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So this is what hope looks like!
I was in India and couldn’t take part, but I’m so grateful and proud of my sisters, my nieces, cousins, family and friends. They wore pink pussy hats and carried signs and held hands. They marched for our country, our children, and our future. They are beautiful and more importantly, they are hope.
This is the upside of the downside. This is an outpouring of energy, and true democracy like I have never seen in my very long life. It is wide in age, it is deep in diversity, and remember, the Constitution does not begin with “I the president,” it begins with “we the people.”—Gloria Steinem, Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2107
Barb Taub 
The New York Times collection of photos of marches all over the world is incredible.
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You’re right Eileen. It’s such an inspiration to realize how many people in the US and around the world are ready to stand up for what they believe.
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This is the beginning of the ROAR!
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Oh I DO hope so!!!!
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Lots of men were out in Orlando, too. Hopefully supporting their daughter’s and wives, and not trying to pick up chicks…lol….Just kidding. I know some of the guys and they are real troopers. Hope you are having a nice time in India.
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It really gives me hope that so many are ready to stand up for their beliefs and rights.
And India is (of course!) fabulous.
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Reblogged this on Judith Barrow and commented:
A post from Barb Taub for all the women in our world
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Thanks so SO much for the reblog.
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It’s a post that needs to be spread around, Barb. Difficult times. Not sure I want to live in Trumpton.
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You’re not alone. Apparently, there was a group of trumpet players in the NY march, and they played the Darth Vader theme when passing Trump Tower.
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hahaha. Yet still he insists he ‘loved by the people’
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Of course he also insists that his inauguration had the largest audience in history and that the photos and related data showing the opposite were doctored.
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Marched in Ann Arbor yesterday
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Thank you so much for marching for all of us.
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I think women of the world are united on this one.. and many men.. thanks Barb.
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Like many people, I’ve been actually terrified of what would happen when Trump took office. This march is a reminder that a huge majority of people voted against him, and we are still out there.
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I couldn’t go, so my local group offered to take my name on a piece of paper with them and march in my name. I was so touched. Wonderful. Please let it be the beginning of a coming together of ‘sane’ people, and the defeat of hatred and bigotry!
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מפיך לאוזני אלוהים (From your lips to God’s ear)
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Canadians in Florida were proud to walk in solidarity with the amazing crowds of women, men, children. Gloria Steinem said it so well #wethepeople
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It’s so hopeful that this message is supported around the world!
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A real flicker of hope that hate and bigotry will never be accepted.
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We can NOT let it be accepted. And I’m thrilled that so many people—I’ve heard over 3 million around the world—are willing to march for this message.
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I’ll be one of them.
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A small–or maybe not so small–sign of hope in these dark days is that all sorts of people who’ve never been activists before are turning out, feeling the need to act. Right now, I wish I weren’t so far away.
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“I am no longer accepting the things I can’t change. I am changing the things I cannot accept” -angela davis
This morning there was a women’s forum on t.v. discussing Trump. One woman says “as an AMERICAN she must support and hope that the president is successful” – I totally disagree. If the president were to succeed with his professed agenda (a wall, a list of Muslims, deportation, a world of privileged pussy grabbing white men …) we will all lose.
Thankyou to all who marched.
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It was amazing in Denver. A huge, peaceful, and diverse crowd marched.
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I’m still asking what was the point, the goals. There were so many different voices calling for everything under the sun, that any unified goals were lost. In Washington, the marchers were vast majority white. What about our sisters of color? Was this a march of privileged white women, all pro choice (the pro lifers were dis-invited)? Was it all just about liberalism and hating Trump?
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I think the point was simple–we’re here. We don’t agree with your agenda. We won’t make it easy for you. We won’t go away. I don’t accept that it was a match of white privilege. Indeed I think it had simple goals and they were achieved.
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Yo uare so right!
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A friend marched from Connecticut. There must be much more than marches. People become complacent and they lose their purpose and intent. The Tea Party is loud and makes their voice heard. They are vigilant. Pink fuzzy hats are cute but did nothing to stop the tyrant from doing what he set out to do. Women need to run for Congress & Senate in the next elections. They need to be much stronger and more vocal. They need to lose the pink hats which are associated with a disease and Pink–Victoria secret models. Black vinyl–studs–fists and angry chants. Women need to be hard to be heard.
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