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Apr. 27th, 2004 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rktsunday was truly beautiful.
despite what the media says, i'd say the numbers were definitely over a million. at the very least, MUCH closer to a million than "500,00-800,000".
the antis were far outnumbered. which made me happy.
i'm not kidding. i don't get REALLY HAPPY easily. i LOVED being there. there were times when i was ready to cry, the whole experience was something special.
i'd like to throw in that, despite what the media, including the bbc, say, it wasn't just about abortion. abortion was just the focal factor. it was and is about owning my own body, to do with it how i want, when i want. period. to partner with whom i want. to alter it how i want. to dress how i want, without fear, without blame. IT'S MY BODY, DAMNIT. don't mess with me.
and, now if only my body were to catch on that i've completely walked away from the so-called pro-life, etc. stance, i'd be in heaven. the way it is, i swear my body seems to have an agenda all its own. the weather was marvellous, and i still exhausted myself. (WTF??? i tried drinking my water.) if anyone had been on the lookout for me, i spent the first, probably 2+ hours of the rally/march half blind (i'm blaming the "non-irritating" sun screen). i could keep whining, but why? i'm sooooooooo happy i was able to go. i may have spent today recovering, but i can't wait to do it again. though, i'd rather not have to face the need.
i'm especially glad now that i tagged along with the glbt center since they have a great statement on the connection between reproductive and glbt rights that sort of connects with what i was saying above. (although,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kornrowchic's bus experience sounds like it would have been boatloads of fun.)
and, while looking around for info with the antiviolence project i also discovered i can start this week to get certified as a ny state rape crisis counselor.
i'm hoping that the trainng will assist in quelling my yen for going back to school. more likely, it will just be a motvational tease.
despite what the media says, i'd say the numbers were definitely over a million. at the very least, MUCH closer to a million than "500,00-800,000".
the antis were far outnumbered. which made me happy.
i'm not kidding. i don't get REALLY HAPPY easily. i LOVED being there. there were times when i was ready to cry, the whole experience was something special.
i'd like to throw in that, despite what the media, including the bbc, say, it wasn't just about abortion. abortion was just the focal factor. it was and is about owning my own body, to do with it how i want, when i want. period. to partner with whom i want. to alter it how i want. to dress how i want, without fear, without blame. IT'S MY BODY, DAMNIT. don't mess with me.
and, now if only my body were to catch on that i've completely walked away from the so-called pro-life, etc. stance, i'd be in heaven. the way it is, i swear my body seems to have an agenda all its own. the weather was marvellous, and i still exhausted myself. (WTF??? i tried drinking my water.) if anyone had been on the lookout for me, i spent the first, probably 2+ hours of the rally/march half blind (i'm blaming the "non-irritating" sun screen). i could keep whining, but why? i'm sooooooooo happy i was able to go. i may have spent today recovering, but i can't wait to do it again. though, i'd rather not have to face the need.
i'm especially glad now that i tagged along with the glbt center since they have a great statement on the connection between reproductive and glbt rights that sort of connects with what i was saying above. (although,
kornrowchic's bus experience sounds like it would have been boatloads of fun.)and, while looking around for info with the antiviolence project i also discovered i can start this week to get certified as a ny state rape crisis counselor.
i'm hoping that the trainng will assist in quelling my yen for going back to school. more likely, it will just be a motvational tease.
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Date: 2004-04-26 09:46 pm (UTC)I'm going to have to call my mom (who went with my brother & my nieces) and see what she thought of it.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:31 pm (UTC)Once you have saaid the words "going back to school", you are doomed.
i've been saying it for awhile now. it keeps getting more and more probable. t think i need to make my mind up about what i want to be when i grow up, first.
i hope your family enjoyed themselves at the march. it was great...
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Date: 2004-04-26 09:52 pm (UTC)I envy that you were able to go to DC, and I say bravo for standing up in what you believe in. I'm happy to hear it was a good experience, and that you said there were more people there than the media claimed.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:11 pm (UTC)Fox isnt conservative. They are crazy-right-wing-radical-puritan-conservative.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:38 pm (UTC)i hate how bill is credited by everyone as being this big liberal savior. phooey.
i will admit to fully disagreeing with hillary's statement that this march was necessary since ""We didn't have to march for 12 long years because we had a government that respected the rights of women," there is just so much wrong with that statement, it's not even funny.
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Date: 2004-04-26 10:33 pm (UTC)i added another entry. . .
it was a Great experience. despite what the boy keeps trying to say, the media was definitely wrong on the numbers.
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Date: 2004-04-27 06:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-27 03:26 pm (UTC)yea
Date: 2004-04-27 07:29 am (UTC)p.s.- ::reggae music in the background:: we're jammin'. goldjammin'. we wanna jam it with you. lol!
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Date: 2004-04-27 01:27 pm (UTC)that's beautiful.
though, since i was sleeping on the ride down, i'm not so sure i would have fully appreciated the beauty.