I listen to friends and colleagues who went to the Women’s Marches Saturday and as the week goes on, I am increasingly filled with gratitude and hope for who all these people were: kind, connected, patient, loving and what they stood for, justice and our democracy of inclusion, health care for all, peace, clean air and more good things. Twelve people from our small New England Presbyterian congregation were there and that makes me proud of us.
Unable to march, I stayed home and watched the throngs of people with excitement and gratitude. This is the United States I know and love.
You know, in addition to the crowds in the streets, there were other people joining in as they could. A friend on the West Coast, who can’t be named because publicity for their event was not permitted, gathered 75 people in her Senior Center and they held their own event. They made signs, they walked through the corridors of their residences and then gathered in the auditorium to talk about their hopes and dreams and commitments for the future. Many of us retired folk were there in the day when rights were won that are now being challenged!
As the insanity of the actions and perspectives of President Trump continue, with his “alternate truths,” I can look back on Saturday and rejoice and look forward in hope knowing that we are not going away. We will overcome!
This new people’s revolution to keep the United States on the path to true freedom belongs to young and old and all those in between. We will stand up for one another.
And, as I am beginning to realize, we had all better begin to brush up on economics. After all, for our President and many of his colleagues, its about money, not human rights.