Elizabeth Warren riles up crowd at Womens March in Boston

[TomCADem]

Source: Boston Globe

Senator Elizabeth Warren incited a crowd of tens of thousands who gathered on Boston Common Saturday afternoon for the Women’s March.

“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back!” called Warren, as marchers clad in pink hats and waving protest signs screamed their agreement. “We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”

The Boston event is one of more than 670 marches being held nationwide and globally, a day after President Trump formally took office. Speakers in Boston included Warren, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, and Attorney General Maura Healey.

Warren conjured the core values of American democracy: respect for every human being, economic opportunity, and celebration of diversity. She called for raising the minimum wage, protecting unions, fighting climate change, shielding immigrant families from deportation, and making sure gay marriage is not undermined. And she called on supporters to draw motivation from Trump’s inauguration Friday – a moment she said was burned in her mind.

Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/21/warren-conjures-core-values-american-democracy-boston-women-march-speech/g3byHiglM6WEUioYpH33QI/story.html

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Another prominent Democrat lending her support to the march. Way to Go Elizabeth Warren!

[Feeling the Bern]

1. Riles? Riles??? Language, Boston Globe. . .Riles means incites to anger and violence

Nice spin, assholes.

[dionysus]

8. Oh come on. "Riling up the crowd" and its variations is an old, quote common, figure of speech.

I'm glad we're focusing on the important stuff...

[Feeling the Bern]

10. Controlling the language and setting the tone puts you at an advantage

Win the language war and you've got 50% done.

Ehm. . .Crooked Hillary? Worked well. Lyin' Ted? Lil' Marco.

I've been screaming win the language war for years. But I'm glad most are willing to concede that. I am not.

[dionysus]

11. Well, lying and crooked have negative connotations, nobody thinks the shopworn word

"Riled" has anything to do with violence. In todays terms it silply means fired up. Surely you know this... nobody thinks riled up means they're gonna smashbwindows or flip over cars...

[Feeling the Bern]

13. When someone is riled up, they are angry. Or maybe this is just a regional interpretation of the

word.

[mpcamb]

14. I agee with your earlier notion of how languague counts. For headline writers especially.

Think of all the click-bait type headlines that are so empty and misleading.
Those examples of Trump's namecalling of his opponents gave him ink and airtime he never deserved.

[FailureToCommunicate]

2. The crowd was estimated at 125,000. Sen. Ed Markey fired up the crowd listing all

the "firsts" of Massachusettes in our long history of struggles for rights. Many many other powerful speakers as well.

[fountainofyouth]

7. So proud of my home state

First state with a public school, first college, first public park, first public library, first railroad, first subway, first printing press, first church built by free blacks, first mandatory secret ballots, first marriage equality laws, first universal health insurance, first child labor laws, first factory inspection system, and first state to ban payment in company scrip.

Boston has led political change for centuries and will continue to do so!

[Feeling the Bern]

12. I agree, but I so see this as a whitewash of a lot of the bad MA as done

Busing debates, Sacco and Vanzetti, Salem Witch Trials, expelling Anne Hitchinson and Roger Williams. . .referring to RI as a swamp.

Samuel Adams outlawing the same techniques of changing government he used after the Rebellion.

BTW, Wyoming was the first to allow women to vote in 1869.

I'm from Arizona. I'm going to go into how pathetic my state is. Just google "Camp Grant" and "Bisbee Deportation."

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. "this is a whitewash of a lot of the bad MA as done"

Really, whitewash? The Salem Witch Trials? busing debate?



https://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf4.htm

[Feeling the Bern]

16. I guess hanging women on trumped up charges, executing two italians who weren't even in Boston

at the time of the murder. . .and arguing that poor black people don't have the right to be bused to school is okay.

Sorry, I say the same shit about my state.

[Oneironaut]

3. We need Warren in 2020.

[llmart]

17. I agree!

We need her to run for President. We really do. She is an amazing woman.

[burrowowl]

4. Go Elizabeth Warren!

Go Boston Marchers!

[iluvtennis]

5. Yep, way to go Senator Warren. Keep it going, we need more like you. nt

[otohara]

6. Is She Old Guard or New Guard?

does she stay or does she need to go?

[dionysus]

9. Let us ask The Clash...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. Swoon!