Comments on: Reubens & the Women’s March in Cincinnati

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:36:09 +0000

In reply to T.O.. Grateful for your comments, and glad you are a believer in the cause :)

By: T.O.

T.O. — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:35:11 +0000

This is really good. So insightful, thoughtful, and smart. Very impressive.

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:32:31 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. Amazing show of force in LA. One of my many friends who marched there just came back from a letter-writing group targeting Congress yesterday and has organized support for the ACLU. As they say at USC, fight on!

By: 15norriseps

15norriseps — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 16:58:38 +0000

In reply to Heidi Glenn. Sage words, my dear one! Ready to march again!

By: Heidi Glenn

Heidi Glenn — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:14:19 +0000

I loved reading about all our experiences in Cin City. It was the best I have felt since the election. Especially once back at the hotel, I was shocked at the world protests. I really had no idea that this was on an international level. It gave me some hope.

In the meantime, it’s important to remember that actions speak louder than words as Susie so apptly put it. During this time of facism in this country, it is essential that we all do our part to ensure that the middle class does not become extinct. The threat of the rich getter richer and the middle class getting poorer is overwhelming. And in that, we need to come together in our communities to ensure that the poor still get access to birth control and all the benefits that Planned Parenthood provides. We can do this by donating funds and more importantly, our time. Everything that gets taken away can be replaced by giving back in actions, to our communities. We cannot allow this Administration to defeat us and we will not.

So with that in mind, it’s nice to know that there are people far and away that also support us in these endeavors. The outpouring of support was so encouraging on January 21, 2017.
Now it is time to get busy writing your Senators and Congressmen, making sure that we vote out a lot of these people in two more years and thinking about who can beat Trump in the next election.

Keep calm and March on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 05:46:22 +0000

That Saturday march seemed to have been immeasurably magical everywhere it happened. I will never forget the way it was in L.A. and loved hearing about your Cincinnati experience. I think we are all figuring out how to move ahead on its energy and drive–and finding our ways.

By: Susie

Susie — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:33:46 +0000

Andy, the Vietnam war & Watergate are apt analogies. I especially liked how many young kids were part of the protest. Past is prologue, but let’s hope for evolution of morality and peace. Failing that, revolution?

By: Andy Globas

Andy Globas — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 02:20:20 +0000

What strange times we live in now, those of us us confronting both middle age and the Trump revolution. This essay contrasts the tumult and confusion of our present moment with sharp reflections of the author’s youth and coming of age in Cincinnati and in prep school . Maybe all of us look back and think times were simpler way back when, in the days of Johnny Bench and Pete Rose. And maybe they were, although the Vietnam war, the political assassinations and the Watergate scandal that defined our childhoods make me less than sure. In any case, the constancy of baseball and Reuben sandwiches gives us a rock to stand on. This too shall pass.

A wonderful and evocative essay. And a great recipe for a great sandwich. Thank you.