“The womensmarch.com website does not indicate that a march is scheduled for Asheville. How is this possible in the most progressive city in Western North Carolina?”
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Letter: ‘Immocrats’ and abortion rights
“The immigrant vote is a major threat to U.S. abortion rights and has already destroyed the March for Choice (replacing it with the March for Women’s Lives or Women’s March).”
Letter: Respect King’s legacy and boycott UNCA speaker
“Speak up against class, racial, gender and religious hatred and those who promote it. Join the protesters outside.”
SignsUp Asheville aims to pair activists with artists
Part protest-sign-making party, part community art event, SignsUp Asheville held its first pop-up party in the gym of Odyssey School on Saturday, April 15. The gathering of artists and activists provided everything someone attending a political rally, demonstration or march could need to make make a point — artfully.
Letter writer: We need women’s voices and leadership
“Thank you, women of Asheville and of the world, for standing up to the men who make the rest of us look bad. We need you, we need your voices and we need your leadership.”
Letter writer: Taking a crash course in democracy
“Seems the only way to rise above the grief and dread I wake to every day is to be active, to be learning how to make change, not just talking about it.”
Letter writer: Kids inspired at Women’s March
“I was especially inspired by the homemade signs of children, which were beautiful and showed great intelligence..”
Letter writer: Marchers expect more balance from government
“Protest is fundamental to America. It got your attention, didn’t it? Even if it’s only to know that women are expecting some more balance from their government.”
Letter writer: Marching is part of mature women’s movement toward justice
“Have we come a long way, baby? Mature women rightly honor their foremothers in the women’s movement by continuing to march, organize, write and act.”
Letter writer: Women’s March was full of meaning
“I saw very few of the ‘profanity-laden’ signs that Carl highlighted. The signs were one of the best parts of the day. The vast majority were humorous or meaningful, or both, and to me embodied the human desire to create that goes all the way back.”
Letter writer: Women’s marches spoke to important issues
“Too, these ‘liberated’ women are not safe from the indignity of ‘pussy-grabbing’ by men who feel entitled to give themselves some real live sexy fun at women’s expense. The marchers wearing pussy hats — ‘vagina headgear,’ Dr. Mumpower calls them — were referring to Donald Trump’s boasting on that subject.”
Letter writer: Women’s marches lacked mature focus
“While marching ladies attempt to inspire with profanity-laced signage and knitted pink vagina headgear, more mature men and women are focusing on building a future that finds our nation fed, sheltered, employed, secure and free.”
Inside the Women’s March (and what’s next)
“By the time we arrive back at First C at 8 that evening, we’ve made a vow: We will commit ourselves to continuing the work of the march — which for us is pretty straightforward: to care for our country and our democracy by caring for the human beings who inhabit it.”