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The gap between these two positions, one that may have closed in the last 24 hours, was apparent last weekend. On Friday, as in many other places around the world, there was a counter inaugural march in Mexico City, followed by a ‘Woman’s March’ on Saturday, and yet another on ...

Oklahoma progressives are a tough lot. We're used to losing. Still we keep up the fight. When we gather for rallies or marches we see a lot of familiar faces in the small crowds that assemble. When, last week, I said my farewells to a colleague who would also be ...

Many march participants were clearly newcomers to the politics of protest. Even the march’s designated marshals seemed embarrassed as they implored the crowd to join them in platitudinous chants like “No hate, no fear/everyone is welcome here.” At a few points throughout the march, a group of presumably more seasoned ...

Sure the march was more white and middle class than I would have wished. Marches on Washington usually are. Because it takes money and time to get there and back and most people don’t have enough of either one. One thing that felt different this time was that there were ...

I sat down with the others and batted around ideas for what to write on my sign. They were already hard at work, one drawing an enormous cat, another penciling out “Black Women Deserve a Seat at the Table” in fancy cursive. I was so torn that I ended up ...

We looked over a mosaic of heads, 60,000 of them, on the wide lawn facing the provincial parliament, Queen’s Park. What a difference compared to yesterday’s inaugural tristesse (“inauguration,” from “augur,” v.: to portend a good or bad outcome). The women, men, children, and dogs (many dogs, ours included) behaved ...

Yet it was not only pussy hats and signs declaring that “Girls Just Want to Have Fun(Damental Human Rights).” Unlike the smaller sister march in the East Liberty neighborhood, organizers did not bill this march as explicitly committed to intersectionality -- the notion that the fight against gender and sexual ...

My little group of marchers, five women and one pink-hatted man, represented modern America’s geographic and political re-sorting in microcosm. We all hailed from the red-state heartland --Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Idaho -- and had migrated to the coasts for college and graduate school, then to the evergreen blue bubble of ...

The celebratory atmosphere, reminiscent of the open-air party that accompanied the city's 1996 Olympics, went a long way towards soothing our anxiety about Trump's presidency. The size of the protest vastly exceeded expectations. As my cousin (mom of a Georgia Tech student) remarked, the only time such a large crowd ...

Those of us on the political left were excited to see so many other likeminded people given that we were in South Carolina, one of the most conservative states in the country. I wouldn’t have imagined such a gathering when, during the presidential primaries, Trump opened his campaign headquarters on ...

Luckily Buffalo has also experienced a resurgence of political activism in recent years. This has ranged from Black Lives Matter to umbrella groups like the Partnership for the Public Good, the Western New York Peace Center, and People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH), activists which have done invaluable work coordinating ...