Stay Woke: 15 Women and Men on Why They Marched in the Women’s March

“Don’t think that you have done all you can by marching in one March.”

 Khadija Husain: So I, along with 50 other concerned Americans, left our families to go to the Women’s March on Washington with Muslim Womens Alliance. For many of us the March on Saturday was not about wearing a tongue in cheek hat or a selfie session with national landmarks. We marched for the rights of Indigenous First People, for #BlackLivesMatter, against anti-Muslim rhetoric and justice for all marginalized people.

Planned smear campaigns by the Alt-right against Muslim leader Linda Sarsour. Stay woke. The Dakota pipeline just got authorized. Stay woke. There will be a travel ban put on Muslim refugees and others from Muslim majority nations. Stay woke. The Senate minority leader who is the head of the Democrats has so far confirmed every nomination put forth by the opposition. Stay woke. Elizabeth Warren voted to confirm Dr. Ben Carson for HUD, something he has no background in. Stay woke. The HUD nomination Ben earned by donating his remaining campaign funds through a super-PAC. Stay Woke. Journalists are being prosecuted. Stay woke. EPA can no longer talk to reporters or post scientific news on social media or in reports. Stay woke. Fascist governing is here. Stay woke.

Don’t think that you have done all you can by marching in one March. Keep going. Even those you think have our best interests at the end of the day are transactional politicians, aka you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

Stay woke. … #IMarchWithLinda

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