Second Women’s March
Yesterday was the anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, which I celebrated here in San Diego with tens of thousands of women and men at the second Women’s March. I hope it will become an annual event, at least for the next couple of years. For the first hour, we listened to an excellent line-up of diverse speakers. They reminded us of some of the destruction to human rights and democracy that the current President inflicted this past year; they informed us about the actions we took in response; and they encouraged us to work with each other to bring about positive change as we move into the future. Before we began to march, the organizers notified us that our numbers were higher than last year, which surprised me.
A year ago I was still shocked and horrified. I was afraid. And I was very, very angry. Apparently, even more people have joined the ranks of the outraged after living through Trump’s and the Republican-dominated government’s first year in office. Many of the signs today reflected the marchers’ fury and disgust, and they were blunt and funny and absolutely true. And yet, because this march was focused on the midterm elections in the fall, I wished there were more signs to rally us together, to unite under. There’s so much we’re fighting against these days, but what we’re fighting for needs sharpening before November. “Make America sane again” is a great slogan, but it won’t get out the vote. We need something forward-looking and inclusive and memorable. The best I could come up with was “Support everyone’s future.” I hope the messages I saw at the march today will coalesce into something we can all vote for this year.
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