Got back uptown a while ago after going to NYC Women's March
Serious
and Glorious! Sooo many people!!!
AsI have attended some of the biggest marches in NYC over the decades...
the Climate Change March
the Anti-Nucear Weapons March (tied into the General Assembly of The UN opening Fall session) back in the 80's
and the major Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium marches
The Anti-Nuke Weapons March was near 1,000,000 protesters!
Today the crowd was stuck for a long time and finally people started breaking off the waiting groups and marched up different avenues, and across Mid-town. There werepeople everywhere!
We (me and my sis) after about 1 1/2 hrs of waiting gave up the idea of marching from where we were on 2nd Ave & 50 St were the marchers were not moving at all to finally slowly going southward
to the designated staging area on 47th between 1st & 2nd Ave to pass by and then officially march across and up from there.
We instead along with some others headed west on 51St toward 5th Ave. We could see major groups of people southward of us in the distance. We finally got to 5th Ave and stayed e for 1 hour plus as people marched by. As we headed there could hear the roar of the crowd from 1 plus Ave away (equivalent of about 1/4 of a mile)!
So many great home made signs! Good chants!
We joined the march for a little bit (her knees were bothering her) but at the point were you could see trumps tower just past St Patrick's Cathedral.
Felt very good, and thrilled as we heard other people report or she got info from Pants Suite Nation photos, vids and attendance counts from the rest of aaUSA's major cities, ad well as from around the world, littler marches in small
cities, big towns all around d the USA!
Yay, people!
Obviously people have be in it for the long haul... But this
was very moving!
We're thinking around 300,000 marchers.