The Waves: Was the Women’s March Successful?

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer Christina Cauterucci looks back to the first Women’s March that took place on Jan. 21, 2017. She talks to New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister about what the march accomplished for progressive organizing and the role protests can have going forward. Then she sits down with Angela Peoples, an activist and organizer who went to the march with a sign saying “White Women Voted for Trump”—and went viral. In Slate Plus, Christina and Angela continue their conversation and talk about the connection between the Women’s March and the Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Popping to store or shop online. It was the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration.
0:36.1	The day was gray, but warm for January. I walked out my door and the first person I saw
0:43.3	was carrying a protest sign.
0:50.3	I hadn't even reached the end of my block. We were both heading south toward the National Mall
0:55.7	and at every intersection, the sidewalks got more crowded.
1:00.3	Groups of friends, parents pushing strollers, union members and matching t-shirts,
1:05.9	women in those pink hats. I knew it was all planned, but it felt spontaneous.
1:12.2	Like the only people in the streets for miles around were pouring out of their houses and
1:17.2	hotels to join the crowd. For different reasons maybe, but with one united purpose.
1:25.4	I'd seen a zillion protests in DC before, but none like this. The whole city was alive with
1:40.0	demonstrators. They were everywhere. The day before belonged to Donald Trump, but this day was theirs.
1:47.6	These hundreds of thousands of people had converged on DC for the women's march.
2:00.2	The whole thing had started the day after Trump's shocking election as an expression of rage in
2:05.6	search of an outlet. It was a Facebook event created not by a professional organizer or advocacy
2:12.0	group, but by a woman in Hawaii who just wanted somewhere to go and people to be with to share
2:18.0	her anger and pain. Within a few days, three more experienced activists stepped in to actually
2:28.3	plan the march and to make sure it wasn't exclusively focused on white women and their concerns.
2:34.4	What happened next made the women's march what it was, a fertile ground for an inward facing
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