Womens March gets spot for post-inauguration rally

[Donkees]

December 12, 2016

Excerpt:

A women’s march that is expecting more than 100,000 attendees the day after the Jan. 20 inauguration has secured a location for its demonstration. More than a dozen other groups planning protests are still waiting on permits.

The Women’s March on Washington will begin at Independence Avenue and Third Street, Southwest, and walk west along the edge of the National Mall. More than 143,000 people have indicated on Facebook that they plan to attend.

The group does not mention President-elect Donald Trump by name, but says, “The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us — women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.”

The organizers had hoped to hold the event at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

But the National Park Service, which issues the permits, holds prime locations, including the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Ellipse by the White House and portions of the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue, for the Presidential Inaugural Committee during the period covering the date of the inauguration, according to National Parks Service spokesman Jeffrey Olson. Once the committee chooses the locations it wants to use, the National Park Service is able to release permits to other event organizers on a first-come, first-served basis.

Rather than wait indefinitely for their chosen spot, the Women’s March organizers went with another choice.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/womens-march-gets-spot-post-inauguration-rally/

[UTUSN]

2. Let's be bigger than100K!1 n/t

[Hekate]

3. Godspeed

[bdamomma]

4. Be careful

Be prepared for anything and please video tape everything. It won't be televised.

[sheshe2]

5. Already posted.

States are doing it as well. I will be in Boston. They are happening all over the country.

Do it!

[skylucy]

6. California has multiple marches that day in big cities...San Francisco,Oakland, Sacramento, etc.

RESIST