WOMEN'S MARCH IN BOSTON + D.C., NATIONALLY + GLOBALLY

Senator Elizabeth Warren incited a crowd of tens of thousands who gathered on Boston Common Saturday afternoon for the Women’s March.

“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back!” called Warren, as marchers clad in pink hats and waving protest signs screamed their agreement. “We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”

The Boston event is one of more than 670 marches being held nationwide and globally, a day after President Trump formally took office. Speakers in Boston included Warren, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and Attorney General Maura Healey.
Warren conjured the core values of American democracy: respect for every human being, economic opportunity, and celebration of diversity. She called for raising the minimum wage, protecting unions, fighting climate change, shielding immigrant families from deportation, and making sure gay marriage is not undermined. And she called on supporters to draw motivation from Trump’s inauguration Friday – a moment she said was burned in her mind.

“That is why we come together today, hundreds of thousands of people in Boston and Washington, and across this country,” she cried. “We are in marches to say we are fighting back! That’s who we are.” 

She also railed against Trump’s policies, including his oft-uttered promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border.

“Immigration makes us a stronger country. We will not build a stupid wall, and we will not tear millions of families apart. Not on our watch,” Warren proclaimed to applause and cheers.
“And we believe that sexism, racism, homophobia, and bigotry have no place in this country,” Warren continued. “Black lives matter; diversity makes our country stronger. We believe that equal means equal and that’s true in the workplace, it’s true in marriage, it’s true every place.”
  All of the above from the article in the Boston Globe, Jan. 21, 2017

Elizabeth Warren's speech at the Boston Common:

More people are at this Rally than were at the Inauguration yesterday - good sign = HOPE. As a woman who came of age in the '60's, this is the first time since the '60's that thousands of people are in the streets demanding Change. In my experience, that's the only way change happens.

PS. My grandfather was a shop steward. I inherited that gene. In 1973 I went with friends to D.C.  to Nixon's inauguration to protest the Vietnam War. It's in the genes. Somewhere I have a picture of that...

Protest Richard Nixon Inauguration + Vietnam War, 1973. Photo by: Carol Miller