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GOP says nobody cares about Trump's tax returns. There are over 135 marches planned to prove them wr
Kaivan Shroff? @KaivanShroff 3h3 hours ago
GOP says nobody cares about Trump's tax returns. There are over 135 marches planned to prove them wrong. #TaxMarch
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Six Questions About The Tax March And Eight About The Trump Chickens
by Rachel Sadon in News on Apr 13, 2017 3:00 pm
[font size=1]The Trump chicken was hanging out in Dupont Circle this afternoon. (Photo by Erik Stegman)[/font]
Like most of the massive rallies organized in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Saturday's Tax March is the result of spontaneous social media organizing. Unlike the others, this one has a giant, inflatable chicken as a mascot.
Law professor Jennifer Taub tweeted a call in January for a march demanding that Trump #showusyourtaxes. Her missive and a subsequent tweet by comedian Frank Lesser wound up going viral. “I traffic in ideas that people usually ignore,” Taub told the Guardian. “I invest years in research, writing, and crafting a book, meticulously searching and referencing. I’ve testified before Congress. And nothing happens.” Not so this time around.
Seeing support for the idea coalesce, an executive committee got to planning. There are now 180 events, largely around the country with a few abroad, slated to happen on Saturday.
Still, it easily could have gotten lost in the slew of marches on D.C. planned this spring. There's one for at least the next four weeks in a row, and they have rather more urgent seeming messages: climate change! science! immigrants! But Tax Marchers have some attention-getting help in the form of a gilded, blow-up chicken. ... The symbolism of cartoonish, inflated fowl is just too rich, the chicken puns too numerous, the gold hair too perfect. It's like catnip for Washingtonians, who have been snapping shots of the mascot hanging out around town.
by Rachel Sadon in News on Apr 13, 2017 3:00 pm
[font size=1]The Trump chicken was hanging out in Dupont Circle this afternoon. (Photo by Erik Stegman)[/font]
Like most of the massive rallies organized in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Saturday's Tax March is the result of spontaneous social media organizing. Unlike the others, this one has a giant, inflatable chicken as a mascot.
Law professor Jennifer Taub tweeted a call in January for a march demanding that Trump #showusyourtaxes. Her missive and a subsequent tweet by comedian Frank Lesser wound up going viral. “I traffic in ideas that people usually ignore,” Taub told the Guardian. “I invest years in research, writing, and crafting a book, meticulously searching and referencing. I’ve testified before Congress. And nothing happens.” Not so this time around.
Seeing support for the idea coalesce, an executive committee got to planning. There are now 180 events, largely around the country with a few abroad, slated to happen on Saturday.
Still, it easily could have gotten lost in the slew of marches on D.C. planned this spring. There's one for at least the next four weeks in a row, and they have rather more urgent seeming messages: climate change! science! immigrants! But Tax Marchers have some attention-getting help in the form of a gilded, blow-up chicken. ... The symbolism of cartoonish, inflated fowl is just too rich, the chicken puns too numerous, the gold hair too perfect. It's like catnip for Washingtonians, who have been snapping shots of the mascot hanging out around town.
