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Women’s March on Washington organizers made their first large-scale attempt Wednesday to build on the momentum of their January march, calling on women across the country to skip work and take to the streets to resist the policies of the new presidential administration. The result was a smaller crowd with a harder-edged concept, which contrasted…
Welcome back to the show. 0:02 Hey, how was your weekend? 0:03 Me, I didn’t do much– just went for a walk with a few friends. 0:07 [CHEERING] 0:08 Woo! 0:10 The president spent his Saturday in Langley 0:13 with his portable pep squad, attempting 0:15 to mend both his rift with the CIA and…
What began as a Facebook plea from a grandmother in Hawaii eventually spawned an international movement. According to USA Today, an estimated 500,000 protesters descended upon D.C. to attend the march — this turnout was larger than the anticipated 231,000 that had RSVPed on the event’s Facebook page. The march may have had a bigger…
On inauguration day in DC, the souvenir business was slow. I asked a vendor wearing a huge Bob Marley hoodie while hawking Trump hats and scarves and keychains whether he might not have had better luck selling Obama gear, and he shrugged. “It’s too late.” But he also said: “Tomorrow.” Tomorrow! You lie and I…
Image via Getty. The Women’s March was, by most reported measures, a success. Though it remains to be seen what the organization’s subsequent “10 Actions/ 100 Days” campaign will yield, it succeeded most at what I’m guessing the vast majority of participants assumed the march was about: making it clear to Donald Trump that he…
With just a few weeks to go before the inauguration, President Donald J. Trump unceremoniously fired legendary announcer Charles Brotman by email. Never mind that Brotman had announced every inaugural parade since Eisenhower; never mind that the cold, abrupt dismissal left him shattered—as it turns out, Brotman found something better to do this weekend. Seems…
The planned Women’s March may be gearing up to be one of the biggest inauguration weekend protests ever, but there’s clearly still some education that needs to happen before January 21. Washington Post’s magazine Express had a bit of a snafu on Thursday, when their cover story about the march showed a ring of what…