[Magdalen] Saturday Marches

[Judy Fleener]

I am just home from Washington.and still exhausted.  Those of us on a bus
from Muskegon had quite an adventure including a bus break down.  We left
Muskegon with 55 women in pink shirts and pink pussy hats at 7 on Friday
morning.  Our goal was Gettysburg for the night, we never got there.  At 11
we checked into a motel in Breezeport PA.  We arrived in Washington with
thousands of other buses at about 7 am.  From then until we were home was
such an amazing experience, one I will never forget. The crowds in
Washington were huge and joyful. Even the metro ride was fun.  Cheers arose
randomly from the crowd as it moved to the rally. I was impressed by the
variety of constituencies in the crowd.  There were so many young people
there.  They were labor people, Native Americans, LBGTQ with 2 additional
letters, I and A, a number of women in hajib, immigrants, African
Americans. We found a place where we could hear the speakers and
entertainers.Watched the march rather than marching, from the line for a
port o potty.

I knew a number of people who were marching but never saw a person I knew.
There were not many people as old as the Dude and I.  I am so grateful that
I could do this.I really feel my age today.  I don't usually.

My favorite signs:  A young girl, maybe 10 or 12 held a sign that read:
"Buckle up buttercup: We are the Resistance." and "You knw Trump will lie
about the size of this protest."

QUESTION:  Among a group of gay men in the march were several dressed in
all white with veils over their faces.  I was pretty farfrom them, but each
may have held a poster with a photo of a person.  Can someone explain this
to me/


On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've just been sitting here, going through lots of picture and videos from
> the various marches, and enjoying the creativity of some of the signs.
> I think possibly my favorite one said: (I'll probably get the exact
> chapter and verse wrong.)
>
> "Don't mess with my reproductive rights!                   Fallopians 1:5"
>
>
> > On Jan 22, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Big picture of Trump, with the caption, "Does this bum make my sign look
> big?"
> >
> >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I saw one sign via my Twitter feed that really got to me. It was from
> the
> >> Berlin March and it said "Trump is KEIN Berliner!" It brought back
> memories
> >> of JFK.
> >>
> >> A few others I liked:
> >>
> >> I have a Vagenda
> >>
> >> Impeach Trump, Convert Pence
> >>
> >> I Am Not Up For Grabs
> >>
> >> Patriarchy Is For D*cks
> >>
> >> and especially:
> >>
> >> There Is So Much Wrong It Cannot Fit On This Sign
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 12:03 PM, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Even from this distance all this has me on a high. What a comeback
> after
> >>> Friday's auto-da-fe.
> >>>
> >>> M - did you see the photo of the three women dressed as suffragettes?
> Their
> >>> poster said "Different century - same s*&t"
> >>>
> >>> This morning on Sky News I heard some total idiot - an American - who
> >>> actually apologised for Madonna. Whaaat?? You've got to be kidding I
> >>> thought!
> >>>
> >>> There are a lot of people who are going to need calling out in the
> days to
> >>> come, for sure.
> >>>
> >>> Sally D
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 at 2:27 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> The gf went to the Boston rally.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> She said she hadn't seen that many people demonstrating since 1968.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Other friends have sent pics, including one of Bp. Gates blessing
> >>>>
> >>>> the marchers on the Cathedral steps ... amazing turnout.
> >>>>
> >>>> -M
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan