Protest #5: It was YUUUUUGE!

[nosrednayduj]

From my mastodon post:

It wasn't as big as the Women's March, but it had that size vibe. I did not get close enough to any speakers to hear them, either at the beginning in the Common or later after we "marched" to Government Center. Really it was an extremely slow stroll as the huge crowd covering half of Boston Common had to squeeze onto the street.

I hooked up with my daughter and a friend of hers, surprisingly we both had cell service, so we were able to locate each other. By the time we got to Government Center, other people were already leaving, having had enough of standing around in the rain. (It did not rain very hard, but enough for people to deploy umbrellas or pull up their hoods.) I was there until my train left so I stuck around reading signs. I had seen a number of them before. My daughter got a kick out of "Porsche: fast. Ferrari: faster. Tesla: Fascist".

Favorite new chant: "We the People! Are Getting Pissed Off!"

The friend had been to a few of the "Tesla Takedown" protests at the Boston Tesla dealership. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing, since I'm not ready to realize the $30,000 loss by dumping our very devalued Tesla and then having to buy a replacement. So we're driving it, with one of those "we didn't know" stickers.

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[lauradi7dw]

I bracketed Old North ringing practice by being on the Common from 10:55 - 11:20 and then at Government Center from about 1:25 until the second Dropkick Murphys song, when I started down to Charles/MGH station. I think it might have been sleeting a little bit before turning to all rain at around 2. Got home, ate a lot of food, and have spent most of the rest of the time scrolling through twitter looking at photos/footage from all over the place. Not Lexington, oddly. Maybe I'm the only lefty Lexingtonian still on twitter. I also saw some other Lexington people downtown. I was interested to see in the twitter pics how many places staged the protests alongside major roadways instead of *in* the road - easy for passing motorists to see and honk along, I guess.

[nosrednayduj]

I arrived at the common around 11:15 and left GC around 1:20. So I missed you almost exactly.

[lauradi7dw]

so between us we were one person for the whole time :-)