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We have been here before ~
Related Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=million%20woman%20march%202017
NY Times: http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/11/11/million-women-march-being-planned-for-january-21-2017-in-d-c/
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-million-women-march_us_582642efe4b0c4b63b0cbfa5
1997 Million Woman March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Woman_March
Will be there. Coming from NJ. Must send a message to Trump that we will not allow him to take away rights of women, gays, minorities and Muslim Americans!
Will be there from Asheville, NC. Hoping to bring a caravan of folks.
Please tell me how I can volunteer in the DENVER, COLORADO’s Million Women March. Thanks !
Hi Kate, Thanks for your query. Here’s what I found: https://www.facebook.com/events/1638075409825947/
Hello. I bought a ticket for the march for a bus leaving from Asbury Park, NJ. It was a $60 ticket, for which I have lost the virtual receipt. My question is: Does it matter if I do not have the receipt? Also, I do not now see any details regarding this route and I am unsure as to where I catch the bus. I’d appreciate any info that can help me catch that bus. Thank you.
Kathy, Thanks for dropping by and commenting.I hope you have found answers to your questions by now. Check Facebook and see if there is a page for the Asbury Park bus you have a ticket for. Best of luck!
Coming from Akron! <3
I keep reading about tickets. Are these tickets to the march or are you referring to bus tickets?
I’m sure this refers to bus tickets; have not heard of tickets being sold to any of the marches.
Will be headed to DC from Upstate NY. Do we have time/meeting place yet?
Hi Karen, Thanks for this question. Check out my updated post with everything you need to know: http://peachseedmonkey.com/2017/01/02/update-on-womens-march-on-washington
Looking for a bus to DC from Mid Michigan
Check the D.C. site
This may be a silly question but I wanted to see if it’s alright for men to attend the marches. My best friend would like to be able to join me in the march.
Yep 👍🏾
Would you please consider sharing this proposal with folks on the mailing list?
Thanks!
Gray
In a recent nonviolence training workshop preparing for the DC march, a proposal came up for giving extra meaning and power to the march — by adding a “Marchathon” element to it. I am including a draft proposal here below. Please pass it on to anyone you think might be interested.
Thanks for all your efforts to go with grace and hope into a stormy future!
Gray
A Proposal for a Marchathon as Part of the Trip to DC
One way to add purpose and clarity to the activity of taking part in the Million Women March would be to add the element of a “Marchathon” to it.
Let’s raise money for a worthy cause by asking family, friends and fellow citizens to contribute some amount per distance we travel. They could give a penny a mile to the local YWCA or women’s health clinic. Or a dollar per football field distance of 100 yards we walk to privately fund the prenatal care work of Planned Parenthood that Paul Ryan is intent on defunding.
Let’s make the Marchathon an opportunity for people to connect, to express and feel solidarity by being represented. Everyone who contributes to the funding can also share a photo of herself or himself and the marchers can carry copies of these pinned to their clothes or mounted on banners so when they march it will not be a million people walking but ten million or more. And let the marchers share photos of themselves to be displayed back home during the march – or in state capitals like Augusta, Maine, and other places where people back home are marching.
In the face of the coming slashing of budgets by the government, people want to do something. By taking money we would have spent on personal consumption or on gift cards and candies for Valentines Day, we can. If we are ambitious, if we want to try to meet the standards set by Dorothy Day and Gandhi half way, we could begin to redistribute half our individual income — instead o spending of unnecessary personal purchases that increase our carbon footprint we could spend it on works of solidarity, socially responsible investment and political change. But even if we are not ready to go half way to meeting a future in the Gandhi/Day tradition, we can take some steps, a penny a step or a dollar a mile.
If you do the math, if a million people marching each get ten people to pledge $!0, it is not hard to imagine we could raise 100 million dollars for funding worthy projects. If each person could get them to contribute $100 we could raise a billion dollars. Let’s try to get lots of people in the picture, lots of people on the bus, and lots of money on the march.
If you are going to DC, get pledges and snapshots of folks you know. If you are going to be home, plan for some kind of solidarity event for the folks you sponsor – maybe even try to get them to link up by Facetime or Skype during the march until so many do the system crashes. Get those safety pins out to carry each other into the future – and raise some really serious pin money for the people an organizations we want to pin our futures on!
All the best,
Gray
J. Gray Cox
College of the Atlantic
105 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, ME 04609
gray@coa.edu, #207-801-5712 (office) or #207-460-1163 (cell)
Four of us gals from Akron Ohio will be there!!!!!
I am happy to say see you all there and coming from Philadelphia PA
I attended the March On Washington and heard Dr King in person!