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Women's March On Washington Could Conflict With Trump Inauguration

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A march on Washington to reject the divisive, insulting, and demonizing rhetoric of the presidential campaign could conflict with President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural events, though the National Park Service has not yet ruled out allowing the Gathering for Justice event to include the Lincoln Memorial.

Scheduled for January 21, the day after the new president is sworn in, the gathering also known as the Women's March on Washington has attracted at least 138,000 people who plan to attend, according to the group's Facebook page.

The rhetoric of the past election cycle has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us--women, immigrants of all statuses, those with diverse religious faiths particularly Muslim, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native and Indigenous people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, the economically impoverished and survivors of sexual assault. We are confronted with the question of how to move forward in the face of national and international concern and fear.

In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.

On Friday the Park Service issued a statement acknowledging that the march's leaders had sought permits to use various public sites in Washington D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial.

"The Lincoln Memorial has already been requested by the Presidential Inaugural Committee and therefore may not be available for additional permitted events on January 21," Park Service spokesman Mike Litterest said in a prepared statement. "The Lincoln Memorial is among the eight sites permitted to the committee approximately one year ago to stage the inaugural celebration.

"When there is a conflict of time and location for events on the National Mall, precedence is established by the order in which the permit application was received. Providing the space required for the Presidential Inauguration, while also accommodating the free speech rights of protesters and supporters, is a longstanding responsibility for the National Park Service," he added. "The National Park Service has not denied the Gathering for Justice’s permit request and we continue to work with them through this permitting process to identify locations within the district where they can safely gather and exercise their First Amendment rights."

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Good people of all kinds should plan to attend. 

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4690469-155/bagley-cartoon-environmental-p...

Being targeted in Tweeter tweets will soon be the new Badge of Honor in America.


With all due respect to America's fairer sex, 54 percent of college-educated women voted for Donald Trump. Why not march on them and let the rest of us enjoy the inauguration?

Certainly, if this march were being held by the 54 percent, the other 46 percent wouldn't attend. Graduates for the most part from the Ivy League and those fine, upstanding women's colleges (which men are no longer allowed to have), we may wish the 46 percent well, but remind them they still lost.


Your arguments are sort of lyrically circuituous, atascdero. I just have to ask at the end, however, are asserting that those who lose an election lose their right to assemble and speak and protest?


Someone really needs to check the numbers they are citing.


The numbers, Mr. Dalton? Here's one article on the subject from the New York Times. . .

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/20/magazine/donald-trumps-ame...

But yes, I stand corrected on one total: It was apparently 45 percent of college-educated white women. The 54 percent I quoted earlier was college-educated white men. Nor did I distinguished that voting block by race.

https://news.vice.com/story/white-people-voted-to-elect-donald-trump

As for anyone's right to assemble and protest, of course they have that right. I just wonder what these women protesters would be saying if Trump had lost--and asked his followers to march on Washington.


Interesting times we live in. Women and LBGT groups marching with and in support of Muslims and vice versa? If it weren't so sad the hypocrisy would be humorous.


So, are therre any groups you're not trying to alientate, Wild Places?


Yes, groups (and people) who are honest about their convictions.


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