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Category: Democracy Adrift
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like | #WomensMarchNY
A year after Trump’s Inauguration, thousands of women found solidarity again in the streets for the Women’s March By Randy Gener NEW YORK | In New York City on the Upper West Side, the women’s march is back. Marchers got ready along Central Park West between 62nd and 82nd and streets. More than 200,000 protesters marched in New York on Saturday, January 20, according to estimates by Mayor Bill De Blasio’s office. Thousands also turned out in Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Rome and hundreds of other cities and towns. Tomorrow, Sunday, January 21, a rally called “Power to the Polls” — organized by the leaders of last year’s Women’s March in Washington — will be held on Sunday in Las Vegas. The Power to the Polls rally aims to launch a national voter registration and mobilization tour. The goal is to register more women to vote, and to elect more women and progressive candidates to public office. As the map shows, hundreds of events are taking place. It’s the year-anniversary of U.s. President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Hundreds of thousands of women and their male supporters turned out on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a nationwide series of protests against Trump …
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Best Protest Signs #TaxDayMarch | “Hey Hey, Ho Ho. Stupid Trump Is Putin’s Ho!”
Tweet this: Use #TaxDayForTrump @SadMonsters #TaxMarch #ShowUsYourTaxes #TrumpTaxesMarch #cluckcluckcluck #NewYorkCity
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Make America Gross Again (NSF U.S.)
A month after his upset win over the venerable Hillary Clinton, it turns out that Time’s alleged Person of the Year is the Greasiest Greasiest Canned Pig Meat since Spam.
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WE’RE WITH HER
Gender is on the ballot today, but not in the way many of us expected. Hillary’s American vision inspires minds and hearts — as election updates roll in.
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DEMOCRACY NOW | I Was Looking at This Convention and Then I Saw the Sky
“If you’re serious about democracy, you can’t afford to stay home just because she might not align with you on every issue. You’ve got to get in the arena with her, because democracy isn’t a spectator sport. America isn’t about ‘yes he will.’ It’s about ‘yes WE can,'” Obama said.
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Zeitgeist DC (Austrian Cultural Forum Washington, Goethe-Institut Washington and
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To track this creative upswing, the Austrian Cultural Forum, Goethe-Institut Washington, Embassy of Switzerland and Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics have launched “Theater of the Voiceless,” an international symposium and festival on documentary theater that runs June 16 to June 19 at various venues in Washington, D.C.
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The government of Prime Minister Victor Ponta passed an emergency order Wednesday putting the cultural institute, known as the ICR, under the control of the Romanian Senate — a decision criticized by Romanian artists and staff members as an attempt to take political control of the institute.