Women's March takes charge of the dinosaur in the White House.

Today don't read what corporate media has to say about the march. Clearly anyone at the march knows what happened. Not those who mediated it from afar and did not participate. We know what happened and the intersectionality of men and women, POC and white, immigrants and nationals, gay and straight and BTQI. Anyone on the march felt the immense interconnection and a clear understanding of a sexual predator that has bullied his way into the White House with money lining the pockets of the old school, and a dwindling support group of duped voters. A new generation of millennials are on to DT!

Trump tweets, cowardly, that "all the celebrities hurt the march". What he is saying is that he is afraid of outspoken women who are trailblazers, and the march in general. Women like Cher who marched for peace in the 60's, Madonna who has always been up front about her politics against sexual predators and as anti-war activist, Alicia Keyes, a biracial civil rights activist, Gloria Steinem, awesome founding feminist and smart truthsayer. America Ferrera and Janelle Monáe whose outstanding work in streaming and television speaks to a diversified audience. Trump is a loner, who tries to buy women or commodify them as he has done with his wife and is inappropriately doing with his daughter. The message of the march is that women bite back and bite back in a way that addresses his castration complex. Many images of fallopian tubes, and toothed vaginas were up at the march held by women. And women and men, white and POC, straight and LBGTQI, marched side by side. DTs old patriarchal values are being challenged and the old men with him with beliefs held before the Cold War. Creepy McCarthy type men scared of women and of life. Putin has DT under his thump and has something on him from his days in Russia as a businessman and his paid sexual services from women. Trump will try to extort the wealth of this country with his henchmen as Putin did. After yesterday, this is not possible. He is on alert, and scared.

As expected, Trump also tweets, that protest is an American tradition. It is what he doesn't say that will eventually be heard. He is on notice by a march that eclipsed his inauguration.

Yesterday . there was no division in a national and global effort to unite humanity . In the cities where people marched it was impossible to see corporate induced schisms. The manifestation was intersectional which is missing in media coverage. There was unconditional hope that we the people lives and is a greater force than a demagogue. There was A sense of real and righteous power. No doomsday clouds but a leadership accountability mandate. You had to be there to feel this. It wasn't possible to mediate it.

Women's March in Hot Pink San Francisco

A rainy turnout for the women's march in San Francisco and the rotunda is all hot pink in commemoration. Arrived in time to hear Joan Baez - not seen but heard. Very crowded at march estimated at 35-50 thousand that moved at a snail's pace since police cars blocked the route part of the way. But it was definitely worth it! Nice crowd. Favorite chant Hey hey hey ho ho ho Donald Trump has got to go.

#Why I March

#WhyIMarch To be a part of the real world with women worldwide who support change, issues that matter. To defy hypocrisy and affirm life.

As the women's march progresses in Washington.....

Take a break from corporate media. As the women's march progresses in Washington corporate reporters do anything they can to disarm the aims of protestors. The labeling of this movement as the work of "progressives", or " the left " is intentional. To equate the thoughts of protests with block political alliances is invalidation- that is what it is meant to do. It's easier to attack a block of voters than the values that are being expressed. The ridiculous and lame 'sore loser' attack is another disarming tactic. This is not about a protest of voters whose candidate did not win. Those who refuse to hear and recognize the overwhelming protests over the values this administration raises use this argument freely. This includes DT'S constant updates to what was said, or flat denial what was said, which is the hallmark of a slippery businessman. It is designed to confuse and destabilize - to win back support because of uncensored statements what have consequences. Those who say this administration is good for business must also realize that federal defunding of Planned Parenthood, Environmental Protection and National Health Care makes it possible to pave the way for private business tax rebates, and lack of business regulation. DT is the result of this lack of regulation- a rogue businessman who has NO controls and who is moving through his office like a wind machine shouting and disrespecting anyone in his wake that questions him. This is what an unregulated businessman looks like. Such apathy to people by DT supporters has consequences. Some supporters don't even want to reveal they voted for him because they know the consequences of their vote and must admit their selfishness. What is the point of raising skepticism that this march will do nothing because when it's over everyone will just stop their activism. Or asking women about the group of feminists against abortion as a legitimate concern. The media has sickened everyone during this entire campaign and weakens people. Refrain from watching it. Choose your media carefully and request digests from those sources.

The Rise of the Woman = The Rise of the Nation

"Black women, be ready; white women, get ready; red women, stay ready,” "
Phoenix Radio's call from Honey in Lizzie Borden's "Born in Flames".

The Rise of the Woman = The Rise of the Nation

Women's March Jan 21. 2017.

Carrie Fisher: actress, writer, comedian, dog lover, Warrior Princess

Carrie Fisher on her last trip in London, Dec 20. © Carrie Fisher Carrie Fisher on her last trip in London, Dec 20. © Carrie Fisher

December 27, 2016.
Sad news today. Carrie Fisher returns to London in Dec 2016 forty years after she started filming for her part as Princess Leia in Star Wars. On the plane back to Los Angeles Dec 23, she suffered a massive heart attack and died today.Among her merits, Carrie Fisher also was a sought after script consultant on Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) The Wedding Singer (1998) and all Star Wars prequel scripts.
"one of the most sought after doctors in town”—

Fisher wrote on November 30: "Please stop debating about whetherOR not👁aged well. unfortunately it hurts all3 of my feelings.My BODY hasn't aged as well as I have.Blow us👌🏼 © ©Carrie Fisher

Princess Leia is entitled to be a crone!" And she always wished she had a purple light saber in "Star Wars".

"Trump speaking his mind isn't refreshing, it's appalling. Coca Cola is refreshing..." Carrie Fisher

"Thank you guys for helping make my book a best seller..." The Princess Diarist, ©Carrie Fisher November 24

November 20 © Carrie Fisher with Gary

"History keeps repeating itself 😇😊😍" © Carrie Fisher

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Holly Millea's "Maria Schneider: The Long Strange Trip After Last Tango"

Premiere? At last, however, an article worth perusing: Holly Millea's "Maria Schneider: The Long Strange Trip After  Last Tango," in  Premiere's "Women in Hollywood 2000" special issue. For those curious about what happened to that pouty-faced baby Bardot with the Mary Pickford curls, the story of Schneider's slide is all here: hard drugs and obsessive, round-the-globe partying; greasy men pressuring this always-a-lesbian to be their bisexual toy; press and public making jest of her forever after the infamous Land-o'-Lakes-style butt fuck of  Last Tango in Paris (which is screening this Monday, January 10, at the Coolidge Corner).(which is screening this Monday, January 10, at the Coolidge Corner).

"People thought I was the girl in the film," Schneider, now 47, tells her interviewer. "It hurts my feelings. The jokes, the giggles. On the street, in restaurants: `Do you want some butter on your potatoes?' " What she remembers about the  Last Tango shooting is that Brando was blithely unprepared (post-Method?) for his part. "Laziness," Schneider describes it. "So when the close-up was on him, I had the script written all over my body. He was reading me!"shooting is that Brando was blithely unprepared (post-Method?) for his part. "Laziness," Schneider describes it. "So when the close-up was on him, I had the script written all over my body. He was reading me!"

Schneider also gives credence to a long-circulated rumor about filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci's sexuality. "He [Bertolucci] was in love with Marlon. The part was written for a boy! That's why the butter, the sodomization, the gag. . . . And they didn't dare do it with a boy."

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