Women's March on Washington barred from Lincoln Memorial

[n2doc]

For the thousands hoping to echo the civil rights and anti-Vietnam rallies at Lincoln Memorial by joining the women’s march on Washington the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration: time to readjust your expectations.

The Women’s March won’t be held at the Lincoln Memorial.

That’s because the National Park Service, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed documents securing large swaths of the national mall and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial for the inauguration festivities. None of these spots will be open for protesters.

The NPS filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit” for many of Washington DC’s most famous political locations for days and weeks before and after the inauguration on 20 January, said Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a constitutional rights litigator and the executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/08/womens-march-on-washington-lincoln-memorial

Amerikkka!

[yeoman6987]

1. Where were president obamas protesters located?

If they were able to be in these areas then trump protesters should to. I'd love to know the answer to that and a story in every newspaper saying so.

[Historic NY]

2. If hundreds of thousands take over the mall there is not

much the NPS can do period.

[brooklynite]

3. You can arrange that, can you?

Convince them to force their way past police barricades?

[Historic NY]

7. How can they keep hundreds of thousands out of the city?

[n2doc]

4. Will they bring out the water cannons?

I fear DC is going to be an armed police state starting on the 20th of January.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Setting up sound system and equipment would lead to arrest

Permitting of a large demonstration also includes requirements for organizers to provide for port-a-potties and a lot more.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. Hard to come up with a foul enough word for this...

I, as most people with working brains and a heart that beats genuine red blood, am running out of words for...everything attached to this...human, his faux Party, his anti-humanity machine and souless supporters.

America is disappearing before our eyes every second. I've signed countless petitions, emailed representatives, called some, used social media, have friends going to the Women's March.

I just don't know.
There are no words.
Civil or otherwise.

[Botany]

6. They can't arrest i million people

[Jean-Jacques Roussea]

9. what happened to actual protesting?

Applying for permits is literally the opposite of what protesting is. It makes you nothing but sheep.

If people wanted to get serious we could stop the inauguration in it's entirety. 100,000 cases of civil disobedience that freezes up all transportation leading to the state house, crippling DC and infuriating senators/congressmen/Trump seems like a more effective protest.

[Greybnk48]

10. Go anyway, FFS.

That's what protests are supposed to be, not some namby pamby, tippy toe "legal" horseshit. Raise HELL! Fuck, now I want to go so they can see old ladies being beaten and arrested on T.V.

[Abu Pepe]

11. And so it begins

I think we have more of a Berlusconi than Il Duce, but with nukes and less self control and bigger anger issues and dumber.

[bdamomma]

12. Again its a Woman's March right???

what did the suffragette's go through??? again power in numbers??? it took one woman on a bus to voice her dissent we have to come together. We shall overcome we will not do this

[lapislzi]

13. This old woman says: fuck that shit

On November 9, I promised my daughter, and the memories of my mother and grandmother, that I would stand shoulder to shoulder with my sisters all over this country to make it known that this shit is NOT OK. Let them arrest me. I dare them.

[likesmountains 52]

14. I'll be right there beside you.

This might actually make more women go!

[lapislzi]

15. I'm learning that there are advantages to being an Old.

Primary among them is zero fucks given.

[McCamy Taylor]

16. Video response:

[McCamy Taylor]

17. BTW, I had just about decided not to go to DC.

Trump done changed my mind.