Marching in the streets, again

[redbird]

I just got back from a rally and march for trans* and queer liberation and in support of immigrants, starting at Boston City Hall. This definitely felt more left-wing than the other protests I've been to since the election, as well as being smaller. (The speakers were all community organizers, not elected officials, and there were people carrying both black and red flags as well as the rainbow flag and lots of signs.)

We (cattitude, adrian_turtle, and I) left before the end of the march, rather than going to the community meeting/further organizing part, because we were worn out and my feet were cold, but we were there for most of it, including a lot of the march.

On the one hand, I can't believe we still have to protest this shit. (That's a sign I've seen a couple of times this year; I don't know whether it was literally the same sign both times.) On the other hand, I know how to do this, even though most of my experience protesting has been in warmer weather. One of our chants today was "we're here, we're queer, we're fabulous, don't mess with us" which is an update I like (it's a long time since I heard the original "we're here, we're queer, get used to it"). Cattitude commented that he's always wanted to be a fabulous beast.)

I had thought I would be doing this alone (the event wasn't finalized until yesterday afternoon), but when I told Cattitude last night that I was doing this, he said "I'm coming with you," and when I mentioned it to Adrian this morning, she asked for details and then told me "I can't be there until 12:35" because she was teaching this morning.

Comments

[anne]

I'm sorry I wasn't there. I had unbreakable plans from before the shitshow started. But even so--I didn't know about it! How did you find out? I don't think I'm on the right mailing lists (and I'm never, ever on Facebook, which probably doesn't help.)

[redbird]

The SURJ Boston email list. They were one of the organizers.

The email announcement for this pointed to a Facebook page, which had more information than the email, but I wouldn't have found it that way either, since I'm effectively never on Facebook either.

I was handed a flyer at this rally for an email list to find out about progressive events in the area:
act-ma@act-ma.org.

The flyer says that to subscribe, "simply send a message to act-ma-subscribe@act-ma.org". I haven't done this yet.

[anne]

OK, thanks!

[redbird]

Cattitude says he saw the rally mentioned on the reddit Boston group this morning (before we headed out).

[anne]

Thank you! I just did. fyi the confirmation (to which you have to reply) ended up in my spam folder.

[catherineldf]

Go you! Marching is good, participating is good, resistance is good.

[amaebi]

Yay! Als, thank you.

[bibliofile]

Excellent! Glad you all were able to go.

Definitely like the new chant. Also, yay updated chant; we're a long time away from Stonewall (i.e., there's been progress, and it's about bloody time).