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Why the Women’s March may be the start of a serious social movement
... In other words, the Women’s March movement has something that Black Lives Matter and Occupy haven’t been able to harness (although the LGBT movement did): crosscutting mainstream appeal to the moderate and the wealthy. People who didn’t feel threatened didn’t mobilize for Black Lives Matter or Occupy, leaving those movements isolated in society at large; but those moderate and wealthy people feel threatened now, ready to go into the streets for principles they hold dear ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rious-social-movement/?utm_term=.bd9eefb7714c
Women from Iowa City gather near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21 for the Women’s March on Washington. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
By Emily Kalah Gade January 30 at 8:00 AM
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Why the Women’s March may be the start of a serious social movement
... In other words, the Women’s March movement has something that Black Lives Matter and Occupy haven’t been able to harness (although the LGBT movement did): crosscutting mainstream appeal to the moderate and the wealthy. People who didn’t feel threatened didn’t mobilize for Black Lives Matter or Occupy, leaving those movements isolated in society at large; but those moderate and wealthy people feel threatened now, ready to go into the streets for principles they hold dear ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rious-social-movement/?utm_term=.bd9eefb7714c
Women from Iowa City gather near the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21 for the Women’s March on Washington. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
By Emily Kalah Gade January 30 at 8:00 AM
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