At the Topeka Women's March--2017
I had just gotten back from DC the night before, having served 31 hours in jail for demonstrating against the death penalty there (the blue band on my wrist is my ID from jail). It is against present law to protest on the steps of the (sometimes) Supreme Court. Nonetheless, I and my fellow protesters feel that since the death penalty has been affirmed over and over again by that court, that is where the protest needs to be. (It occurred on the 17th--the 40th anniversary of the resumption of executions in the US.) After my release, I thought about saying for the DC women's march, but felt the numbers were going to be huge there and so came back for the Topeka, Kansas sister march. The crowd was pretty good! Between four and five thousand people were on the Capitol grounds. Perhaps that's one silver lining in this disaster called the 2016 presidential election--people may rise up to get involved like at no time since the 60's. The 2017 women's marches actually were bigger than anything seen even back during the civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam marches of the turbulent 60's. Cool!!
Something tells me that I'll be going to a lot of protests over the next few years.
Incidentally, I handed my camera to a fellow marcher for this pic. I didn't bring my tripod.
At the Topeka Women's March--2017
I had just gotten back from DC the night before, having served 31 hours in jail for demonstrating against the death penalty there (the blue band on my wrist is my ID from jail). It is against present law to protest on the steps of the (sometimes) Supreme Court. Nonetheless, I and my fellow protesters feel that since the death penalty has been affirmed over and over again by that court, that is where the protest needs to be. (It occurred on the 17th--the 40th anniversary of the resumption of executions in the US.) After my release, I thought about saying for the DC women's march, but felt the numbers were going to be huge there and so came back for the Topeka, Kansas sister march. The crowd was pretty good! Between four and five thousand people were on the Capitol grounds. Perhaps that's one silver lining in this disaster called the 2016 presidential election--people may rise up to get involved like at no time since the 60's. The 2017 women's marches actually were bigger than anything seen even back during the civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam marches of the turbulent 60's. Cool!!
Something tells me that I'll be going to a lot of protests over the next few years.
Incidentally, I handed my camera to a fellow marcher for this pic. I didn't bring my tripod.