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Women's March on Washington

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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 .

What about the Freedom Concert?

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I first learned about the Freedom Concert concept on the Facebook page of advertising guru Valerie Graves, whose newly published memoir, " Pressure Makes Diamonds " has nearly sold out on Amazon (I ordered my copy from its publisher, Akashic Books).  Ms. Graves, in turn, mentioned that she learned it from another person. A day or two later, Berkeley and formerly Harvard professor as well as political commentator  Robert Reich , who s erved in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, and was Secretary of Labor under President Clinton,  blew the idea up on Facebook. Here it is:    The Trump people are upset that the only musicians willing to perform at the Trump inauguration are Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.   Someone just suggested to me a televised "freedom concert" to air at the same time as the inauguration -- with huge celebrities like BeyoncĂ© and Jay Z, Madonna, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Bruce Spri...