What I learned at the People’s March (aka #WomensMarch) in Los Angeles today. (And from all my friends who marched all over).
1.) Whoa! That was a lot of people!
2.) There were a lot of women marching. There were a lot of men marching. There were a lot of 92 year olds and a lot of 2 year olds marching. There were a lot of immigrants and LGBT people and people of every race and color and religion imaginable marching. THIS IS NORMAL.
3.) People were peaceful. People were friendly. People talked to each other, and laughed with each other and were polite to each other. People sang songs together. People chanted together and cheered together. THIS IS NORMAL TOO.
4.) California is a #Resistance state. In the speeches I heard, California politicians and congresspeople all vowed to do whatever it might take to keep human rights intact. California, the fifth largest economy in the world. So if you somehow are still thinking that your racism, your misogyny, your corruption, your homophobia are good for the economy—you are wrong. Racism is not normal. Misogyny is not normal. Fraud not normal. Violations of human rights are NOT NORMAL. We—we the people who turned out in the millions to be in solidarity together—we are normal.
5) Some of the photos I posted are from LA. Some from NYC. Some from DC. Some from Boston. The people were all the same. The signs were all the same. (Truly the signs of our times.) We are everywhere. We the people.
6) This is not about Donald Trump. This is about us. And we will march on.
#WomensMarch #ThisIsNormal
Protest math:
680,000+ in DC
500,000 in Los Angeles, CA
200,000 in Denver
250,000 in Chicago
10,000 in Augusta, ME
5,000 in Boise, ID
75,000-100,000 in Madison, WI
17,000 in St. Petersburg, FL
10,000 in Portland, ME
60,000 in St. Paul, MN
10,000 in Miami, FL
200 in Floyd, VA
20-30,000 in San Diego, CA
100,000 in London, UK
20,000 in Montpelier, VT (including Bernie Sanders)
120,000 in Seattle, WA
5,000 in Copenhagen, Denmark
35,000-100,000 in Portland, OR
10,000 in Asheville, NC
10,000 in Hartford, CT
5,500 in Helena, MT
2,000 in Ventura, CA
30 in Antartica (don’t believe it? Here’s the pic.)
1,700 Wenatchee, WA
25,000 San Jose, CA
60,000 Oakland, CA
10,000 Dallas, TX
200,000 Boston, MA
1,000 Fargo, ND
4,500 Athens, GA
1,700 Pasadena, CA
100 Martha’s Vineyard, MA
15,000 Cleveland, OH
50,000 Austin, TX
427 Bayfield, WI (pop 487 LOL.)
20,000 Albuquerque, NM
1,000 Westfield, NJ
10,000 Melbourne, Australia (
4,000 Topeka, KS
3,000 Wichita, KS
500 Sandpoint, ID
2,000 Greenville, SC
100+ in Taos, NM
500,000 New York City, NY
4,000 Trenton, NJ
1,000 Providence, RI
60,000 Toronto, Canada
10,000 Lansing, MI
2,500 Victoria, BC Canada
2,000 South Orange/Maple Wood, NJ
10,000 Bellingham, WA
10,000+ Indianapolis, IN
20,000 St. Louis, MO
1 Conover, WI (everyone counts! Thx for being out there!)
1,000 Fayetteville, AR
15,000 in Orange County, CA
60,000 Atlanta, GA
1,000 Seoul, South Korea
7,000 Raleigh, NC
100 Corvallis, OR
8,000 Lincoln, NE
5,000 Tuscon, AZ
1 Gila, NM (whoot! Thx for showing up!)
4,000 Ashland, OR
300 Minocqua, WI
2-3,000 Key West, FL (unconfirmed)
250 Antigua, Guatemala
10,000 Olympia, WA
2-3,000 Binghamton, NY
500+ Silver City, NM
300+ Yakima, WA
15,000 Las Vegas, NV
26,000 Des Moines, IA
1,000 Newark, NJ
300+ Rome, Italy
70 Eastport, ME
10,000 Ithaca, NY
100,000 Minneapolis, MN
5,000 Concord, NH
100 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada
10,000 in Cincinnati, OH
17,000 Santa Fe, NM (25% of the electorate, fyi)
30,000 Sarasota, FL (unconfirmed)
3,300 Sioux Falls, SD
1,000 Gainesville, FL
1 Crestone, CO (Yay! Stand up, be counted!)
5,000 Colorado Springs, CO
2,500 Charlottesville, VA
15,000 Tallahassee, FL
4,000 Poughkeepsie, NY
1,000 and 20,000 Pittsburg, PA (two marches)
Are we missing your city? Please let us know.
Hiya! Thanks for this! Incredible! Also Eugene OR somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000.
Well said Jed Diamond. I am optimistic that this will be the case.
Thousands of people marched in Nashville TN!!!
Here in Willits (small town of 5,000), we had hundreds of people marching. I suspect there were many small towns like ours that are too small to count. As I said in my recent blog post, https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-donald-trumps-presidency-will-surprisingly-be-the-worlds-greatest-gift-wcz/, Donald Trump’s presidency may bring the country (and the world) together to stand up for what we truly want and need. GMP is helping to lead the way.
There were over 200 people marching in Mazatlan today.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/women-march-edmonton-1.3946859