Once again, all around the globe - WOMEN STOOD UP, SPOKE OUT, AND MARCHED ON!
From the streets of Woodstock, Hudson, and Albany, to New York City, Chicago, LA, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, and many places in between, and sister-marches in places like London, Frankfurt, Melbourne, Paris, and Warsaw. Rather than a long-winded description, you will get the picture and feel the energy and the commitment from the photos taken in NYC and in sister marches across the nation and throughout the world.... Rather than label them all by location, know that this outpouring of outrage seemed like a spontaneous combustion in reaction to the Trump agenda, actions, and attitudes displayed in policy, press conferences and presidential tweets. It has truly been a shocking year and one that challenges all of us to STAND UP... TO SPEAK OUT.... AND TO MARCH ON! Over this past year we have taken our cause to the streets. This year - 2018 - will be the year that we take back our country through the ballot box.
Here is a list of some of the sister march locations in the US and around the world : Albany, Austin, Atlanta, Anchorage, and Ajijic, Athens, Amsterdam, and Auckland; Boston, Buffalo, Boise, and Bangkok, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Bogota, Brasilia, and Brussels; Chicago, Chattanooga, and Capetown; Dallas, Denver, Dublin and Durban; Fairbanks, Fargo, and Frankfort; Glens Falls, Guam, and Geneva; Houston, Hudson, Heidelberg, and Helsinki; Jackson and Jackson Hole; Key West, and Knoxville; Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Lima, and Lisbon; Memphis, Miami, Mobile, Macau, Madrid, Mexico City, and Montreal; Napa, New Orleans, Newark, New York City, and Nairobi; Omaha and Oslo; Palm Beach, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Paris, and Prague; Raleigh, Richmond, and Rome; San Diego, San Francisco, Savannah, Sedona, Spokane, Steamboat Springs, Sidney, and Stockholm; Trenton, Tel Aviv, Tbilisi, and Toronto; Washington, DC, Wichita, Woodstock, and Warsaw. Dozens of other sites hosted sister marches as well that are not listed here. Still, you need to see just how wide-spread the protests and marches against Trump were this month. The messages, in addition to those expressing disapproval of the Trump administration and the president himself, were in support of Women's Rights, Human Rights, Free Speech, Science, Black Lives, the Environment, Health Care, Income Equality, Immigrants and DACA, sanity in foreign policy, against war and the waste of lives, against corporate greed, and much more. The "line of march" stretched coast-to-cost, border-to-border, and around the globe. All together, estimates are that some 4-5 million marched this past weekend, all with a renewed commitment to RESIST... INSIST... PERSIST... AND VOTE!
Photos follow....
STAND UP! SPEAK OUT! RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST! AND, MARCH ON!!!!!
Bobby J
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