Mtn, you nailed it with this sentence " If it just means we win back some midterm seats, and get T out in 2020, that’s fine."

the first opportunity to bring about change will be the mid-term elections. I sincerely hope that yesterday serves as the first step in getting people out to vote in those elections. Larger vote counts in that election would be success!

Halifax Nova Scotia (sadly I was at work)

Tucson was wonderful,. I had been worried about violence but the mood was sweet and friendly. It drizzled on and off and a senior woman in front of me, spontaneously offered me her umbrella. The signs were wonderful. There was even a pregnant man. Pussycaps were everywhere. We are a university town and a retiree magnet and both were well represented. Children and puppies too. A great day. Thanks to organizers.

Found a pic of the lone counter protester I mentioned:

He even said he wasn't angry.

Source:

http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/20000-join-womens-march-st-petersburg#stream/0

John McCain just mentioned the importance of the marches on this week with George. This is a wonderful acknowledgment. He also loves many of trump's team picks but was impressed by the turn out and understands the importance of listening. Let's hope the movement leads to true bipartisan progress and conversation.

I thought of all my dear fellow GW-ers yesterday when I saw the sign: "There are smarter cabinets at IKEA."

My sister brought our 85 yo mother to our local March. My sister estimated there were 800 people there. It's not an official head count, but Bethlehem Pa was peacefully protesting.

I have to say, I respect John McCain very much and feel a tad bit better that he loves some of the cabinet picks. Calm down fellow pinko commie liberals... I mean, I may not agree with them ideologically but at this point the bar for me is "are they raving lunatics?"

I believe John McCain always acts in the way he feels is best for the country as a whole and also have great respect for his opinion and delivery even if I disagree with that opinion. I am actually a center leaning liberal so McCain's platform does often jive with me, like Clinton and Obama have...

I wasn't able to attend yesterday as I was bringing DH home from the hospital. It has been wonderful seeing all the social media pictures of these amazing marches. You can add 3,500 in Portsmouth, NH to the list. This photo was in our local paper showing Market Square.

mimou - you can add 600 from Tokyo to your list. When I noticed Tokyo being a part of the march it dawned on me that many of these marches had started before the east coast was even awake, before it was known what would happen in the US. Your allies really had your back.

One of the pics has what some consider a "bad" word. You have been warned.

I was at the DC, I won't say march, because where I was there wasn't any room to march. We were packed in so tightly that it was almost impossible to move. I was at 7th and Independence avenue, about 20 or so feet from the street sign, and it took about a half hour to get from where I was to the street.

I was surprised that I only found one DC area local among all the people I met. San Francisco, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Delaware, New Jersey, Michigan, Baltimore, Williamsburg, and that was just the people around me.

I got in early, and there standing room only at the Metro stop where I got on, and that was two stops from the end of the line. As we got closer to DC, the train was so packed that no one else could get on. We left before the actual marching started, after about 4 1/2 hours of speeches, and found huge crowds at the metro stations.

Looking back from my vantage point near the jumbotron at 7th and Independence.

If you look closely you can see a row of people along the wall in front of the Hirschhorn Museum.

I just looked at the NY Times wonderful photos from around the world, with a globe attaching to show just where the photos were from. It made me weep to see how women around the world are in solidarity against this despicable man and his agenda. We will get through this together and are a force to be reckoned with.

Women's March images

Women, and men as well. : )

Thanks for sharing that, Olychick. It made me cry too.

:( The NYT says I've already used up my monthly quota of free views.

Linelle, you should have the ability in your browser to open a "private" window or opt for "private browsing" or "incognito browsing" in Chrome. If you do this, and type in the name of the article into Google in your "private window", you can get around the article limits.

If you clear your cookies, internet history, can they know how many times you've been there? I would get an article limit once in a while from newspapers sites, including the local paper in my elderly mothers city when I would be trying to keep up with things I thought may be of interest to her. Running CCleaner (free version) was my work around.

Clearing cookies would work to allow access but then you lose stored passwords and settings on all your sites, which can be a big hassle. Opening a private window is usually easier for most.

If you have a .edu email, you can get a free educational online account for NYT and WashingtonPost.

To the list, you can add 10,000 Charlotte, NC, and 2,000 Columbia, SC. Cool to see tiny Floyd, VA on the list with 200.

Beagles, thank you so much for your help. Why didn't I know this before? I discovered that if I right-click on the link above, I get the option to Open Link in Incognito Window. So easy. Thanks again.

I needed a couple of kleenexes to get through all the images. Amazing. My only issue is my town isn't included. :(

Me too. Thank you for the link, Olychick.

I am thrilled by the turn out across the globe. It brought tears to my eyes to see how many of us want to protect our rights and vote for love, not hate. I don't want this to be just about Trump, because if it is, it will live and die with him . I want this to last well beyond Trump. I hope our country can promote humanity instead of exclusion. The rest of the world is watching us.

I like the sign from Florence, Italy:

MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN!

Those photos are wonderful, it was the first time I looked through all of them. One thing very striking to me; I don't think there was a single photo that was just women. Lots of men, so many families, so many generations, and so many races.

A gentle suggestion. Our free press is not just under assault by our lying President. It is also threatened by the economics of free content. The best and the brightest work at papers like the NYT, the WAPO, the Boston Globe, The New Yorker. With TV networks now run for a profit (it used to be considered a non-profit operation, necessary to satisfy the FCC in order to get a license), investigative reporting has been gutted. Consider subscribing to whatever newspaper you feel is reputable..

A digital subscription to the NYTime is $3.75 a week. That is about half a movie ticket, or less than your typical order at Starbucks. Many bright people are no longer going into journalism because the economics are so poor.

https://myaccount.nytimes.com/get-started/auth?OC=20000561421#login

I do what Beagles suggests and open a private window. Sometimes I just open a different browser, switching from Firefox to Chrome. Not sure if you can browse from your phone, but that might be another option. Also, some libraries have online subscriptions you can access from your computer.

ETA: I did what Mtn is suggesting and signed up for an online subscription to the NYT JUST to support them. I am lucky to be able to afford it, so if you can, please subscribe and keep the best of the real news press alive!

From Brene Brown. Love it!

I should have carried that introvert poster, lol!

Nhbaskets, your image is so telling... church steeple and all. That is AMERICA to me. This movement cannot be denied.

Texanjana, my introvert sister texted me the same sign! Love it.

Loved the images from around the world. Here are a few shots from the march in my town, Ottawa.

One of the women I invited to join me at the march has never, to my recollection, posted anything controversial or political on FB. Today she did. The march did that. (fist pump)

I marched with some of my family and 120,000 others in Seattle; and it was an uplifting, very positive experience. Everyone was extremely polite and affirming of the other. It allowed me to have some great conversation with people who are very different from me in many ways but who can support each other for the goals we share in common. Dialogue, dialogue. We have to get out of our comfort zones and learn to listen as well as speak.

That's a great tip to support papers that do real investigative journalism. We subscribed to the NYT last fall. Ladies, pass that suggestion on!

These are some good images from our local march. Good photo of the taxidermy wild cat.

C5 Link

I was at the Los Angeles March, truly thrilling. I was looking for more, to continue this energy forward. We can't stop here.

Happened on this:

Keep the Momentum Going Ladies! @ 10 Challenges for the first 100 days!

So much more we can do!

I'm up for the challenge. How about you?

If you attended a march, any march, please text “count me” to 89800 to register that you went to a march. They will respond with a link for you to fill in. Trying to get a good count to counteract the trump lies…pass it on to your friends.

There's a UConn prof who is aggregating the data from all the marches across the US and he estimates that between 1-1.5% of the US population marched on Saturday. Absolutely stunning! You can see his spreadsheet here. It's worth looking at just to see the list of towns and cities across the country that held marches.

As Sherlock Holmes would say, "The game's afoot Watson!"

I went to DC and it was a totally amazing experience. Everyone was incredible, supportive, energized, and glad to be participating in such a mind-blowing event.

The plane down was full of marchers...I gave away my extra pussyhats to a nice bunch of gals on the plane.

The metro was so jammed with people like sardines...not a single other person could fit in. Even the driver asked us to march for her since she had to work, but was with us in spirit!

To get to the mall, we were like a finger through water, trying to work our way down through the crowds. We never got anywhere near the stage or even the big screen TVs, but once the march started, we were able to finally make our way to the start. We marched from in front of the capitol up pennsylvania ave to trump hotel and then further up, though we never made the WH.

I can't even begin to express how many people were there. It was literally people flowing like a river with side streets jammed full making their way to our street...and these avenues are WIDE. There were viewing stands from the inauguration still up that had people in them cheering us along. A sea of pink pussy hats. Some clever signs. Excitement all the way. Chants of "this is what democracy looks like" and "hey hey, ho ho, donald trump has got to go". When we got to the trump hotel, the crowd got really loud, lots of birds waving and chants of "pay your taxes!" went up. I looked in all the windows and didn't see anyone there...not sure if anyone was even in the hotel, but the next day when we walked by it was still heavily guarded.

If trump and spicer (!?! how do you pay someone enough to lie like that!!!) want to dick around about his inauguration vs. obama's that's one thing, but there's no way they can deny that the day after in protest dwarfed his event, in washington, in the nation, and around the world.

Glad you checked in, Annie. I wondered about you yesterday. I texted my attendance.

Here I am at the DC march with my daughter who came down from Philadelphia. We tried to get into town from our neighborhood Metro station, but lines were blocks long, so my dear husband drove us to his office near the American Indian Museum! My son and his girlfriend were in the crowd, along with many friends and neighbors. The number of people attending was staggering, and spirits were high. It was such an excellent antidote to Friday's "carnage." I was thrilled that marches took place around the US and the world. It gives me hope!

I texted too. Thanks Annie.

I texted too, thank you for the info, Annie.

My boyfriend and I
were with the 250,000 in NYC. We came from his house in Brooklyn, and the
subway was jam-packed. Got off at Grand Central Station onto a very crowded 42nd
Street and got swept into the crowd up 5th Avenue. 10 blocks away from
Trump Tower it was impossible to move even on 6th and Madison
Avenues & crowds spilled over onto Park as well – the entire mid-town of Manhattan
was taken over. There were men and women of all ages, colors, languages and persuasions
and everyone was polite, helpful and respectful. I didn’t see any
anti-protests. When we had dinner on 2nd Avenue I was shocked to see
on TV the lying press conference by Sean Spicer. It was so much like the
dictatorships in 3rd-world countries when he said this was the
biggest inaugural celebration in history, period, and that's how it must be reported. Wow. We must keep up the fight.

You go, Annie!

Someone had a sign that said something like, "You know you're in trouble when the librarians start to march".

From the mall, looking towards the capitol

and looking towards the Washington monument

Kitchenwitch,

The back of my sign said:

OMG, GOP. WTF? #NotNormal

KK....how in the world were you able to drive to NMAI? I thought all the roads were blocked off and with all the people and everything. I'm impressed!

I thought it was also striking how much Trump's own state and city are against him...that speaks volumes.

Here is a great article that came up in my FB feed. It's about Catholic and other religious organizations that joined the march and their reasons.

http://globalsistersreport.org/news/equality/womens-march-draws-record-crowds-worldwide-demonstrations-equality-44561

New York hates Trump and always has. He's an opportunist and a cheat. Don the Con! I personally know several people who have been screwed by him in real estate and in construction.

Also NYC is a very Liberal town.

Reposting this as encouragement to remain active:

Our vice president today blatantly disregarded the separation of church and state. He proclaimed his religious beliefs while on the clock and inserted his intentions in how they influence his representation of our country.

A complete and utter disregard for our Constitution.