And on the way back we heard about the huge turnout in DC.
500,000 on the Mall.
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 21, 2017 11:20:24 am PST #5907 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Jan 21, 2017 11:43:37 am PST #5908 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The New York Times article with the marches from around the world had me weeping. But happy weeping, unlike yesterday. I finally feel hopeful. Because just look at us.
Jessica - Jan 21, 2017 12:15:05 pm PST #5909 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
my favorite might be the sign that Glamcookie's son is carrying
Also my favorite! My kid got tired of carrying their signs after about 20 minutes, so we gave them to a group of women who didn't have any. They were so happy to have signs!
askye - Jan 21, 2017 12:15:13 pm PST #5910 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I think Kristin did they are estimated g 500,000 or 750,000 in LA
msbelle - Jan 21, 2017 12:17:42 pm PST #5911 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the march I went to, in a smaller city (123,000) had maybe 1000 people. Good diversity and good amount of men. There was a 5 person counter protest which seemed to be anti-gay, not necessarily pro-Trump. The counter protest was odd and pathetic.
Home now.
Pix - Jan 21, 2017 12:18:24 pm PST #5912 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.
Yes. LAPD says 500,000, but NBC La is estimating 750,000. And I can believe it! It wasn't so much a march as a shuffle! It was utterly amazing, though. I'm on cloud 9 and filled with fierce determination, pride in my city, and hope.
Sue - Jan 21, 2017 12:31:38 pm PST #5913 of 30002
hip deep in pie
I was very briefly at the women's march in Halifax.(It wasn't so much a march as a rally, since everyone just gathered in our Parade Square.) I arrived late and my friend had already been there for a couple of hours and was freezing, so we didn't stick around for much longer. I heard estimates that there were around 1000 people there.
msbelle - Jan 21, 2017 12:53:03 pm PST #5914 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
oh, they are actually estimating more like 2000. They had printed 1200 schedules and ran out.
Jesse - Jan 21, 2017 12:56:49 pm PST #5915 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Everything was bananas. In Boston, I didn't actually march, because they had like five times as many people as originally expected and there was no good way to get to the march route. So after an hour we just left. And marched across the bridge! As it was 100% full of people coming from there.
Beverly - Jan 21, 2017 12:57:58 pm PST #5916 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Pop. -100K here, and somewhere upwards of 6,000 showed up to march (some FB posts claim 10K). It's a college town, so lots of students, but a good proportion of older women, and men, and a visible percentage of First Nations folk.
Seattle, of course, will be much larger.
ETA: Could I ask a huge favor, and pay a knitting Buffista for yarn and labor? A Canadian friend is begging for a pink acrylic p*ssy hat, and I don't knit!