Women's March is the Biggest Protest on US History as an Estimated 2.9 Million March

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LeafByNiggle said:
But the legislation and citizens voting starts with what you call rabble rousing. Like those rabble rousing suffragettes who preceded the legal procedures that asserted the right to vote for women.
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Oh what the heck, give them their tax free tampons!
 
Sarcelle said:
I will have to agree with Michael. He is right.

It is a march that does not represent women of various views. I as a pro-lifer am not represented by those women.
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These Catholic religious didn’t let that stop them.

Sr. Jo’Ann De Quattro made her travel arrangements from California to Washington, D.C., last summer because she thought she would be attending Hillary Clinton’s inauguration. Sister De Quattro planned on carrying a sign at the Women’s March that said: “Sisters of the Holy Names, We Stand for Migrants and We Are All Immigrants.” The sign was to include a picture of De Quattro’s paternal Italian family.

“The values of the person that will be inaugurated are not the values that I hold dear,” De Quattro said. “I’m not going to the inauguration because I believe that as it is, our country is deeply divided, and so to go to the inauguration would indicate either I support the person being inaugurated or I oppose. To express that opposition, I’d have to brave supporters of this person … I want to march with like-minded people who value inclusivity and respect, women’s rights, welcoming difference and diversity.”

“It’s as much about solidarity with each other, that we have each other’s backs,” Sister Simone Campbell said. “It’s about building community. We will not be afraid.”

“It’s about mending the gaps among us,” Campbell went on to say. “It doesn’t have to be this way, but we can make change happen by staying engaged. … This is a time where business as usual won’t work, and I really think that what we all need is to be very reflective — and I call it contemplative — and listen for when the Spirit nudges and act on what we hear. That’s my most urgent message to the faith community. It’s a time not like any other I know, so we have to engage differently to make sure that all have a chance to live in dignity. It’s actually a very Pope Francis message.”

Several sisters from Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, planned on attending the D.C. Women’s March, including Sr. Barbara Battista.

“It’s about showing solidarity and being positive at this time,” Battista said. She was travelling to D.C. with fellow sisters and students of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.

Sr. Kathleen Desautels, also a Sister of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, was driving to D.C. for the Women’s March from Chicago with four members of the 8th Day Center for Justice, where she works. The center is a Catholic social justice organization that works to promote equality by eliminating the root causes of systemic oppression and serves as a voice for marginalized people.

“My effort is to stand up and to be a voice for what is just and right for those that are most on the margins, and so I join this particular march to join others who believe that justice must prevail,” Desautels said. “I’m doing it to be with people that I feel will be energized by the same spirit of wanting to stand up for those that are going to be most affected by the policies that this new administration is proposing.”

All the sisters said they welcome the open dialogue among people with different beliefs.

“If anything, our presence will lift up the full aspect of all of life,” Campbell said. “That’s who we are, that’s what we’re about. The idea that you can’t talk to people who have a different perspective in a democracy … that, to me, is wrong. We’ve got to engage, and that’s why we’re going.”

globalsistersreport.org/news/we-have-each-others-backs-we-will-not-be-afraid-44496
 
AClaire11 said:
I did not attend, but have several relatives and friends who did.
  1. It seemed to me that it was due to pressure from the more extreme, vocal pro choice faction. I’m sure we’ve all noticed people changing their stances to due to outcries from vocal groups lately.
  2. I would say there is considerable diversity of opinion. Some are pro life themselves but don’t feel they or the government should make that choice for everyone. Some think the best option is to keep abortion as rare as possible, but have it remain legal to prevent unsafe illegal procedures and for the sake of those who might need one for extreme circumstances. Then, of course, there are the very vocal ones who blast the opposition as evil. Not that these descriptions cover everyone.
  3. I did not attend. Those were appalling.
  4. Again, I did not attend, but those I know who do not subscribe to the typical liberal platform and carried signs signaling their religious beliefs had a positive time and were not heckled.
  5. I do not know who was or was not offered a platform to speak. I’m not sure why someone who voted for Trump would wish to speak at a march opposing his administration and proposed policies, though, so I would tentatively assume they wouldn’t try to speak in the first place.
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Thanks, Claire. I was under the impression that you attended one of the marches, I apologize for that assumption. I did read your post and have read several of your other posts but clearly not intently enough. 😊

I think your answers, based on what you heard or were told, do provide a bit of clarity on the intent of the marches and the fact that the marches were not for all women but for women who either hold a liberal view or hold a “private” conservative view but tend to keep it to themselves (perhaps what we would call the “privately opposed, publicly in favor” variety–which I do not think is valid).

In essence these were anti-Trump protests. As my wife mentioned at breakfast this morning–and the rest of this is all her words, not mine: it’s essential to oppose degrading talk about women, to advocate for equal pay for equal work, to advocate protection for minority groups and for compassionate immigration policy. Had those been the issues, she would have been at the march in Helena. However, the marches were not really about women, they were anti-Trump, anti-conservative protests. Vile and hateful things were said, profanity flowed freely, Planned Parenthood hijacked the march to the exclusion of pro-life women (wonder if they used our tax dollars to sponsor the march?). So why call it the Women’s March when certain women were clearly not invited and the march was clearly meant to be a demonstration of liberal women against Trump.
 
AClaire11 said:
Your constant derogatory comments on threads in this sub forum do not contribute to the discussion. Further, it’s not up to you to police what people call their protests.
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The misrepresentation of this Women’s March " was that no pro life women need participate,in fact they were barred from this event,All the while it has been touted as all inclusive,clearly this isn’t the case,Add to that their vitriole against our new POTUS,gave them away.
 
Michael68 said:
I understand it seems inflammatory, but Ashley Judd is very adamant about it so I say its doable
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Yeah I know, but Ashley Judd didn’t post it here. :rolleyes:

Anyway, you’re an adult. Just trying to help. 🤷
 
Sy_Noe said:
These Catholic religious didn’t let that stop them.

Sr. Jo’Ann De Quattro made her travel arrangements from California to Washington, D.C., last summer because she thought she would be attending Hillary Clinton’s inauguration. Sister De Quattro planned on carrying a sign at the Women’s March that said: “Sisters of the Holy Names, We Stand for Migrants and We Are All Immigrants.” The sign was to include a picture of De Quattro’s paternal Italian family.

“The values of the person that will be inaugurated are not the values that I hold dear,” De Quattro said. “I’m not going to the inauguration because I believe that as it is, our country is deeply divided, and so to go to the inauguration would indicate either I support the person being inaugurated or I oppose. To express that opposition, I’d have to brave supporters of this person … I want to march with like-minded people who value inclusivity and respect, women’s rights, welcoming difference and diversity.”

“It’s as much about solidarity with each other, that we have each other’s backs,” Sister Simone Campbell said. “It’s about building community. We will not be afraid.”

“It’s about mending the gaps among us,” Campbell went on to say. “It doesn’t have to be this way, but we can make change happen by staying engaged. … This is a time where business as usual won’t work, and I really think that what we all need is to be very reflective — and I call it contemplative — and listen for when the Spirit nudges and act on what we hear. That’s my most urgent message to the faith community. It’s a time not like any other I know, so we have to engage differently to make sure that all have a chance to live in dignity. It’s actually a very Pope Francis message.”

Several sisters from Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, planned on attending the D.C. Women’s March, including Sr. Barbara Battista.

“It’s about showing solidarity and being positive at this time,” Battista said. She was travelling to D.C. with fellow sisters and students of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College.

Sr. Kathleen Desautels, also a Sister of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, was driving to D.C. for the Women’s March from Chicago with four members of the 8th Day Center for Justice, where she works. The center is a Catholic social justice organization that works to promote equality by eliminating the root causes of systemic oppression and serves as a voice for marginalized people.

“My effort is to stand up and to be a voice for what is just and right for those that are most on the margins, and so I join this particular march to join others who believe that justice must prevail,” Desautels said. “I’m doing it to be with people that I feel will be energized by the same spirit of wanting to stand up for those that are going to be most affected by the policies that this new administration is proposing.”

All the sisters said they welcome the open dialogue among people with different beliefs.

“If anything, our presence will lift up the full aspect of all of life,” Campbell said. “That’s who we are, that’s what we’re about. The idea that you can’t talk to people who have a different perspective in a democracy … that, to me, is wrong. We’ve got to engage, and that’s why we’re going.”

globalsistersreport.org/news/we-have-each-others-backs-we-will-not-be-afraid-44496
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You have posted this elsewhere. The comments make it quite clear that some of these women are dissenting Catholic religious. They are, in the opposite direction, like SSPX: the Church isn’t sponsoring them, doesn’t ordain nuns so there’s really only so much the Church can do but I am quite certain their local bishops weren’t providing invocations at the various marches or sponsoring their attendance.

It’s a nice story for democrats and liberals to hold out these four nuns as representing the Church but they don’t.

Also, at least one of these women is a member of the nuns on the bus funded by George Soros, who was a sponsor of the marches and who is dumping millions into Poland and Ireland to support abortion.

No, Sy, these women don’t prove or say anything about the Church except that their are Catholics who oppose some Church teaching.
 
AClaire11 said:
It’s also proper for the rights of the minority to be protected against the tyranny of the majority. That’s why we have a representative democracy instead of a pure democracy. As they say, democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for dinner.
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And where are the rights of the unborn protected?
 
LeafByNiggle said:
St. Paul, Minnesota is not on either coast, but we had over 90,000 in the march yesterday. So it is not just a “coastal elite” thing. Other non-coastal cities include:

Chicago: 150,000
Austin: 50,000
Houston: 20,000
St. Louis: 10,000
New Orleans: 10,000
Denver: 100,000

So it is hard to dismiss this as a mere nothing or solely the actions of coastal elites.
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Very hard and TX and Louisiana and MO are red states as was MI and others in this go round.

In addition, in Lansing MI 8000 protested.

detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2017/01/21/womens-march-draws-michigan-capitol/96891298/

Madison WI police estimated 75,000 there.

beloitdailynews.com/article/20170121/AP/301219770
 
Della said:
Protections, certainly, but not imposition of the will of the few on the many regarding violations of conscience and religious beliefs, as we’ve seen over the last 8 years.
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What are you talking about? Christians here have it wayyyyy better than Christians in other parts of the world. :rolleyes: Look at the Christians in the middle east and just be happy.
 
RCinMT said:
Thanks, Claire. I was under the impression that you attended one of the marches, I apologize for that assumption. I did read your post and have read several of your other posts but clearly not intently enough. 😊

I think your answers, based on what you heard or were told, do provide a bit of clarity on the intent of the marches and the fact that the marches were not for all women but for women who either hold a liberal view or hold a “private” conservative view but tend to keep it to themselves (perhaps what we would call the “privately opposed, publicly in favor” variety–which I do not think is valid).

In essence these were anti-Trump protests. As my wife mentioned at breakfast this morning–and the rest of this is all her words, not mine: it’s essential to oppose degrading talk about women, to advocate for equal pay for equal work, to advocate protection for minority groups and for compassionate immigration policy. Had those been the issues, she would have been at the march in Helena. However, the marches were not really about women, they were anti-Trump, anti-conservative protests. Vile and hateful things were said, profanity flowed freely, Planned Parenthood hijacked the march to the exclusion of pro-life women (wonder if they used our tax dollars to sponsor the march?). So why call it the Women’s March when certain women were clearly not invited and the march was clearly meant to be a demonstration of liberal women against Trump.
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That is a valid point. I and others see the things you mention as essential to oppose as important enough to participate, and I respect those who feel the need to not participate. I don’t claim that it represented all women or that there were not very disagreeable elements. I just don’t think we have the right to tell them what to call it or that it is proper to make rude remarks about the participants. That is my main complaint with how the topic is being treated by some on this forum. As an assault survivor who experienced an egregious amount of sexual harassment in middle school, high school, and college, and as a libertarian, I find Trump objectionable both as a person and as the head of an administration. Hopefully we can all come together to serve our communities in spite of our ideological differences. That would actually make America great again.
 
Sy_Noe said:
Very hard and TX and Louisiana and MO are red states as was MI and others in this go round.

In addition, in Lansing MI 8000 protested.

detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/michigan/2017/01/21/womens-march-draws-michigan-capitol/96891298/

Madison WI police estimated 75,000 there.

beloitdailynews.com/article/20170121/AP/301219770
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So, where were their votes when it mattered? It’s too late now to cry and whine about losing the election. Really, it’s ridiculous. It’s time to let it go and move on, for crying out loud. :rolleyes:
 
Della said:
So, where were their votes when it mattered? It’s too late now to cry and whine about losing the election. Really, it’s ridiculous. It’s time to let it go and move on, for crying out loud. :rolleyes:
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BioNerd said:
What are you talking about? Christians here have it wayyyyy better than Christians in other parts of the world. :rolleyes: Look at the Christians in the middle east and just be happy.
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That is an extremely insulting and demeaning comment. How would you like it if I said “from a rights and pay standpoint women in America have it way better than women in other parts of the world. Look at women in the Middle East and just be happy”.

That would, rightfully, go over about as well as sand paper on fresh tar.
 
Michael68 said:
Am I not allowed my opinion? Who made you the police?
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nope, you’re not allowed your opinion. If you disagree with any leftist/progressive/authoritarian policies then you best sit down and keep your mouth shut.

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