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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2017
After mass turnout, can marches
turn into real political impact?
A forceful
showing that
raised hopes
By NICHOLAS
RICCARDI
Associated Press
Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal
Thousands rally during the Salem Women’s March beginning at the Oregon State Capitol
in Salem on Saturday.
Women across Pacific Northwest
march for women, other causes
Large crowds
turn out in
Seattle, Portland
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Nancy Dav-
enport marched on Washing-
ton, D.C., 28 years ago to stand
up for women’s equality. The
72-year-old was back at it Sat-
urday, this time joining thou-
sands in the other Washing-
ton who crammed the streets
of Seattle to send a message to
President Donald Trump about
women’s rights and other
causes.
“We thought we were done
and we’re not,” said the Port
Angeles woman, who carried
a sign that read in part: “Don’t
make us come back in 28 years
to do it again.”
Across the Pacific North-
west, women’s marches and
rallies in cities from Seattle to
Spokane, as well as Portland
and Boise, drew tens of thou-
sands of people.
Demonstrators wore pink
“pussyhats” and waved signs
proclaiming: “You belong,”
‘’Love Trumps hate,” or “My
uterus will fight you.”
Seattle police and city offi-
cials did not provide a crowd
estimate, but march organizers
said in late afternoon that more
than 150,000 people showed
up. At one point, demonstra-
tors had packed the entire 3.6
mile route.
Some said they were pro-
testing Trump and his policies,
while others wanted to pro-
mote unity or to fight racism,
sexism and hate.
“What I’m seeing here is
overwhelming, the solidar-
ity and love,” said Amanda
Guzman, who pushed her
18-month-old son in a stroller.
“All across the world, we’re
marching him, against his
hate.”
She said it’s so easy to lis-
ten to Trump and see only bad,
but the thousands who turned
out for the march gave her
hope. “It’s all reassuring that
there’s still good, and we will
fight this.”
Fathia Absie, a Muslim
American writer and film-
maker from Seattle, said she
marched to support women’s
rights as well as all other rights.
“We have to come together.
What makes this country beau-
tiful and unique, unlike any-
where else in the world, is
that we’re so diverse,” she
said. “Our differences make us
beautiful.”
Brittany Vieira, 31, who
lives in Gresham, took her
8-month-old son to the march
in downtown Portland. It’s an
opportunity to unite and con-
nect with others, she said.
“This whole election has
completely turned my world
upside down,” she said. “I feel
like it’s important to use our
voices against people who are
trying to silence us.”
The Portland Fire Bureau
said the crowds in Portland
numbered more than 70,000,
The Oregonian reported.
Leigh Douglass, 45, left
the march in downtown Boise
feeling inspired and that “this
is just the beginning.” The
mood was welcoming and cel-
ebratory, and she said she cried
as she listened to stories from
powerful speakers.
Douglass said she won’t
remain silent and plans to
speak up when she feels things
aren’t right.
“I’m marching to be seen
and heard,” she added.
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DENVER — Deb Szeman,
a self-described “homebody,”
had never participated in a
demonstration before hopping
on an overnight bus from her
home in Charlotte, North Car-
olina, to attend the women’s
march on Washington, D.C.
She returned on another bus
that pulled in at 4 a.m. Sunday,
full of people buzzing about
what might come next and
quipping that they would see
each other at the next march.
“I wouldn’t have spent 18
hours in Washington, D.C.,
and taken the bus for seven
hours both ways if I didn’t
believe there was going to be
a part two, and three and four
and five,” said Szeman, 25,
who works at a nonprofit and
joined the National Organiza-
tion for Women after Trump
won the White House.
“I feel like there’s been an
awakening,” she said.
More than a million people
turned out Saturday to nation-
wide demonstrations oppos-
ing President Donald Trump’s
agenda, a forceful showing that
raised liberals’ hopes after the
election denied them control
of all branches of federal gov-
ernment. Now, the question is
whether that energy can be sus-
tained and turned into political
impact.
From marches against the
Iraq War in 2003 to Occupy
Wall Street, several big demon-
strations have not directly trans-
lated into real-world results.
In Wisconsin, for example,
tens of thousands stormed the
state Capitol in 2011 to pro-
test Gov. Scott Walker’s moves
to weaken unions. Walker has
since been re-elected.
Trump also won the state
in November as Republicans
increased their hold on the
statehouse, part of the GOP’s
domination of state-level elec-
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Ten additional actions
Organizers of Satur-
day’s marches are promising
10 additional actions to take
during the first 100 days of
Trump’s presidency. So far, the
first and only is for support-
ers to write to their senators or
representatives.
Groups scrambled so fast
to arrange the massive demon-
strations in only a few weeks
that they have had limited time
to determine how to chan-
nel the energy into additional
action. But, they promise, it’s
coming.
“The left has really woken
up and said, ‘My gosh,
we’ve been fighting the sym-
bolic fight, but we haven’t
been fighting the institutional
fight,’” said Yong Jung-Cho
of the activist group All of Us,
which organized protests at
the inauguration as well as the
women’s march.
There’s still value in sym-
bolism. Saturday’s immense
crowds ruffled the new pres-
ident as his press secretary
falsely contended that Trump
had broken a record on inau-
guration attendance. Jamie
Henn of the climate action
group 350.org said that reac-
tion is a hint on how to build
the movement.
“Size matters to this guy,”
Henn said. “It’s like dealing
with a schoolyard bully and
some of us need to go back to
middle school and revisit what
that’s like” as they think up
new tactics.
Saudi Garcia, a 24-year-
old anthropology student at
New York University, is a
veteran of Black Lives Mat-
ter protests in New York. She
rode to Washington with long-
time, largely minority activ-
ists to block checkpoints to the
inauguration.
She was heartened to
find herself in a very differ-
ent crowd Saturday, which
she described as largely white
women, many of whom
brought young children to the
women’s march. Garcia hopes
those women stay involved in
fighting Trump.
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Tea party example
Stan A. Veuger of the
American Enterprise Insti-
tute, a conservative think tank,
co-authored a study of how
the nationwide demonstrations
that launched the tea party
movement led to increased
conservative political clout.
Higher attendance at indi-
vidual demonstrations cor-
related with more conserva-
tive voting by congressional
members and a greater share of
Republican votes in the 2010
election, when the GOP won
back the House, he said.
But, Veuger cautioned,
it wasn’t automatic. The tea
party activists also went home
and volunteered in local orga-
nizations that helped change
the electoral results.
“Political protests can have
an effect,” he said. “But there’s
nothing guaranteed.”
One positive sign for the
left, he added, was that the
women’s marches seemed
to draw an older crowd not
deeply rooted in demonstrating
— people who are more likely
to volunteer, donate and vote.
Beth Andre is one of
them. Before the election, the
29-year-old who works in cri-
sis services at a college had
bought a ticket from her home
in Austin, Texas, to Washing-
ton to watch what she thought
would be Hillary Clinton’s
inauguration.
After Trump won, she can-
celed the trip. She was heart-
broken again when she real-
ized that meant she could not
attend the women’s march. But
a friend invited her to a meet-
ing to plan a women’s march in
Austin instead.
Andre has never been
involved in a protest move-
ment before. Still excited after
Saturday’s
demonstration,
she’s planning to attend lob-
bying workshops by her local
Democratic Party and is think-
ing of running for office.
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