Truth by photosynthesis
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Well, I'm going to get a little bit political again today. Yesterday, my wife & I (& a great many of our friends) participated in the Women's March in our area, which was held in Ashland, Oregon. Ashland is s small town with a population of about 20,000 & a huge number of people (what our new president calls "big league") from the relatively small population base in southern Oregon attended (estimates of between 6,000 - 10,000). Newspapers this morning reported that somewhere around two million marched in comparable events around the world.
It was a peaceful day that was a reaction to the distress that many Americans are feeling with the recent election & the direction that the new president wants to take us. I know that some of you have different opinions & of course you are free to express them, but I'm just going to post a few photographic images from the event & will try not to get on too high a soapbox...
Comments (12)
durleybeachbum
What a kindly face this lady has ! We have had huge turn outs here too.
T.Rex
Get the d**ned so-called transsexuals out of women's and girls toilets, dressing rooms, showers, etc...No more rapes, child molestation or murders in women's private areas. Where are the demonstrations about this?
And I DON'T want to have to bail out my brother again (2 years unemployed during Billy The Kid's presidency, and 3 years during Oh-bummer's presidency). What's left of my pension savings? THAT'S why I voted Trump! Furthermore, Hillary has 37 uninvestigated deaths of people close in her surroundings (best known - Vance Foster, 1993). She's promised to put a lot of people out of work "for the environments sake", and laughs at the poor folks, too. A LOT of unemployed and homeless have voted Trump - he's a t least extended them some hope, which Hillary hasn't. After Ob-bummer and all his change, I'm never going to vote Demon-crat again!
photosynthesis
That's quite a rant. Neither I not any anyone I've ever met has ever been sexually harassed by a transsexual, nor have I ever read that there's an epidemic of such incidents in our society. I do know many women who have been harassed or raped by men & that the president of the U.S. has boasted about grabbing women's genitals, walking through beauty contestants dressing rooms while they were changing & lusting after underage girls. But keep obsessing about the fictional scourge of transsexual crimes & maybe that will distract you from thinking about the sexual exploits of the president.
As for your brother & your pension savings, I'm sorry to hear about that. But I sincerely doubt that you can legitimately blame that on either Bush or Obama & the idea that you're pinning your economic hopes on a man who has a long history of stiffing contractors who did work for him doesn't seem very well thought out to me.
Our political differences aside, though, I bear you no ill will & wish you well...
beachsidelegs
Cool picture my friend :)
Faemike55
and of course the new administration will do all they can to deny
Madbat
We even had protests up here in Canukistan, and they protested down in the antarctic for crying out loud. Look, if the Antarctic doesn't like your prez...
anahata.c
Thanks for these again, Claude...I won't go the way I did in your previous pieces, but I really appreciated seeing these here today. You moved me to do an upload of my own, which was not as impassioned, and which avoided personal views (because I'm just so tired right now, and have been there many times before); but at least I gave my bow to the immensity of what we saw yesterday---in your community, in so many others, and around the world. I appreciate your photos, your words, your openness to the hearts of those you don't agree with, even while you firmly disagree, your heart, and of course your eye, now applied to people trying to make a difference. Something illuminating is happening in the world, and I hope it continues---for all of us, for the better. Thanks for these. I really appreciate that you've done this.
weesel
Well folks, the opposition did not have much to offer. Time for a change.
Of course the last time I acted on that outlook we had Jimmy Carter. Sigh...
photosynthesis
Nothing to offer but intelligence, experience & common human decency. A shame that the absence of those qualities no longer disqualifies a person from the presidency of this country...
kgb224
I really hope Trump will really bring change as he did promise to the American people. I do not trust him though. God bless.
auntietk
What a lovely portrait! This is beautifully done. We had a relatively small demonstration down here, which I attended with a friend.
sossy
Special portrait and natural smile, excellent work! Yesterday I saw on tv a docomentation about the ku klux clan who voted for trump also, and I had to cry because I do not understand how someone can think like this group! Trump is Hitler for them 😥
blinkings
Good luck with that Claude.................but god bless you for trying IMHO. Andrew.
Meisiekind
Firstly - a stunning photo of one of millions of determined men and women that marched on Saturday. As I am not American, I sometimes feel that I have no right to an opinion. However, as we all know, when a pigeon poops on the Lincoln Memorial, it can have a ripple effect throughout the world. The US decisions are just that powerful - especially when you sit on a spit of land on the southern tip of Africa. Being a South African and having lived atrocious leadership for a long time, I want to say that I feel fear and uneasiness with many of my US friends about the potential harm that this man can do to their country and with that, potentially the world. I do however hope that he will change his mind on some very controversial matters and that he will be able to earn the respect of at least some people who appose him across the globe. Maybe if his advisers can get him off Twitter, it will help!