Linda Sarsour

Women's March Isn't Officially Honoring Hillary Clinton

... to a request for comment from Motto. Clinton has a complicated feminist legacy. Many younger women and women of color opted to support Bernie Sanders over the former Secretary of State during the Democratic primary, arguing that Sanders was a better representative for the issues that were most important to them. Clinton, they felt, represented the establishment they were fighting to deconstruct. But Clay said that the decision was particularly perplexing because the March was spurred by President Donald Trump’s victory over Clinton in an election punctuated with gender issues. “It seemed like a deliberate effort to distance themselves from her,” Clay said, adding that she can’t speak as to why March organizers didn’t include her. “She’s a historic figure, and she’s been a historic figure before she was Secretary of State. She’s someone who’s inspired people.”. The exclusion of Clinton isn’t the first disagreement about the direction of the protest. The March has seen divisions on issues of race , whether anti-abortion advocates should be able to attend and whether the March should advocate to protect the rights of sex workers. For her part, ...

Is There A Place At The Women’s March For Women Who Are Politically Opposed To Abortion

... is published. You’re all set. Got it. Janaye Ingram is the local point person for logistics for the Women’s March on Washington. She is shown Dec. 22, 2016, at Third Street and Independence Avenue SW (next to the National Museum of the American Indian), where the march is to begin on Jan. 21, 2017. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post). By Perry Stein By Perry Stein January 18 Follow perrystein. When the video leaked of President-elect Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women’s genitals without their permission, Brandi Swindell was horrified. That video offended her sense of how she believed women should be treated, and caused her to question her support for Trump. But on Nov. 8 Swindell, a 40-year-old antiabortion advocate from Idaho, cast her ballot for Trump anyway. This weekend, she’ll be participating in Idaho’s sister march of the Women’s March on Washington. The Washington event is a high-profile demonstration in front of the U. S. Capitol the day after the inauguration, with women from all over the country rebuking Trump’s ...

Meet The Activists Who Are Planning One Of The Largest Demonstrations In American History

... Mallory said. The Women’s March on Washington borrows its name from Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic March on Washington — and it comes with the blessing of his daughter, Bernice King — building on generations of social justice movements while correcting for some of their shortcomings. Historical movements have often failed to account for the intersection of race, gender, and class. Many early-20 th-century suffragettes allied with white supremacists and anti-abolitionists, pitting their own voting rights against those of black men and women in the decades after the Civil War. If they couldn’t have the vote, reasoned prominent suffragettes like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, then neither should black men. Black women, on the other hand, disenfranchised because of both race and gender, were ...

How The Women’s March Came Into Being

... of the Gathering for Justice, a criminal-justice reform group; and Linda Sarsour, who recently led a successful campaign to close New York City public schools on two Muslim holidays. Shook helped plan a march in Hawaii, but does not have a leadership role on the national level. Not only did these women bring organizing chops to a rapidly growing movement, they also brought diversity to a campaign that was already being criticized for lacking it. Settling on what to call the march took a few days. “Million Pussy March” perpetuated a slur used by Trump; another early name, “Million Woman March," seemed too reminiscent of a 1997 protest by African American women of the same name. The organizers eventually adopted the title “Women’s March on Washington,” invoking Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights march of 1963. They even got the blessing of King's daughter Bernice. The march is shaping up to be one of the largest inauguration demonstrations in history, ...

Women's March Chair Admits Event Is Really About Defending Planned Parenthood, Promoting Abortion

... people” to participate. At one point in the interview, Lui inquired further about the headcount. “You’ve been telling me about the numbers, how they’ve been surging recently, is this because of, within in the last two weeks, discussion of Planned Parenthood, the discussion of defunding Planned Parenthood,” he said, “Is that something that’s energizing the numbers here. She agreed, “That definitely is part of it, I mean, the repealing of the Affordable Care Act.”. SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately. To follow-up, Lui asked her “what’s the first thing you want President Trump at that time or the Senate or… the House to do for all of these marchers?” He added, “Because you have a sense of what the pulse is from the marchers.”. Sarsour began listing the march’s most important issues. “First of all, hands off the Affordable Care Act. We need our health insurance,” she began. “Hands off Planned Parenthood and our reproductive rights. Hands off Muslims. Hands off the undocumented. Those are really our top messaging lines. Hands off our Native American sisters and brothers.”. “You will see a plethora of ...

Longtime Inauguration Announcer Voices Women’s March

... attend Women's March around the world after Trump's inauguration. “At first I said it sounded like they should have a female since it’s a women march,” Brotman told the Washington Post. “And they said that they have all the women they want and at this particular scene I would add to it.”. Trump’s team announced earlier this month it would not be using Brotman at the Friday inauguration, breaking a 60-year tradition. He voiced the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 — and every President-elect since then invited him back. Trump is the first president since Eisenhowernot to use Brotman. (Andrew Harnik/AP). “I was crushed,” Brotman, 89, told the Daily News after he learned Trump would not allow him to voice the Friday inauguration. Why I'm marching against Donald Trump. Instead, Trump invited a campaign volunteer to serve as the voice of the event. “I’m the only guy in the world who has ever done the announcing of a presidential inaugural parade for the past 60 years,” Brotman said. ...

Here's What You Missed At Jezebel's Inauguration Panel

... is not based in hate, it’s based on information and understanding about what it takes to run a government,” Rawlings-Blake added. Mc Ghee had some overarching thoughts on the messaging of this particular campaign. “We saw a candidate use identity politics—and I’m talking about Donald Trump—who managed to make the dog whistles about who gets to really be an American, who really gets to belong, who really deserves, turn those dog whistles into a bullhorn. And we can no longer be silent about how important it is to finally confront the way the Right Wing uses race and gender to divide us in order to keep the spoils for the billionaires and the wealthy and the powerful.”. On a more immediate level, Sarsour deftly fielded several questions about the Women’s March, and predicted that it will be “the largest mass mobilization that any administration has ever seen on their first day. and ...

How The Women's March Has United Progressives Of All Stripes

... even look like. Internal conflicts over race and class may plague the new progressive movement just as much as they’ve hobbled the Democratic Party. “Those linked arms are going to have some sharp elbows,” Jones says. Indeed, the test for the anti-Trump movement will be whether these historically distinct groups of progressives will continue to cooperate over time. “Just because you have a rushing river of energy and interest doesn’t mean you can turn it into a hydro-electric dam to build real power,” says Jones. For now at least, there’s a consensus among progressives that any response to Trump must present a unified front. “Every single aspect of this is being worked on with a much broader set of allies than we’ve worked with in the past,” says May Boeve, executive director of the environmental group __link__. “[Trump’s] politics are about division, so our best tool to confront it is unity.”. Some leaders say that’s needed now more than ever—that the progressive coalition that gathered behind Barack Obama was more illusion than real ...