A Woman's Place is in the Resistance

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That was a good ad, Trek. Thanks for sharing it.

I went to the March for Our Lives in DC yesterday. It was great. The speakers were all young -- teenagers, young adults, some as young as 11. They told moving stories of losing loved ones to gun violence. It was inspiring, and gave me hope for the future for the first time in a while.

There were some big musical performers there, too, but none of them took attention away from the message of the day. In fact there was no one introducing any of the speakers or performers, so I didn't know who most of them were until they started to speak and tell their stories. I have to say that I was very impressed by the overall organization of the event.

A big part of their message was to register and vote! A few days ago I saw a request for volunteers to register voters outside of a couple of Metro (subway) stations in my area, so I signed up for a two-hour shift before heading to the march. Most people who passed us were already registered, and we only registered one person, but she was a middle-aged woman who was registering to vote for the first time, which was great. (I think she may have been an immigrant.) As I exited the Metro station on my way home I saw other volunteers and asked how things were going, and they said they'd registered 4-5 people. With the close elections we've seen recently, every vote counts.