Getting myself ready for Hobby Lobby protest in the D.C. area
Hope to hell I don't get lost. I have absolutely NO sense of direction. LOL!
Will take some photos today and hopefully post them tonight.
Ready to give 'em hell!! 
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Looking forward to the photos !!!!
Stay safe !!!!!
P.S. I feel your pain. I have zero sense of direction.
Thank you for doing this!
Reporting in after a short nap. I am old and decrepit, y'know. 
I think the protest went quite well, though I would like to have seen more participants. We had about 20 folks show up plus some others who just happened across the protest and decided to join in. The leader of the group led the chants and had plenty of signs ready for everyone.
No trouble and only one encounter with police, who asked us to move farther away from the HL entrance (yes, it does appear HL at least is granted a buffer zone.) Quite a few folks drove by honking their horns or pumping their fists in support. The one truly negative reaction came from a young couple in a sports car, who stopped only long enough to roll down the window so the woman inside could scream, "abortion is murder!". Well, um... yes, they probably had no idea what we were protesting but screaming about abortion always seems to be the standard reply from that crowd, who probably would have responded the same way had they encountered a Girl Scout cookie sale. Anyway, after that outburst they hit the gas and sped away.
Spread the word about democratic underground and am confident some folks from the protest will check us out, including the core group from defendwomensrights.org (Please check out their site and support them!) There was at least one other DUer there and I wish I had gotten her onscreen handle. She even fashioned her own sign. Hopefully she'll check in here.
The demographics of the protest was quite varied, though I would like to have seen more college-age women. On my end of the line there were some fine women who were real protest vets, along with some young men who may have been college folk. Damn, they were such good fellows, adorable and very attentive to my particular situation, as I spent most of the protest from the seat of my mobile walker. The heat got to me rather quickly, so one of the young men offered to take some photos for me as my hands were shaking pretty badly by then. Hope to download those pics and get them up for y'all tomorrow. We also had a trio of lovely women from the deaf community who were among the first to arrive. I was also pleased to see solid support from the LGBT community!
This protest is only the beginning and I hope the movement will only grow. Please follow defendwomensrights.org for updates and if you can, rise up and join in!
That's the short report for now. Any questions? 
Edited to add: No, I didn't get lost on my way getting there, but did take a couple of wrong turns on the way back. You know you really are directionally challenged when you get lost even with a GPS!
That was excellent. I would say you all had success today!
Heh...I'll bet your GPS says "recalculating" a lot!
Thank you so much!
Now, rest well...
I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures, whenever you get to them.
As promised by theHandpuppet, here are some photos taken at the Hobby Lobby protest in Laurel, MD.
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