Tag: Women's March

"Let's keep the heat on the NRA ... don't let the NRA make this about mental health. This is about guns." -- Christopher Biernacki, a mental-health professional at Berkshire Medical Center, a veteran and former police officer

There were roughly more than 120,000 marchers and, at one point, the rally stretched more than 20 blocks along Central Park West.

Now a veteran of two Women's Marches, Caroline Alexander describes the differences between last year's and this year's.

On the one-year anniversary of the iconic movement, Indivisible Pittsfield has organized another sister event to this year's march – what it calls a "March into Action Resource Fair and Community Forum" at the Colonial Theatre on South Street.

"I can't begin to tell you. I get up in the morning and I groan about all the idiocy." -- Joyce Sheffey of Great Barrington

“Since the election in November, it’s become obvious that we are at the beginning of a very difficult journey in our country.” --- Robin Zeamer

There was much more joy than anger, much more hope and resolve than despair and resentment being expressed, or so it felt to me.

On Inauguration Day, I headed for Washington, D.C., my hometown, with three other Berkshire women… our hostess — who is the wife of a long-time career foreign-service officer — offered “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

The Berkshires goes to the protest: a taste of the festivities. Our Edgecast video crew with Edgecast Copter was on hand for the New York City Women's March on January 21, 2017 which drew an estimated 400,00 to 500,000 participants, among them quite a few from the Berkshires.

For me it's not a protest against the legitimacy of the election but against a compulsive liar of a president who feels morally odious.