Scenes from the NYC Women’s March, January 21, 2017. Many more photos on my flickr.
I joked that only something very important could have brought this many New Yorkers to midtown voluntarily. Nothing’s ever been more important, against an administration so blatantly adverse to our health, our future, our survival. (That “us” is the entire population of this planet.)
The lesson of Saturday’s marches is that we are very strong and very loud when we all come together, each bringing our own banners, and chanting with each other. It falls apart when we refuse to back each other up, when we forget that equality and empathy are at the heart of the causes we all share, and that we’re not all starting from the same starting line.
I hope all these millions of people will vote on the side of humanity in the next election (in EVERY election), learning a hard lesson about baloney protest votes or “principled” abstention when the alternative was so obviously this dire, and will work very hard in the meantime to care for threatened communities and ensure that we still will have elections to vote in.
