Tag: women’s march

easyjumpingfunfalling:

odinsblog:

BLACK WOMEN DID IT FIRST

I was there.  I got on an overpacked bus from Charlotte, only got 3 hours sleep on the floor of a crowded hotel room only to barely wash my ass or eat.  Took a way too crowded train to this spot so that I could be enveloped in the embrace of Black Love and Sisterhood.

The city had barricaded the steps of the museum off until a group of brothers was like “Fuck that!” and moved the barricades so that we could have a place to sit and rest.

refinery29:

The next huge women’s protest has been scheduled for March 8. Mark your calendars and get ready to be loud about it

The organizers of the Women’s March are planning a general strike — A Day Without A Woman — on March 8, which is International Women’s Day. They made the announcement on Twitter and Instagram yesterday, hashtagging it #DayWithoutAWoman and #WomensMarch. Here’s what’s involved.

micdotcom:

Planned Parenthood protests in New York draw massive crowds in support of women’s rights

Across the country on Saturday, Planned Parenthood health centers saw coordinated protests staged by abortion opponents. 

But in New York City, the counter-protesters got up earlier, beating the anti-abortion faction at their own game.

By 9 a.m., an hour before the “Protest PP” rally was scheduled to begin, substantial crowds of Planned Parenthood advocates had assembled directly across from the Margaret Sanger Center in downtown Manhattan, staking out the prime real estate usually occupied by anti-abortion factions. 

They dwarfed the handful of the Protest PP demonstrators, who, by 11 a.m., numbered perhaps two dozen. Read more. (2/11/17, 6:13 PM)

sandalwoodandsunlight:

Posting these threads not to taint anyone’s positive feelings and inspiration they got from participating and/or witnessing the women’s march, it is not to erase the fact that the march was diverse and people of color led and participated in the march, it’s also not to isolate or be hypercritical of white women who are trying to do the right thing.

Posting them because it is a reminder to act beyond the march and because it’s a teaching moment, especially those of us who are new to political activism should listen and learn.

Protesting can’t be the new form disaster tourism, and it’s also a starting point, not the end goal.