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Signs of Sisterhood: Inside the Women's March in Chicago

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*full disclosure: Yael is my daughter and I'm very proud of her participation in the march.

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I'm writing a series of interviews with participants at the various marches. If you are interested in telling your story, please contact me at joan@opednews.com.

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Women's March Is The Biggest Protest In US History As An Estimated 2.9 Million March PoliticusUSA

March Factoids:

Largest one-day protest in our history

Larger than 1995 Million Man March: 400,000-1.1 million.

Larger than 1993 LGBT March for equal rights: 800,000-1 million.

Larger than 1982 anti-nuclear march in New York City: an estimated crowd of 1 million.

Larger than 1969 anti-Vietnam war march in Washington: estimated 500,000-600,000.

Larger than 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington: 250,000.

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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