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| Six of the demonstration cities, clockwise from upper left: Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Denver, Boston, New York City, Austin |
Images
provided here (approximately
200 images from over
80 locations) of the
Women's March on Washington (apparently
more than one million), with sister marches around the nation and the world, the nation’s and the world’s
largest demonstration ever, remind us why running against Trump was supposed to be a race absolutely impossible for Hillary Clinton to lose.
Clinton surely didn’t run the best campaign she could have. She did not, like Bernie Sanders, seem adequately in touch with the change from the corporatist status quo that people clearly want. Nevertheless it would have absolutely seemed (forget about the
deflection of casting blame on the
“Putin and the Russians”) that, adjusting for everything at the margins, she ran a campaign that would have done at least well enough to defeat Trump.
The size, energy and passion of the demonstrations Saturday seem to make that fact
extra,
extra clear. The crowds and their fervor also inexorably remind us that
exit polls suggest that very likely Clinton may, in fact, actually have
won the electoral vote in addition to winning the popular vote by about 3 million votes. If nothing else, these energetic committed crowds force us to wonder what is so very, very wrong with our system that the public is very clearly
not getting the government it wants.
The demonstrations embody a healthy vigor, but there is news of a
just issued report that says that the United States no longer has what can be claimed to be a full and complete healthy working democracy. . and that was going to be the situation even before Trump was "
elected." Meanwhile what is to be said of Trump's false claims that his inaugural crowds were huge and that he actually won the popular vote? Is that just like the urgency with which he insists that we believe he has "
big hands"? . . .
. . . Or is it a
`best defense is a good offense' effort to have people
not notice
that without voter suppression and purges- or maybe if we just only had trustworthy electronic voting machines- that Trump didn't actually truly win the electoral vote either? It's very clever when Trump forces people to argue back that the election results are what everyone says they are- because maybe they truly
weren't.
Here from Tweets that
National Notice has
retweeted (click through to the Tweets to re-tweet them yourself . . . and often see more collected images) are images
from all around the Unites States of this largest demonstration ever
around the world, and more important for purposes of assessing the health of
our system of elections (vs. our democracy itself), this largest demonstration ever around the United States. (You can also go to the New York Times to
see pictures from many of the other cities on every continent around the world- all listed at the end here.)
Apologies for any randomness about the order in which these images (sometimes videos, some of them really impressive) appear (click
captions for the original Tweets).
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| Six more of the demonstration cities, clockwise from upper left:Montpelier, San Jose, Asheville ,St. Paul, Indianapolis, San Diago |
What cities are included? Here is the list of over
80 locations- not necessarily totally inclusive- There is one semi-ringer depending on what you know about continents, a few times a state stands in for an unidentified small locality: Albuquerque, Anchorage, Arizona, Asheville, Antarctica, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boise San Diego, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chattanooga, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Concord, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, El Paso, Eugene, Fairbanks, Gainesville, Greensboro, Hartford, Hawaii, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Kentucky, Ketchikan, Key West, La Cruces, Lansing, Las Vegas, Lexington, Lincoln, Los Angeles, Lubbock, Madison, Memphis, Miami, Montpelier, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Oklahoma, Omaha, Orlando, Oxford, Park City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland Oregon, Providence, Raleigh, Reno, Richland, Sacramento, Salem, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Fe, Seattle, Sioux City, Spoken, Springfield, St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Petersburg, Syracuse, Trenton, Tucson, Utah, Washington DC.
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| Sweeping video of two avenues in Austin |
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| Incredible roving video view of endless marchers in Los Angeles |
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| Aerial traveling view of three mile long crowd of marchers in Seattle - Buckle your seat belts! |
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| Wow! Roving video of crowd in Denver. Crowd is maybe four or five times bigger than you thing until you've seen this. |
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| Video of long lines at train station in Baltimore. |
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| Video of early arrivals for Baltimore train to march. |
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| Video of Atlanta march and John Lewis speech. |
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| Fast motion video of a zillion marchers in Lincoln Park Washington DC (a mile and a half away) walking two miles to the march because the DC metro was too jammed to handle so many people and walking was faster. |
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| Marchers waiting in line to get on Washington DC Metro station to go to the march. |
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| Video provides sweeping panorama to see huge Indianapolis crowd |
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| Video of huge crowd being addressed in Lansing |
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| Video of Bernie Sander speech before 10,000 in small Vermont town of Montpelier | |
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Want to see more and pictures of the demonstrations here in this country and around the rest of the world?
The New York Times has assembled,
in one article, pictures of the demonstration in all of the following cities (
two Athens).
Dublin, Ireland
Richland, Washington
Wellington, New Zealand
Concord, New Hampshire
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Bangkok
Providence, Rhode Island
Warsaw
Phoenix
Athens, Greece
Omaha, Nebraska
Portland, Maine
Stockholm
Spokane, Washington
Key West, Florida
Winchester, Virginia
Austin, Texas
Salem, Oregon
Mexico City
Sitka, Alaska
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
San Luis Obispo, California
Accra, Ghana
Shreveport, Louisiana
San Jose, Costa Rica
Flagstaff, Arizona
Guam
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Madrid
Midland, Michigan
Colorado Springs
Halifax, Canada
Helsinki, Finland
St. Joseph, Michigan
Athens, Georgia
Memphis, Tennessee
Orlando, Florida
Bagota, Columbia
Lansing, Michigan
Montreal, Canada
Trenton, New Jersey
Berlin, Germany
Charlotte, North Carolina
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Oslo
Indianapolis
Astoria, Oregon
Wilmington, North Carolina
Geneva, Switzerland
Marseille, France
St. Louis
Eugene, Oregon
Knoxville, Tennessee
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Montpelier Vermont
New Orleans
Lisbon
Madison, Wisconsin
Ketchikan, Alaska
Jacksonville, Florida
Rome
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Cape Town
Oklahoma City
Barcelona, Spain
Las Vegas
Antarctica
Cleveland
Savanna, Georgia
Tel Aviv
Hartford, Connecticut
Lincoln Nebraska
Ervin, Iraq
Kahului, Hawaii
Prague
Portland, Oregon
Santiago, Chile
Springfield, Missouri
Florence, Italy
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Dallas, Texas
Sydney, Australia
Park City, Utah
Columbia, South Carolina
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Auckland, New Zealand
Nashville, Tennessee
Honolulu
Toronto, Canada
Brussels
Boise, Idaho
Brasília, Brazil
Fairbanks, Alaska
Amsterdam
Seattle, Washington
Vancouver, Canada
Budapest
Oakland, California
Denver, Colorado
Ajijic, Mexico
Gulfport, Mississippi
Atlanta Georgia
London, England
Macau
Boston, Massachusetts
Tbilisi, Georgia
Melbourne Australia
,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Durban, South Africa
Jackson, Mississippi
Belgrade
San Francisco, California
Nairobi, Kenya
Los Angeles, California
Chicago, Illinois
Paris, France
New York, New York
Washington D.C.
Awesome list, Michael!
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