Scenes from the L.A. March for Science!

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Earth Day in L.A.! The March for Science was GREAT! Enjoy!

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I'm sorry - there are too many good ones! I'll have to add them in a reply (or two)...

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1. Apologies -

1) there are so many more I want to show you,

and

2) I just figured out how to work imgur.com again!

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3. More! Feast thine eyes!

Enjoy!

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[demmiblue]

2. Cool beans. K&R!

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6. Just a few more...

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[demmiblue]

13. Nice!

Ms. Frizzle also joined the marches:

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14. Many rather ingenious fashion statements are coming out of these events!

The inspiration is really terrific!

Like this woman!

Like the leggings on those girls - one celebrating Bill Nye the Science Guy and the other celebrating Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Like those "brain caps" or whatever they're called - the ones that are hand-knit or hand-crocheted. The Nerd version of the pussy hats maybe?

Just ingenious! The signs and posters, the costumes, the t-shirts, the hand-made props (like the paper mache Einstein head and the guy in the dinosaur suit), everything! I saw one woman at the LA march who was wearing what looked like a giant blue-and-green beach ball. It was made of fabric, though, and it was a representation of the world. I didn't have my phone handy at that moment so I missed getting a photo of it. I briefly assumed that maybe I'd spot her again later in the day. No luck, doggone it. It was WAY too crowded. NO idea where she went or how far ahead in the march she might have been from where we were. But that, in and of itself, was a VERY good thing! We WANT these things to be crowded!

[irisblue]

4. Okay that naked trump was gross

Very well done though.😨

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8. Last year there were slightly-larger-than-life-size "statues" of naked trump in various cities

all over the country. I saw photos of people posing with them, and more often than not, pointing to Donald's "shortcomings". This was a large cardboard cut-out, updated with some trendy new wrist and ankle accessories!

[ismnotwasm]

5. K&R

[miyazaki]

7. Love the signs. As far as i'm concerned we may have already entered a modern scientific dark age

as Sagan warned about decades ago, before his death.

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9. Somebody at the March agrees with you!

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10. A few more...

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[lpbk2713]

11. Thanks for the pics.

It's great to see there was a large turnout.

[Duppers]

12. Thank You! These are great!

Sent some out.

I need ideas for this Saturday's Climate March in DC. Ideas, anyone? Anyone here going too?

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15. The slogans and poster art oughta give you some ideas.

Mine was the "NO, Donald!" sign - I found the Der Spiegel magazine cover art (trump as the killer meteor hurtling toward Earth) online and downloaded it, and had it printed, and that's what I used. But there are tons of images!

Here's a good one, for example:

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(MAN, now that she's figured out how to work the updated imgur.com, there's just no dealing with her...)

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16. And here's the one I used:

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I was kinda surprised by how many people I saw at the march who wanted to take a photo of my sign. Some people were shouting for me to hold it up, so they could get a shot of it. Sometimes it was two and three people at a time. I'm guessing some photo of it might turn up somewhere else. A couple of people got into conversations with me about how "NO, Donald" is something he obviously NEVER heard when he was growing up, and how that was such a shame because it's exactly what everyone should have said to him - and frequently, too.

LOTS of people were out with their phones, taking photos of all the protest signs. I think that's become one of the standard accompanying activities at these events. There's always so much to see! SO MUCH creativity and artistry in the way people express their outrage. THOROUGHLY inspiring and uplifting.

I'm considering taking my poster to this weekend's local Climate March, too. It'll fit. It's actually two-sided. The other side says:
DON'T
SILENCE
SCIENCE