Noticing xciv - Women's March 2020

Three years ago I went to Washington, D.C., to participate in the first Women's March on January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration. I wrote about that experience here. It was a tremendous few days—so much good energy, friendship, and solidarity. The estimated number of marchers was 470,000, surely more than attended the inauguration, if only based on DC Metro travel statistics (January 21 was the second-highest ridership day in Metro's history, falling just short of the record, set on the day of Obama's first inauguration, in 2009; here is an interesting discussion of relative crowd sizes for these various events). I took a few photos that day (I continue to adore all the pink pussy hats!):

My sister-in-law Patty on the right, and her good
friend Kaisa, both from Seattle

Today here in Monterey we staged our own repeat Women's March. Two thousand attended. I was part of the tabling crew for Swing Left, where we got 21 new sign-ups for our ongoing letter-writing parties:

Kim, me, Tama, and Maggie

Here are a few shots of the event, starting with the tabling area (some 30 groups were represented, ranging from political to social justice to the environment) and a few of the signs:

Tama thanking our Congressman, Jimmy Panetta,
for introducing the Climate Action Rebate Act
of 2019 (H.R. 4051)

Tama describing Swing Left to an interested party

And here are a few from the march itself:

The march was kicked off by our local
taiko drummer group

 

Walking down Monterey's main street, Alvarado

Drumming was the musical name of the game today—
very rousing

I ran into my friends Talma and Sue, who were
with the League of Women Voters

It was fun. Probably the best part of it for me was talking to some younger people, who seemed interested and informed—and signed up for our email list, and hopefully will come and do some letter-writing.