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On January 21, 2017 we will unite in Washington, DC for the Women’s March on Washington. We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families -- recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.

The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us--women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.

In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.

We support the advocacy and resistance movements that reflect our multiple and intersecting identities. We call on all defenders of human rights to join us. This march is the first step towards unifying our communities, grounded in new relationships, to create change from the grassroots level up. We will not rest until women have parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society. We work peacefully while recognizing there is no true peace without justice and equity for all. HEAR OUR VOICE.

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The event kicks off at 10am ET with a rally on the corner of 3rd St and Independence Ave.
Speakers will include Cecile Richards from reproductive health organisation Planned Parenthood, activists Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem, actresses Ashley Judd and Scarlett Johansson, filmmaker Michael Moore and the “Mothers of the Movement”, a group of mothers whose children died because of violence by the police or gun violence.
Janelle Monáe, The Indigo Girls and Angelique Kidjo are among the musical acts scheduled to perform.
At 1.15pm the march will begin down Independence Ave to 14th St SW, then it will head to the Ellipse and the Washington Monument, where the event will finish at 4pm.
Other celebrity guests include singers Cher, Katy Perry and Zendaya, model Chrissy Teigen, comedians Amy Schumer and Cristela Alonzo, TV host Padma Lakshmi, artist Kara Walker, and actresses Hari Nef, Amandla Stenberg, Frances McDormand, Uzo Aduba, America Ferrera and Julianne Moore.

Women from all over the country are pouring into DC, with trains, planes and buses full of marchers arriving on Friday and early Saturday morning.

Yinlock posted:

alt-right: *look at pearls behind glass case labelled "IN CASE OF ANY RESISTANCE WHATSOEVER BREAK GLASS" i knew this day would come

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

https://twitter.com/annfriedman/status/822528413890007040

zeal posted:

will be interesting to see how trump's new dc national guard commander handles this

Dicky B posted:

Korelle posted:

It's nice to see this large crowd of middle class white women taking time out of their busy lives to snap a bunch of cool selfies for their Facebook and instagram pages.

Smash the state.

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

The stations in the Metro are super cool looking imo

Asproigerosis posted:

I have a horrible feeling that 'women's rights' are not terribly threatened by Trump compared to far more important universal issues such as health care, environment, deregulation, government slash and burn, handing the keys to corporations, etc. Am I cis scum?

Asproigerosis posted:

I have a horrible feeling that 'women's rights' are not terribly threatened by Trump compared to far more important universal issues such as health care, environment, deregulation, government slash and burn, handing the keys to corporations, etc. Am I cis scum?

Asproigerosis posted:

I have a horrible feeling that 'women's rights' are not terribly threatened by Trump compared to far more important universal issues such as health care, environment, deregulation, government slash and burn, handing the keys to corporations, etc. Am I cis scum?

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

The stations in the Metro are super cool looking imo

jarofpiss posted:

i was supposed to go to the womens march here today but i only ever get poo poo from the women in my life so i dont care about their rights!

Thundercracker posted:

Ahahah. Politico is saying the crowd is 5 times larger than his inuagration. Eat poo poo piss baby Trump

Horseshoe theory posted:

Remember when the Iraq war ended before it started because of massive protests?

Mariana Horchata posted:

DC Metro stations are weird, actually the DC Metro is weird in general but i like the sound that there trains make when arriving and leaving


third from the right looks nasty af

Raskolnikov38 posted:

thank christ they put ashley judd up there to cut moore off

DoctorGonzo posted:

Hey im going to check out the march

Sees Michael Moore


gently caress off

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I don't think what she's doing is preferable. This is very cringey.

Horseshoe theory posted:

Remember when the Iraq war ended before it started because of massive protests?

Thundercracker posted:

Except we're not dealing with lizard blooded neocons, but thin skinned Trump.

He only cares about optics and it'll eat into him that more people showed up to hate him than fete him. Wait til 3am (unless they took his twitter away)

Horseshoe theory posted:

And then he'll sign laws restricting/banning abortion, etc. and have it backed up by the Supreme Court, so he'll win in the end anyway. What's your point?

TheBalor posted:

You're right. No one with political disadvantage should ever protest anything.

Horseshoe theory posted:

Until you actually take control of the branches of government to implement your policy, pretty much, since you're pissing into the wind otherwise.

Edit: For example, the Voting Rights Act was recently destroyed by the Roberts court in Shelby County v. Holder, neutering decades of protests and civil rights work pushed by MLK Jr, etc. Political salves are only effective so long as you are in power to actually enforce it/prevent it from ever being destroyed.