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www.womensmarch.com www.womensmarch.com A wise woman in my life has asked numerous times about the protests and Women's March on Washington , "What is the central message?" I think the principal cause is preserving civil rights in all their diversity. And it hit me this morning, this is the new leadership for 2018 and the whole spectrum of causes that will shape the platform. I think the only way to survive the new regime is to peacefully plan the next one.  # WomensMarchOnWashington

The Blue Barn Theater named by Slate magazine one of the eight Best Things America Built in 2016 Slate has named the Blue Barn Theater,  which inaugurated its own performance space last year  in Omaha, Nebraska, as one of the eight Best Things America Built in 2016.  My little sister,  Michelle Zacharia  has been involved with the Blue Barn in publicity design, set design, props, costuming, and as an actress, since the organization's infancy. The theater had functioned out of a rented space in the artsy Old Market District of Omaha since the late 1980s, and have performed in far-flung locations like an abandoned train station. Congratulations, Blue Barn, Mishy, and  Susan Clement , Artistic Director! And thank you, Slate, for being a publication with a conscience!

Article in Salon: 5 ways to resist Trump now

Women’s March gets spot for post-inauguration rally : A women's march that is expecting more than 100,000 attendees the day after the Jan. 20 inauguration has secured a location for its demonstration. More than a dozen other groups planning protests are still waiting on permits.

Trump Cabinet Confirmations Blockade The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker in The Atlantic

Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Resisting the Trump Agenda. #WeWillWin

At Least 50 Trump Electors Were Illegitimately Seated as Electoral College Members @alternet : More evidence surfaces as calls mount to challenge congressional ratification of the Electoral College vote.

I ’d like to mention that the  Women's March on Washington    is scheduled and hopefully, will draw over a million women to a peaceful protest in Washington, D.C. on January 21. God watch over them, please.  An article, " Women's March on Washington: a guide to the post-inaugural social justice event",  appeared in  the Guardian .

A centrist, rational, peaceful voice seeks to maintain and expand civil rights, human rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Trying to keep our institutions from dissolving, the right from engulfing us in racism... Trying to keep the earth together.

J ust here, wandering an open space in my consciousness, hoping for something interesting to set in, waiting for a metaphor to ripen. Well, no one is going to care whether I write another poem or not, and what a strange topic for the beginning of the year.  This is usually an equinoxal kind of musing. I'm obsessed with the feeling of being in the last three weeks or so of our Democracy. Flawed though it may be, overflowing with corrupt figures, yet no president in our USA past ever before flaunted an admiration for dictators. I don't think any past president treated the media with so much contempt or has shown such a lust to dismantle our institutions. Bunches of people have called the new regime a kleptocracy, a plutocracy, an idiocracy. I disagree. It's one smart dude playing dumb a-la-W telling you what he plans to do but it sounds so outrageous that you don't take it seriously. To me, he's headed toward autocracy. His surrogates tell us not