Women's March on Washington -- any other Dopers going?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The Women’s March on Washington (link is to the Facebook page) is on Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration.

According to the cite:

I’m going, along with one of my sisters and a good friend.

In an effort to save some of you some bother, I’ll point out that yes, I know that it may be more effective to stay home and send the money I would have spent on attending to some worthy organizations. I will be donating at year-end to some of these anyway. And I have donated and will continue to donate time to my local county Democratic Party.

I also know that one march isn’t going to change anything. I’ll answer that with three points:

  1. If the march is big enough (and it’s being called by some The Million Women March – and I think it’s possible a million may attend), it will get attention. I don’t expect it to change Trump’s mind in the least – after all, if Jesus and the twelve apostles came to him to tell him his views were wrong, he’d tweet, “Some guys from like 1000 years ago think they know better than me what is right. Sad!” And I have no hope that GOP pols will suddenly start putting the good of the country over the good of their party. They will however as always put increasing their chances of re-election over the good of their party, so a large crowd may make them at least think about certain issues.

  2. It’s not just one march – it’s the start of a series of marches and other activities, at least for me. When would civil rights legislation have passed if there hadn’t been marches and demonstrations? How much longer would the Viet Nam war have gone on if people hadn’t taken to the streets?

  3. Sometimes in life it’s important to just stand up and be counted. This is one of those times for me.

So – anyone else planning on going?

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Not planning on going but I support your goals and your methods. Stay strong, sister!

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I was planning to go, yes.

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Glad to hear it!

Don’t worry, I won’t suggest that the Dopers attending try to meet up. The logistics of that are beyond me.

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I’m the guy with short hair.

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Probably can’t make it to DC, but we’ll join the solidarity march same day in the “Other Washington”.

Thanks for getting the word out!

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I was at the 500,000 strong march in 1989 and boy was that something. A friend and I drove from Boston, attended the march, and drove home that night. Oh to be young again.

Are there numbers even close to that projected?

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Oh dear. I’ve killed another thread?

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Moved from Elections to MPSIMS.

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Inauguration on Friday, Women’s March on Saturday, Roe v. Wade protests on Sunday (which will probably be big this year). Hotels are going to fill up all the way out to Delaware. It’ll be interesting to see what’s left of the city when I head in to work on Monday. :eek::stuck_out_tongue:

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Good. Because Trump has said that the very first thing he is going to once in office is overturn R v.W. All on his own. SCOTUS, Congress and laws be damned he’s just going to do it.

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Good luck.

last march I was in was the Million Pibble March in 2014. Pit bulls (“pibbles”) weren’t actually allowed on the mall, so it was just people with signs, although a few renegades with dogs appeared on the fringes with dogs (maybe those who already lived there).

It was instructive. The Park Police, who as far as I know have no beef with dogs, nevertheless waited patiently for our kickoff speaker to start talking before obnoxiously performing a “sound test” of their own equipment, drowning her out, apparently purely out of the urge to harass protestors in general. So be prepared for some of that. Lots of people just seem to hate protest, regardless of the cause.

My favorite sign form the event: “My dogs won’t fight – but I will!”

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Could be a lucrative opportunity. If I had space to put people up I’d totally be renting out my houses.

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I’m likely to go! It’s easy for me since I’m less than 10 miles from the White House.

I’m a little concerned that it’s not clear who’s organizing this thing. A big demonstration requires a lot of logistics and if this was just a spur of the moment thing someone slapped on Facebook it could be a disaster. I don’t see anything on NOW’s website, or the Feminist Majority, or Planned Parenthood, or NARAL. Does anyone know who’s putting this event together?

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I’m going skiing.

Like, say, election day, maybe?

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Clinton won the popular vote by over a million votes, so they did stand up on Election Day.
Do you think being a man dismissing a woman’s question w/ a smug, uninformed insult is somehow clever or novel? Your misogynistic attitude being a knee-jerk reaction is part of the problem.

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Here is some background.

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Just to be clear, the big annual march is the pro-life side, with the pro-choice rally typically being much smaller. I imagine both sides will be energized this year, though.

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This is a warning for you…don’t make jerkish threadshittinng posts like this again. You have a long history of doing this and you are going to be suspended soon if you keep doing it.

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Yep, I’ll be there, with Mrs. SMV. We have family in Maryland - my cousin is rather high up in the FBI - and I just wrote to him to ask if we could dirty his linens, consume his food, and entertain his family with a robust, eight-hour rendition of my famous Nasal Nocturne.

We were planning on going to the inauguration when we thought we’d be seeing our first female President sworn in; now we’ll go to the March instead.