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| View from the City Hall steps. |
I don't know the numbers, but the march today felt huge. To quote the dipshit in the White House, I should say: YUGE.
I was part of a contingent keeping up the rear of the march. We were just making our way toward City Hall from Dolores Park when our police escort told us that the front of the march folk had already arrived at our destination some 1.6 miles away.
Our march route was this:
There was a podium set up on the steps of City Hall. I'm told that Joan Baez kicked things off with a speech. -sorry to have missed her.
Some of the speakers shared personal stories of family separation. Some speakers talked about how the 'muslim ban' currently affects their families. Immigrant union workers spoke, although I was not sure if forced separation of families at the US border had harmed them, or not.
There were many, many speakers, and, mostly, they went over their alloted speaking time. I can't really blame them. They were speaking from the heart. However, it did mean that many rally attendees had left by the time the last groups of speakers began sharing their stories.
Overall, the march was peaceful, there were no counter-prostestors that I could see, and no B.S.
I took public transit home & was met with this from a clever march-goer:
Fascinating. We hear a lot about what is happening in America and find much of it hard to believe. The separation of children is shocking. Last night we saw an "Antiques Roadshow" on the Holocaust and it had a lot of similarities.
ReplyDeleteThe parallels are certainly there. I think a lot of us are rightly questioning if we're doing enough, if it's not too late.
DeleteI am so glad that the turnout is YUGE. Better than any Obama turnout by far. From this side of the world I do hope that the midterms show the impact. Bigly.
ReplyDeleteHa, yes, a 'bigly' impact is needed! May we come through for ourselves & not drop the ball.
DeleteIt's a shame that the Southern States don't have rallies like that.
ReplyDeleteI've read that more than 700 cities had rallies, so there's a good bet southern states had folk participating.
DeleteThank you for going Bea.
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DeleteThank you for being young and fit and woke, and representing us. Your compatriot of the bus is grand, too.
ReplyDeleteThe compatriot on the bus turned out to be a woman in her 70s!
DeleteI love how the protests were so peaceful. (The counter protests, not so much. Not surprising, really. Consider the participants.) Glad you were able to march.
ReplyDeleteDid your neck of the woods see any counter-protest activity? I hope not.
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