# Anyone here marching on June 30? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031 "2018-06-30T01:32:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/1 "2018-06-30T01:32:55Z")
Tomorrow, I’ll be joining a march in downtown St. Louis to protest the separation of families at the border. This is one of over 700 events planned for Saturday by [MoveOn.org](http://MoveOn.org) (and I presume other groups, but I found out about it from MoveOn). Tens of thousands of people are expected to demonstrate across the US. Anybody else going to a march? I’ll try to update this thread from the demonstration if possible. If you’re marching, please post your thoughts and experiences here as well. Takin’ it to the streets! Oooh, takin’ it to the streets! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/2 "2018-06-30T02:05:04Z")
I have a bad foot and can’t walk that far. But I did assist from home with the planning of yesterday’s civil disobedience at the DOJ and Senate Office Buildings. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/3 "2018-06-30T02:07:48Z")
I am. I’m also bringing my drone to record the protest. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/4 "2018-06-30T03:30:25Z")
There’s an ICE detention center in Troy, MO, not far from me, and a protest will be held there, too. I considered going to that one but ultimately decided to go to the one in St. Louis instead. To my knowledge, no immigrant children are being held in the center in Troy, and I think the march in St. Louis might be more visible. MoveOn says they’ve signed up 2,000 participants for that rally. Hopefully other groups will bring more. I do worry about violence breaking out. Not so much in smaller cities like St. Louis, but more in DC, New York, etc. I worry about the Nazis showing up, or the protestors at one of the ICE facilities deciding to storm the Bastille. Hopefully everyone will keep their heads. ETA: Jacquernagy, I hope you share the video! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/5 "2018-06-30T04:10:12Z")
I and friends will be in Ewe-Jean. Not worried about violence here and expecting a good turn out. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/6 "2018-06-30T05:15:08Z")
I’d go, but I don’t take heat well in my old age 😛 and will probably skip it. We’re expecting 100-odd degrees with humidity to match, and the area where it’s being held is all concrete. The planners themselves have already told people not to bring small children or dogs, and a local grocery store is donating bottled water. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/7 "2018-06-30T05:48:58Z")
I think it’s really important to remember that this detention issue _is part of a larger issue_ with the prison-industrial complex. The detention centers that are built, the contractors who supply them, have economic motivation as well as being part of a deeply unethical national policy and a form of Trump virtue-signalling to his base (yes, conservatives can virtue-signal just as bad as the worst excesses of the radical left, if not _worse._) Could you imagine being a child and being separated from your family, held in an unfamiliar location guarded by men with guns speaking another language - I mean, obviously everyone posting in this thread _can_ imagine this scenario or they wouldn’t be protesting. But can you imagine all that, and also realize that people are _profiting_ from it? There’s racism in this border policy, there’s no doubt about it - racism in Trump’s motivation for 1. ramping up the policy and 2. just _talking_ about it. But there’s also the hands of corporate lobbyists. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/8 "2018-06-30T13:27:06Z")
**Jacquernagy** , I absolutely agree. I wish for-profit prisons got more attention and there was a movement to abolish them. I was glad that Bernie Sanders talked about it during the campaign, but unfortunately it didn’t catch on as an issue. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/9 "2018-06-30T13:31:23Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’d go, but I don’t take heat well in my old age 😛 and will probably skip it. > > We’re expecting 100-odd degrees with humidity to match, and the area where it’s being held is all concrete. The planners themselves have already told people not to bring small children or dogs, and a local grocery store is donating bottled water. We’re looking at 96 here with heat index around 110. It’ll be a bit balmy. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/10 "2018-06-30T14:34:26Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > We’re expecting 100-odd degrees with humidity to match, and the area where it’s being held is all concrete. The planners themselves have already told people not to bring small children or dogs, and a local grocery store is donating bottled water. Anyone drinking the donated water should remember how [border agents dump out water left for migrants.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/23/border-patrol-accused-of-targeting-aid-group-that-filmed-agents-dumping-water-left-for-migrants/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.be604c083c09)☹ ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/11 "2018-06-30T14:56:22Z")
I’m on the MetroLink heading downtown. Lots of folks wearing white on this train. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/12 "2018-06-30T15:00:02Z")
I plan to be at the rally here in Las Vegas, but I have a business opportunity that popped up last night that I have to handle first. I still have 2 hours to get to the rally, so I’m hopeful I can do it. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/13 "2018-06-30T15:26:37Z")
Keiner Plaza. Looks to be several hundred people here. It’s 10:30, there’s no shade, and it’s hot as balls. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/14 "2018-06-30T15:32:30Z")
Fair number of people wearing shirts saying “I Really Do Care. Do U?” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/15 "2018-06-30T15:37:10Z")
Favorite sign so far: “Crush ICE” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/16 "2018-06-30T15:49:09Z")
The sound system failed. I think the first speaker has just said, “blessed are the cheesemakers.” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/17 "2018-06-30T16:39:50Z")
Just took about a 8-block stroll through downtown. Gosh its hot. Looks like things are winding down. It was a good rally. No counter protesters as far as I could see. Probably a few thousand people in the rally. I’m glad I came today. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/18 "2018-06-30T16:56:38Z")
Yup. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/19 "2018-06-30T20:13:53Z")
My girlfriend and I attended the rally and march in Chicago. Huge crowd, great signs, high energy (could hardly hear the speakers, including Sen. Durbin), and a marching band. Walked from Daley Plaza to the immigration office on Congress, then back to Daley Plaza. Crowd was so big the people going back north could see the tail end of the crowd still going south. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031/20 "2018-06-30T20:23:29Z")
Oh, saw only two tiny counterprotests in Chicago: an anti-abortion picket with a megaphone, and a man with an anti-immigration sign who marched near the front of the march for a couple of blocks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-marching-on-june-30/817031.md?page=2)