TIME: How the Women's March has united progressives of all stripes.

[pnwmom]

http://time.com/4641575/womens-march-washington-coalition/

The idea started with women on Facebook. On the night of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in November, a grandmother in Hawaii named Teresa Shook went online and called for women to storm the capital on Inauguration weekend.

“At the same time, 5,000 miles away, I was doing the same thing,” explains Bob Bland, a female manufacturing entrepreneur in New York City. “Within an hour we’d found each other, merged our events, and we were off to the races.” By the next morning, thousands of people from across the U.S. had signed up to join what could become the Women’s March on Washington.

Bland quickly realized that in order to transform the march from an angry Facebook group into a progressive coalition, she’d need help. She enlisted veteran organizers Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour as national co-chairs with the aim of wrangling one of the largest Inauguration demonstrations in -history—and making it one that brought together activists of all stripes.

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By the week before the Inauguration, more than 600 marches nationwide and around the world had been planned in solidarity. And while the Women’s March drew support from likely allies such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Global Fund for Women, hundreds of other organizations have also signed on as partners, like the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NAACP, the environmental advocacy group 350.org, the health-care–worker union 1199SEIU and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, among others.

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[Iggo]

1. Kicked and enthusiastically Rec'd.

[JHan]

2. K & R

We have to remember this, even if someone messed up. The march IS Important.

[boston bean]

3. Except those who voted for hillary. She isn't even a foot note of women who broke barriers for these

organizers of this march.

They need to rectify this pronto.

Cause people who supported hillary and spent money and are going to march are gonna feel extremely slighted by this.

I still think people should march, but until the end is written, I'm going to pipe up that they need to add her fucking name to that list of honorees..

[UTUSN]

4. ...

[pnwmom]

7. Every woman I know who's attending was a strong Hillary supporter.

It was a dumb move, but they're not letting this stop them.

[boston bean]

8. No one should or will let it stop them. But I'm dont' think people should shut up about it.

[demmiblue]

5. That was a really thought-provoking article.

Such strength, such fragility... it depends on us as to which way the scale tips.

[ismnotwasm]

6. K&R