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jeff constine

Trad climber
Ao Namao
Jan 21, 2017 - 11:25pm PT
I sill say it is weird that the GOVERNMENT can tell a woman what she can do or can not do with own her Vagina.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Jan 22, 2017 - 01:23am PT
80-100k turned out in PDX...

Delhi Dog

climber
Good Question...
Jan 22, 2017 - 01:53am PT
I'm currently in Bahrain-no women marching here that I know of...surprised?
But headed back to Delhi, and I know we had a sister march there as well.

Proud of all these people!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Jan 22, 2017 - 05:36am PT


monolith

climber
state of being
Jan 22, 2017 - 07:35am PT
Fairbanks, subzero temps

nature

climber
Boulder, CO
Jan 22, 2017 - 08:14am PT
The Orange Turd is doing an excellent job of unifying people. Looks like there were 2.5M out in the streets unifying with what I'm sure is a number 10 or 100 times that size "there" via proxy.
BrassNuts

Trad climber
Save your a_s, reach for the brass...
Jan 22, 2017 - 09:53am PT
Very cool event in Denver yesterday! Up to 200k participants and everyone was extremely well behaved.
nita

Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
Jan 22, 2017 - 10:00am PT
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I had planned on attending the Sacramento march with my friends,but was needed by family.
My friends are somewhere in this crowd of thousands..
A sign my friends saw in Sacramento.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Outside the Asylum
Jan 22, 2017 - 10:15am PT
Libby: ""When they go low, WE go high!" My solo women's march yesterday "
She considered that she was marching yesterday, and that's good enough for me. And while marching yesterday may not have been the main purpose of Libby's ascent, if she wants to say that she was marching, who are we to disagree?
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Jan 22, 2017 - 10:25am PT
i too sidewalk shuffled among the throng to heritage square in flagstaff. the spirit is strong.

next chance i'll tote a sign: DELIVER US from MEGALOMANIAICAL GASLIGHTING"
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Jan 22, 2017 - 10:27am PT
Biggest ever protest in Seattle...

History was made Saturday in Seattle as more than 100,000 people marched through the streets to stand up for women's rights. The record protest for the Women’s March on Seattle far surpassed previous demonstrations in the city.
(from The Seattle Times)
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:02pm PT
Indescribable day in DC yesterday. Reilly sorry your family member had trouble. I rode the metro with, and was near several people in wheel chairs while there. It's a shame someone - anyone - was denied.

I've read that the signs on the ground are in front of Trump's International Hotel on Pennsylvania. They were left there in protest. The rest of the city looked great. When I went past the hotel, there were no signs there however - just two rows of fences and lots of police.

Edit: more photos here of those signs in that location: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/315495-womens-march-protesters-leave-their-signs-at-trumps-dc-hotel

I hope all of you have an opportunity some time to be with so many people filled with love and a desire for inclusiveness, unity and joy. It was really uplifting.
c wilmot

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:09pm PT
It's a public street. It's trash that city workers will pick up. Those marches were purely emotional based.

I find it amazing so many people showed up outraged over words while saying nothing when the USA became involved in a third war in Syria.
A war in which our allies the "rebels"-Islamic terrorist groups- treat women like dirt.


It's great we can still protest in such a manner but i feel the anger is seriously misdirected.
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:09pm PT
Why can't leftist slobs ever pick up after themselves?

I have been in many red states where there is trash along the highway, and in parks. It seems to me that redstaters also like to use their front yard as a parking lot.
Degaine

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:13pm PT
TGT2 wrote:
Why can't leftist slobs ever pick up after themselves?

So for you women's rights is only an issue for those left of center on the political spectrum?

As Crimpergirl wrote, how do you know those signs weren't left there in protest?
herm

Trad climber
Bishop
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:21pm PT

600 marched in Bishop, about 17% of the population.
Degaine

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:29pm PT
c wilmot wrote:
Those marches were purely emotional based.

Can't recall you writing this during the original Tea Party protests (before the movement was co-opted by the Koch brothers). But hey, who are we kidding, using "emotional" is just another way to denigrate and dismiss women.

c wilmot wrote:
It's great we can still protest in such a manner but i feel the anger is seriously misdirected.


Of course you find it misdirected since you don't agree with them. Again, what exactly do you find misdirected?

c wilmot wrote:
I find it amazing so many people showed up outraged over words while saying nothing when the USA became involved in a third war in Syria.
A war in which our allies the "rebels"-Islamic terrorist groups- treat women like dirt.

Syria is the direct result of 60+ years of misguided (an understatement) US policy in the region starting with the CIA overthrow of Mossagdegh in Iran to install the Shah (a brutal dictator) to the historic and ongoing support of the most extreme fundamentalist Islamic and terrorist regime - Saudi Arabia and its Royal family, right up to the fiasco that was the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The latter is the reason ISIS exists and Syria is now in shambles alongside Iraq.
That written, millions of people did protest in early 2003 against invading Iraq. I find it amazing that you don't remember that.

I fear following yesterday's protest for women's rights that, just as in 2003 and for most issues, the US government rarely listens or heeds to public opinion.

Cheers and thanks to all those who took action yesterday (and sorry for the slight digression in this thread).
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:33pm PT
wilmot, you are always finding fault with the US policy toward Syria, yet I never see you offering a solution.

edit: sorry for the thread drift
c wilmot

climber
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:34pm PT
It's misdirected because they are protesting a silly comment instead of our policy's of supporting groups of people who treat women like dirt.

And yes I agree our policy's go back some time. However trump had no part of it. Hillary on the other hand?

Edit- the solution is to not have invaded a sovereign nation while supporting the terrorist groups behind the chaos.

It's been a predictable disastor.
It's too bad so many are worried about Syrian refugees rather than our policy's that displaced them.
10b4me

Mountain climber
Retired
Jan 22, 2017 - 12:38pm PT

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