A Woman's Place is in the Resistance

[Trek420]

It's been a year... the organizers of the Women's March will be holding an anniversary "Power to the Polls" event in Las Vegas.

http://www.powertothepolls.com

Meanwhile various events are being planned around the country. A search for my ZIP Code brought up marches in DC, Baltimore and Frederick MD, plus other events. You can search you own area here.

http://www.powertothepolls.com/anniversary.html

I am planning to participate in the DC march, though thanks to the torn ankle tendon I don't think I can do nearly as much walking this year as last. So I'm not sure how involved I will be able to be.

Marching in Seattle. Also we have an upcoming school bond election. I'd said "I'm sick to death of being on the phone. 25 years of talking to our dear customers once I retire I'm never using a phone again."

Yep, calling voters and will likely do this through midterms or even 2020.

So if you get a call during midterms "hello, this is Trek420 and I'm a volunteer for ______ candidate. Is this the person to whom I am speaking?" It's me.

[ny biker]

Trek, you will probably be very good at phone banking, thanks to your experience. Hopefully it feel less stressful knowing you are working for a cause that is important to you.

I am furiously trying to finish crocheting my pussycat hat in time for the march on Saturday. I had actually finished one a couple of months ago but it was too small -- I am new to this crochet thing and still have much to learn -- so I ripped out all the stitches and started over. I sorta combined two different patterns so am just hoping it looks okay when I'm done.

Meanwhile I still don't know how much I'll be able to walk on Saturday, but I will give it a try. I think (hope) if I go slowly and stop fairly often I will be okay.

[ny biker]

Okay then. I finished the hat around 2 am. Slept later than I had planned on Saturday so I didn't get to the rally until 1 pm, which was the time that the march was supposed to start. But the speakers continued for another 90 minutes. Then we marched to the White House. It wasn't a huge crowd, but I think it was big enough. The atmosphere was good. I was very glad that I was there.

I took a selfie at the rally, with the Lincoln Memorial in the background, and posted it on Facebook. This evening I was talking to a friend about the march. He told me that he had been talking to another friend, a middle-aged man, who had seen my photo and commented that the my hat was not flattering. I told him that I don't give a f*ck. I mean seriously. Talk about missing the point.

At the rally a man was standing next to a tree holding a large poster with this quote from a Maya Angelou poem:

I, the Rock, I the River, I the Tree
I am yours -- your Passages have been paid.

Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.

History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.

Lift up your eyes upon
This day breaking for you.

Give birth again to the Dream.

Do not be wedded forever
To fear, yoked eternally
To brutishness