Notes: Subways jammed
this morning heading uptown. Ended up walking across town from Times
Square. Supposed to meet a friend at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at noon:
never happened. Every street for blocks around packed. Packed solid. Police
were cool: gave trying to control the crowds. “The streets belong to the people!” .........and lots of drivers found that out. I spent 3 wonderful hours
wandering around and smiled lots. Walked up Madison Avenue with a few thousand
others. By then all the streets off 5th Avenue (where, in theory, the
March was going to take place) were also packed solid. No idea of how
many people were there and won't even try to guess. Six figures
easy, OK? Lots of families with kids. Been a long time since I have
seen this kind of enthusiasm at a demonstration. Like since 1968 when we ran a pig for president. But that's another story. Mean time, let the snapshots do the talking and like the man said:
" Here's lookin' at you kid!"
A sad - and disturbing - footnote to this post: while all the local and national news broadcasts
lead off with stories on the day's demonstrations, our CBS Evening
News at 11:00 PM began with a story on a private plane crash in New
Jersey. That was followed by a weather report and only then did they
put up some clips of the day's protests. Coverage included a
statement that the demonstration in Chicago had been called off by
organizers because there were so many people that it could not be
contained. Could their crew have been on a break when 200,000
protesters hit Chicago's streets?
3 comments:
Thanks for capturing all these great, caring people!
Looks like the start of something big, change is in the air.
Eventually, if this week's women's marches represent a serious and sustained movement, we will see Congressional Republicans begin to side with their constituents, being more afraid of losing the next election (and the respect of their children)than they are afraid of offending Donald Trump and his hard core supporters. When that happens, the nation will finally benefit from Congressional representatives'notorious pusillanimity.
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