women's march Madison is a go!
Jan. 21st, 2017 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanter194475,000 to 100,000 people at Capitol Square this afternoon. Diverse, entirely peaceful crowd: Women, men, nonbinary folks, multiracial, multiethnic and multilingual (languages counted so far today=3: English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese), babies to seniors. I got a pleasant surprise when Milwaukee's own righteous firebrand of a state senator, Senator Taylor, was introduced! :) Music, poetry, spontaneous organization... and zero ill will seen anywhere. Plenty of calling certain officials out on their horribleness, but no evil intent. *That* is how we rally, Mr. Donald [crude potty humor/cultural reference mashup redacted]. Expect more of the same.
I've missed this. I shouldn't have done, considering the circumstances that lead to protests in both 2011 and now in the first place, but... I have. The atmosphere today had the same magical quality as the iconic snow rally we held, nearly six years ago. Let's hope that atmosphere, and the crowds creating it, continue. I for one am crossing my fingers. And turning out, of course.
I've missed this. I shouldn't have done, considering the circumstances that lead to protests in both 2011 and now in the first place, but... I have. The atmosphere today had the same magical quality as the iconic snow rally we held, nearly six years ago. Let's hope that atmosphere, and the crowds creating it, continue. I for one am crossing my fingers. And turning out, of course.
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Date: 2017-01-22 01:12 am (UTC)100,000 in Portland.
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Date: 2017-01-22 04:17 am (UTC)That is marvelous! :) I've heard 250,000 in Seattle and Chicago, upward of that in L.A. 1 million, per the National Guard, in D.C. itself.
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Date: 2017-01-22 04:21 am (UTC)We walked onto the bridge nearest out home to cross...and realized we were part of a continuous stream...and that the opposite bank at the rally site was solid people from out bridge all the way up to the next bridge and railing to buildings across the park and the street...just this one continuous body of people.
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