Marching against Trump (Jan. 22)
Lucas wrote a short blog post this morning about his experience at the Womxn’s March in Seattle yesterday:
yesterday we went to the march
it was about trump.
it was the biggest march ever!
there were 120,000 peeple!
my favorote sighn was trumps a chump he can kiss my rump .
it was fun.
Lucas came up with the slogan on the sign himself when I asked him, “What do you want to say to Trump?” Krista and I added the second part about respecting people with disabilities — not only has Trump mocked a reporter with disabilities and shown disrespect on other occasions, but far more ominously, his Administration removed all mentions of disabilities from the main sections of WhiteHouse.gov immediately after his swearing in on Friday.
We almost didn’t make it to the march on Saturday. We knew it was going to be huge and were worried about whether it was possible to include Lucas in a way that was safe (allowing an easy escape from the hoards) and not too overwhelming to make him want to go home after 2 minutes. So we decided to arrive early and wait at the first access point 1/2 mile into the march, which ended up working great. We were able to watch tens of thousands of people walk by with beautiful, creative signs (so many people, in fact, that we never got to meet up with many friends), and then jump in for 5 blocks of marching before exiting the march at the light rail stop in the International District. All that took two hours and Lucas was more than ready to go home at that point. But he seemed to enjoy the whole thing and was telling stories about it for the rest of the day.
For us it was triumphant to be part of what people are calling the largest day of protest ever in US history. We know there is much to be done to turn the energy from the hundreds of Women’s Marches around the country into a true resistance movement, and we plan to be involved as much as possible (with Lucas too, whenever he’s up for it.)
There is a lot more to say about what the potential policies of this Trump Administration and what we can do to thwart them. But we’ll save that for another blog post, in particular one area that you’ve heard us talk a lot about already: the health care system, the Affordable Care Act, and Medicaid. This battle is already upon us and we’re going to have to do everything in our power to stop Trump from dismantling a system that has benefited millions of people like Lucas.
The struggle continues.
