thanks, Watergirl, for putting it up. My wife and I would have been there but this weekend was fully scheduled before we found out about the march in DC. I’ll be sharing this post with some friends.

  87. 87.

    Hob

    @Starfish: ​

    In the days following this event, they will be attacked from both the left and the right. They will be attacked from the left for not being trans-inclusionary enough for putting uteruses on their sign

    Unless that’s something you have actually seen— and I mean seen in any significant numbers, not some random asshole (since there is always some random asshole willing to take any position imaginable)— I have to say, give me a break. Trans rights activists are not about and have never been about derailing the reproductive rights struggle. They are also (again, not counting the random asshole one will always find) not total fucking idiots. Everyone knows that abortion rights involve uteruses. I realize everyone has pet peeves about some faction of the left that they think is too strident, but there’s no need to go looking for conflict and false equivalency that make no sense.

  88. 88.

    Hob

    I didn’t get photos but was at the San Francisco march, which was specifically billed as being about reproductive rights, and people seemed pretty well focused on that (just judging by signs etc., since there weren’t any speakers at this). Hot day, seemed like a good turnout, all ages.

    A couple of male attendees (men were maybe 10% of the crowd) seemed particularly determined to be the ones leading the chants— one guy in particular came across as kind of a Monty Python bit by trying to do a repeat-after-me of “Your Bodies, Your Choice!”— but fortunately there wasn’t a whole lot of that. There were also of course the same half-dozen Worker’s World Party and Revolutionary Communist Party die-hards I’ve seen for the last 30 years showing up at every single protest and trying to make it all about them— as soon as one person started holding forth in the middle of the crowd with a megaphone, talking in the abstract about revolution with almost no connection to the subject at hand, and at one point playing a fake ambulance siren just to make all the marchers look around in a panic, I was waiting to hear the phrase “Leader Bob Avakian” and they did not disappoint.

  89. 89.

    Lbebrooks

    Long-time lurker from NC.  Event in Durham was pretty well-attended (several hundred, I think?) I had to analyze my own emotions going into this. I felt I should go but wasn’t all that enthusiastic.  I think I’m just worn down and thinking about all this is enraging and depressing.  But I was glad I made the effort. One speaker led the crowd in primal scream, LOL, but it was actually kind of cool.  We did a short march around the city – all feedback was positive (no counter-protesters,  friendly honks and thumbs ups).

  91. 91.

    J.

    Love all the signs! My daughter marched in Philadelphia and sent me photos of her cats “helping” her make signs. Just sent her this post, hoping she’ll leave a comment. Now off to give Planned Parenthood more $.

  92. 92.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Lbebrooks: Being among a group of like minded people can help.  It’s something that’s been hard what with the pandemic and all.  Even the most introverted of us needs that occasionally.  Knowing you aren’t alone.

  94. 94.

    sab

    @Hob: LGBT folks were a big group at tje rally I went to today. Often noted that some trans men still have a uterus.

  95. 95.

    sab

    @debbie: None whatever. There were “peace guards” with distinctive vests (like traffic cops) to keep order and escort rude people away, but no counter protesters turned up.

  97. 97.

    StringOnAStick

    Here in Bend, OR it was a good crowd.  We marched through the trendy outside restaurant area and lots of people smiled and clapped, lots of positive car honking too.  I did not know where the county courthouse was located until we ended the march there; I’m glad I learned the location via a protest event!

    The local right to life bunch that pickets the PP location had staked out the march route and had their Jebus signs and hung out across the street from the courthouse during the speeches but as more and more people arrived and started standing near them, they filtered away.

  98. 98.

    Laura Too

    @WaterGirl: Thanks for figuring that out. I was sending from my phone & not too tech savvy.

    Not my finest moment, but I was That person. I lost it on the antichoice suburban brats some church was so kind to send. They used a bullhorn to try to drown out Peggy Flanagan, our brilliant Lt. Governor and it struck a nerve. I yelled over the noise that they should find their own fucking march. Oh my! No one explained to them that someone might challenge their right to be there. I was met with whiny “this is public property” and it sorta devolved from there. I think I made my point, they did stop with the bullhorn.They grouped together and kept it low key after that. It was just so rude and disrespectful. Damn kids needed to get off my lawn!

  102. 102.

    Starfish

    @Hob: Our local group broke away from the national one and rebranded itself as the Womxn’s March so this is not just some random folks on the internet. It looks like other organizations may have done the same.

  104. 104.

    sab

    @No name: When they show up, we need you.

    My city’s marchwas very peaceful. I know that was luck, not genius.

    Thanks for being one of those people. Difficult, dangerous, awkward. Thank you for being there. Those of us in easier climes know what you are doing.

  105. 105.

    Hob

    @Starfish: I realize you’re probably not reading this thread any more but for the record: it sounds like you’re looking at the garden-variety kind of factionalism that exists in lots of political groups and insisting on reading it in one specific way that lines up with your own gripes. That is: there are lots of reasons groups have split off from the Women’s March organization, including terminology (“womxn” has been around since the 1970s but the reasons for its use are now more likely to include transgender inclusivity) and also disagreements over political strategy or leadership. None of that has one damn thing to do with your notion that current protests specifically about reproductive rights, and even more specifically about the Texas abortion ban, are going to be criticized “from the left” due to mentioning uteruses. I asked you for any examples of such a thing having happened, and you don’t seem to have any, which is not a surprise, since as I said trans activists are generally not fucking idiots.

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