Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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.
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.
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.
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.
oh, they are actually estimating more like 2000. They had printed 1200 schedules and ran out.
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.
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!
Seriously people, I am suffering from emotional whiplash! After the despair of yesterday I am giddy today. Full of love for the millions that showed up at marches. 10,000 in Miami and 7,000 in West Palm Beach apparently.
I don't know what it means for tomorrow, or next week, but today is the first time I have felt hope in months.
I feel exactly the same way, Laura.
Beverly, I'll do it. do they specifically want acrylic?
Yes please, ma'am, she has allergy issues. And thank you!! You really are the nicest!