Signs seen in the massive March on Raleigh, NC yesterday

[mnhtnbb]

I wasn't able to go (my husband had planned to, but was sick)

These photos are lifted from a friend on fb who did attend. You really get a feel for the diversity of the crowd.

Lots of issues were represented from women's rights to health care (they asked health professionals to wear white coats) to BLM to refugees to social justice to...

Apparently, it was the most well attended march on Raleigh ever held.



































And the story from the local Raleigh paper about the march.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article132195554.html

[wishstar]

1. Heartwarming- thanks so much for posting

[malaise]

2. Magnificent

Thank you

Off to the greatest page for thee

[Cha]

3. Wow.. those are brilliant.. Mahalo, mnhtnbb

[mnhtnbb]

4. Our 4th District Congressional Representative, David Price, was seen in the crowd.

https://price.house.gov/#dialog

He's only one of three Democratic Congressman left in the NC delegation thanks to the Republican gerrymandering.

Prior to the gerrymandering, the 13 member delegation was usually split pretty evenly--either 7 to 6 Dems or 7 to 6 Repubs.
After the gerrymandering, it's now 10 Repubs and 3 Dems. Yet, if you look at the total votes--Dems to Repubs--across the state
in Congressional elections, the ratio from the last election should be 7 Repubs to 6 Dems.

[raccoon]

5. NC protesters, you rock! nt

[gademocrat7]

6. Absolutely inspiring

Raleigh rocks!

[barbtries]

7. my son, his girlfriend and I

were all there are. i cannot figure out how to get a picture from my phone to DU so they're mostly on my fb and still in my phone. i haven't found a news source yet that provided a number. but we were toward the back of the march and i did not see the people in these pictures.

if there's a simple way to get a picture from a phone to DU, tell me about it please and i will share. Otherwise I have to upload, put in photobucket, and post that way. only way i know how.

and there were many great signs.

[mnhtnbb]

10. You used to be able to copy the URL from a photo posted on fb

but that no longer works.

I don't use a camera phone--just cameras--so I always have to upload to photobucket first.

You might ask the question in the photography group to see if anyone has an easy answer http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1036


(I've tried copying the URL from a facebook photo and pasting here, but it doesn't work.)

[barbtries]

23. thanks.

i don't know an easy way either. i let my grandson take the good camera as i wasn't using it so much anyway the phone is so convenient.

[madokie]

16. Send the photos from your phone

to your email addy, then save to computer. Open one of several photo hosting web sites, (tinypic.com,) and upload the photo. copy the proper URL and paste that in the body of your message and viola, there is the photo for all of us to see.

Peace



In my contacts I have my email address to make things easier

[barbtries]

22. that's what i do when i do

i use photobucket. but it's really time consuming!
i'm thinking maybe i can upload directly to my computer and skip the emailing part, but then i will still have to upload to the computer and then to photobucket.

so the cool thing about the phone is i can send them straight to fb. i can now also save them to the computer from fb and then upload to photobucket.

but there's no straight to DU. that's what i want!

[joshdawg]

8. I found the Lady Liberty and Lady Justice sign

to be especially effective. Kudos to all who marched. Brava! to all who attended.

[certainot]

9. i see duke and tarheels references - they can also protest right at school

because those schools are two of 4 that support 16 limbaugh stations

North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2

NC and duke support 11!!!! limbaugh stations that yelled like 1200 or so others about liberals/dems/hillary letting penises invade the bathroom with 'your' wives and daughters

[llmart]

11. Wow! Just wow!

So many great signs. I love "I'll trade trump for refugees". LOL

I also like the Duke med school grads - 60% women sign. It reminded me that now there are more women in med school, law school etc. than men, and from my experience of working at a university and a law school, they are usually better students than the men.

Thank you for the pics.

[panader0]

12. All great but I like this one best:

[MissB]

13. Same here. Brilliant on so many levels.

Serious props to the artist of the sign.

[KittyWampus]

14. That painting of the young man reaching up in handcuffs for the pencil is AMAZING!

What a great way to get your artwork and your message seen/heard.

[thecrow]

28. YES!

I loved that one too!

[smirkymonkey]

15. So good to see!

Restores my faith in humanity when things like this happen.

[DURHAM D]

17. One of the signs mentioned in the N & O article -

IKEA Has Better Cabinets

I am so glad North Carolina is on the march and much thanks to Rev. Barber for all he has done.

[mnhtnbb]

18. The Reverend Dr. Wm Barber II has a book out about the Moral Mondays movement

The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement Hardcover – January 12, 2016
by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (Author), Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (Author)


https://www.amazon.com/Third-Reconstruction-Mondays-Politics-Movement/dp/0807083607

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.

Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to voting access and an extreme makeover of state government. These protests—the largest state government–focused civil disobedience campaign in American history—came to be known as Moral Mondays and have since blossomed in states as diverse as Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York.

[Stinky The Clown]

19. Heartwarming and encouraging. Were there any arrests?

I ask about the arrests because the Jan 21 march in DC was AT LEAST a half million people and NOT ONE SINGLE ARREST. I see this as important as is the fact that there are marches. Women are leading these efforts.

Women, this is YOUR time.

[mnhtnbb]

20. I have not seen any reports of arrests.

Some of the Moral Monday folks do get arrested when they protest at the Legislature...but it's for civil disobedience, not violence of any kind.

[mnhtnbb]

21. Some great photos of crowd size at the Twitter account for NC NAACP

Link to tweet

https://twitter.com/ncnaacp

[mnhtnbb]

24. Kickin for people to see the signs if they didn't get a chance earlier today.

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[Phentex]

26. So good!

love that first one.

Thanks for sharing these!

[mnhtnbb]

27. The first one is my favorite, too.