There were so many people at the DC march that:
-- It spilled to streets from one end of town to another
-- Metro had lines hundreds long
-- There rumors it'd be canceled, because people were lined up all the way to the whitehouse.
-- Ten times the busses as the inaguration
-- It felt more crowded than the first Obama inaguration
Also, Michael Moore can seriously mansplain.
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Oh! And it was so nice and so polite that we made about a dozen single serving friends.
ReplyDeleteMy ladyfriend Becca was there! Did you run into her among the 500K-1M people?
ReplyDeleteAmong the 1M+ people, Robert Bohl , I probably missed her!
ReplyDeleteI was just watching videos and news coverage of the march, and I've come to the conclusion that Ashley Judd can just about give a speech.
ReplyDeleteWas she there, Michael Moceri ? We heard some speakers, then wandered off to find some lost sheep and never got back to seeing the speakers.
ReplyDeleteThese things should really be done on the mall. Its why we have one.
It seems that she was wherever Michael Moore was, because they were interacting at the beginning of her speech.
ReplyDeleteOHHH, she's the lady who interupted Michael from coninuing to mansplain feminism to a million women?
ReplyDeleteYeah, she can just about give a speech.
Also, omg am i tired!
ReplyDeleteJust cried watching the video of her speech. Wow.
ReplyDeleteBiggest disappointment: The crowd happily talking through a number of (great) women of color and quieting down so they could hear Michael Fucking Moore.
ReplyDeleteAdmission, Remi Treuer ? My reaction to Michael Moore:
ReplyDeleteInitial: Holy shit that's MM. I have to tell my parents. My dad adores him.
five minutes later: Why is he still talking?
Ten minutes: Will he please shut up?
And then someone shut him up!
He was only on 6 out of 10!
ReplyDeleteAs MM, this is really pretty easy.
ReplyDeleteMM: I'm front Flint. We don't have water. Let's FIX THAT!
Boom, 10 seconds.
Something that struck me from the beginning, as my wife, kid and I stood in the massive crowd at one of the Metro stations in the morning for two hours before getting to board a train to go in:
ReplyDeleteEveryone was so freakin' polite. Seriously, if this had been a line to a sporting event, you would have had the inevitable grumblers and line-jumpers. But there was none of that; people were moving aside to let a woman with a stroller get through, I helped some out-of-town folks figure out the Metro system and got a free passcard for it, no one was yelling at the Metro attendants. And it stayed that way all the day long.
When a small group started calling out the usual "you are sinners who will burn in hell" rhetoric on a megaphone, the crowd around them simply shouted them down by chanting "Love trumps hate!". No violence, no animosity, just a hundred voices calling out as one.
The whole thing was amazing.
Nestor Rodriguez We had the same experience, both in metro and with the ridiculous evil christians.
ReplyDeleteThe crowd tried a few, but that one -- LOVE TRUMPS HATE -- was the one that overpowered them. That was pretty great.
Personally, I adored the sheer number of call and response calls. Fantastic.