Here’s to all of the marchers around the world who gave us so much hope this last Saturday at women’s marches around the world.
In Monteverde, we also broke records–nearly 250 marchers of many nationalities, ages, and genders popped out of the cloud forest to sing a Zulu song put to Spanish and English, share beautiful bilingual signs, and march down our dusty dirt roads in honor of feminism, the environment, immigrant rights, truth, and human rights in general.
There was some discussion in English forums in Costa Rica about why expats or non-U.S. citizens felt the need to march. I wrote an op-ed piece in the Tico Times explaining why I marched and how living abroad has taught me that what happens in the White House often impacts all of us around the world.
January 23, 2017 at 9:38 pm
Amazing! Thanks for sharing
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January 24, 2017 at 8:32 am
Your Monteverde Sister March is an inspiration, indeed! I was fortunate to be able to attend the DC Women’s March – hitching a ride with the Bread & Puppet van that went down – full to the brim with masks, B&P emblazened white “ponchos,” various costumes, flags, poles, and even two big tubas – which were played in the band by two young women from Montreal who called themselves the “Fallopian Tubas!” It was a great event of solidarity and diversity – but I think your march was a wonderful microcosm of the diversity represented at the larger marches. Great photos, by the way. Thanks so much for sharing this.
PS: Like your march, men were welcomed participants in the DC march. One sign (held by a man) that I particularly liked said, “I’m with her!” and had arrows pointing every which way out from the statement. Reeve and Kit also went to the DC march – but we never saw each other there. They made a sign that featured one of Nash’s favorite sentiments: There’s only one team, and we’re all on it. A similar sentiment was chanted by those of us who were in the B&P cloth boat – a huge circle of cloth – painted with typical B&P figures, etc. blue on white background – that we were inside of – holding up around us and in the middle of which marched someone holding up a huge mast on a bamboo pole of a beautiful blue tree on white background (tree of life??). Our chant was, “We’re all in the same boat, keep the boat afloat!”
Sending love, Mariel
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Warmer than Canada wrote:
> katiequirkauthor posted: “Here’s to all of the marchers around the world > who gave us so much hope this last Saturday at women’s marches around the > world. In Monteverde, we also broke records–nearly 250 marchers of many > nationalities, ages, and genders popped out of the cloud for” >
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January 24, 2017 at 11:31 am
Oh, how I would love to see pictures of you and your boat afloat, Mariel! Sounds delightful. I had heard you went to D.C. with Bread and Puppet, so I had no doubt you’d be spreading not only a good, but creative and likely large, message on Saturday. Well done!
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