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Will you be attending the Women's March? | The Tylt
Will you be attending the Women's March?
The 2017 Women's March attracted attention across the globe for being the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history, with an estimated 4 million people attending. But a lot has happened in a year. Women's March organizers angered many when they invited Bernie Sanders to open the Women's Convention, and some female activists in red states have created their own groups focused on district organizing instead of protest. Will you be attending the Women's March this year? ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿
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Will you be attending the Women's March?
The 2017 Women's March attracted attention across the globe for being the largest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history with between 3,267,134 and 5,246,670 people attending.
But a lot has happened in the year since the inaugural march. Most notably, Women's March organizers came under fire when they invited Bernie Sanders to open the Women's Convention, and some female activists in red states have broken off and created their own groups focused on district organizing instead of protest.
“We can march and take to the streets and yell about all the stuff we want to change, but unless we’re getting people elected to office who are going to make those changes, we’re not really doing anything,” said Lindsey Kanaly, who organized the women’s march in Oklahoma City and is now a March On board member.
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Many argue the Women's March has been hijacked by organizers whose main focus is not women's rights, but promoting Bernie Sanders and trashing the DNC.
True. To con everyone out of their personal info Linda Sarsour claimed the women's march was to promote women's rights. She & Michael Moore then used it trash the Dem party and plug Bernie. https://t.co/TwXdZ7GvI7 https://t.co/VG1sm9okUx
— Bettie Rose (@BettieRose100) January 14, 2018
#NoThanksWomensMarch
But I've been less excited as I see (what I perceive as) attempts to make the March more ideologically unified around Sanders' coalition. I'd be disappointed if it were run by the type of Clinton supporters who are still hung up on hating Sanders, too.
— Sady Doyle (@sadydoyle) January 17, 2018
But others argue the enthusiasm is still there, and the minor divisions within Women's March are not enough to derail the movement.
Liberal friends: people are trying to create a wedge between liberals saying the Women's March or March for Impeachment on January 20 is a Bernie event. It is not. It's for all liberals. Wear your pink hat, your Hillary or Sanders hoodie and a sign w/ anything you care for.
— Brasilmagic (@Brasilmagic) January 7, 2018
Stop trying to pit women movements against each other. We are unified in getting the Republicans out of office.
— LBOcean111 (@LBOcean111) January 15, 2018
My 86-year-old mother, the daughter of immigrants, just asked me to knit her a #pussyhat She’s planning a one-woman Women’s March at her (very Republican) retirement community. #resist
— CB (@MmeDefargeKnits) January 12, 2018
