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Women's March on NYC
Jan. 21st, 2017 08:14 pmI couldn't figure out how to post pictures to DW, they only permit urls for some reason. So I posted to LJ and will include a link to that post here:
http://shadowkat67.livejournal.com/1279213.html
Over 300,000 people marched in the Women's March in NYC today. Below are photos from our march from 47th Street to 2nd Avenue, then 2nd Avenue to 42nd Street, and 42nd St to 5th Avenue. The March was to be from 2nd Avenue to 42nd, 42nd to 5th, and 5th to 56th, but they stopped it at 50th apparently and re-routed to 1st Avenue, because of the area around Trump Tower has been blocked off. Or so we were told. Doesn't matter, at 4PM, I'd made it as far as 42nd and 3rd Avenue. I jumped out with a friend at 3rd and 42nd, a couple of blocks from 5th Avenue. We'd been marching from roughly 11:30 AM to 4PM. We bailed at 4PM. Our feet quite numb from the cold. It was supposed to be in the 50s, but felt more like the 40s. The whole time, I was thinking, a nice hot bath would be wonderful and maybe a cup of hot coco.
I journeyed home and took a nice hot bath. The trains were screwy today. Several weren't running at all, two on other lines. It was a mess. And the city hadn't prepared for 300,000 marchers, they'd expected only 60-75,000. DC had over 500,000, the expectation had been 100,000. Chicago, over 200,000. Boston, also over 200,000. LA came close to 400,000. Denver was close to 100,000. My mother was telling me over the phone that CNN was showing pictures of it from around the world and the size of the protests was inspiring. People came out in droves, all races, all ages, all people.
I'm glad I did it. It was amazing. People were kind, helpful and considerate. And all in agreement.
We were unified in our horror at the election of Trump and what has transpired since then. We are horrified at the friends, family members, and co-workers who had voted for him. One woman stated her mother had, and then was praying for World Peace, wondering if that was an oxymoron. There was one sign, I didn't capture a photo of -- "It's so bad, Introverts came."
My friends turned and pointed at me -- yep, even I came. And I never do these things. But I felt I had to this time.
http://shadowkat67.livejournal.com/1279213.html
Over 300,000 people marched in the Women's March in NYC today. Below are photos from our march from 47th Street to 2nd Avenue, then 2nd Avenue to 42nd Street, and 42nd St to 5th Avenue. The March was to be from 2nd Avenue to 42nd, 42nd to 5th, and 5th to 56th, but they stopped it at 50th apparently and re-routed to 1st Avenue, because of the area around Trump Tower has been blocked off. Or so we were told. Doesn't matter, at 4PM, I'd made it as far as 42nd and 3rd Avenue. I jumped out with a friend at 3rd and 42nd, a couple of blocks from 5th Avenue. We'd been marching from roughly 11:30 AM to 4PM. We bailed at 4PM. Our feet quite numb from the cold. It was supposed to be in the 50s, but felt more like the 40s. The whole time, I was thinking, a nice hot bath would be wonderful and maybe a cup of hot coco.
I journeyed home and took a nice hot bath. The trains were screwy today. Several weren't running at all, two on other lines. It was a mess. And the city hadn't prepared for 300,000 marchers, they'd expected only 60-75,000. DC had over 500,000, the expectation had been 100,000. Chicago, over 200,000. Boston, also over 200,000. LA came close to 400,000. Denver was close to 100,000. My mother was telling me over the phone that CNN was showing pictures of it from around the world and the size of the protests was inspiring. People came out in droves, all races, all ages, all people.
I'm glad I did it. It was amazing. People were kind, helpful and considerate. And all in agreement.
We were unified in our horror at the election of Trump and what has transpired since then. We are horrified at the friends, family members, and co-workers who had voted for him. One woman stated her mother had, and then was praying for World Peace, wondering if that was an oxymoron. There was one sign, I didn't capture a photo of -- "It's so bad, Introverts came."
My friends turned and pointed at me -- yep, even I came. And I never do these things. But I felt I had to this time.