Celebrities expected to participate in Women's March on Washington

[viudanegra]

The @womensmarch on Washington revealed a list of celebrities expected to march alongside over 100,000 women: https://t.co/QuSrg9HZ19
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 9, 2017

• Over 100,000 women are expected to participate in the Women's March on Washington the day after President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
• America Ferrera will serve as

Comments

[ms_mmelissa]

I know Jessica Chastain said she was going as well.

I saw a thing going around and apparently Canadians are organizing buses from Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa to go too, which is... not the greatest idea imo. But I wish all the participants the best of luck and I hope for a really big showing.

[viudanegra]

Let me add Jessica.

[michiru]

speaking as a canadian who lives in the U.S., dear god, stay at home. you have your own problems to manage and solve.

[beaucadeau]

seriously, not that you don't show solidarity and support, but fuck we have so many problems up here that we need to mobilise and hold our PM accountable to his promises

[modern_toilet]

i dunno man, if i wasn't living in bay fuck nowhere newfoundland i would feel like i should go
people act like "why do you care you're canadian" but our country doesn't exist in a vacuum, the us is our #1 ally and trading partner, we share an undefended border, and now some of our politicians are starting to use trump-like rhetoric. it all matters.

[beaucadeau]

I'm not disputing that what happens in America doesn't matter, of course it matters. I think it is possible to recognise that Canadian and American politics are intertwined but also know that as Canadians our nation has a lot of issues and we can have a more direct impact on what goes on up here than there.

At least that's what I tell myself when I can't sleep at night because an actual fucking nightmare and scion of evil is going to be POTUS

[adam_pally]

You really think Trudeau is on the same level as Trump tho?

[beaucadeau]

Nowhere did I say Trudeau was like Trump, but I do believe that we need to hold him accountable to his promises with regards to the environment, indigenous communities/nations, and electoral reform, to name some, especially in the wake of Cons using Tr*mp-esque rhetoric

[colorfilm]

it seriously bothers me how people think when we say "we have our own problems", they're like, "but not as bad as trump". fucking obviously, but it's doesn't mean we should shut up. trudeau has sucked ass lately, lol at him being amongst the first to congratulate tr*mp i mean what the fuck, of course i'm gonna drag his fucking ass. and here and quebec, we keep getting stories of small white supremacist groups getting more popular.

[beaucadeau]

SERIOUSLY, we are allowing our problems to fester instead of addressing them. Even in the GTA there were fucking neo-nazi signs going up and yes, they were taken down and called hate speech but the fact that they even went up is a cause for serious concern.

And don't even get me started on the Cons or how the Liberals are pretty much setting us up for a conservative backswing due to their mismanaged government. I mean, I didn't vote for him (THE NDP IS AN OPTION MY FELLOW CANADIANS) so I'm not ~personally affronted by him being an ass but still, Canada has the potential to be better and we need to fight for it

[colorfilm]

exactlyyy, i didn't vote for him either, i was NDP as well (and yes mulcair had his own issues, i miss layton, he would have made an amazing PM idc about ppl's opinions) and lol someone once told me ~but let us be happy that he (trudeau) won, we voted for him~ and i just...dskhksadhsjkhk

[okwerq]

what did you expect him to do? give the most powerful man in the world the cold shoulder?

[colorfilm]

yes

[okwerq]

are you kidding? the worst thing for Canadians would be to start a spat with an American administration. just look at what he's doing to mexico's economy, and he's not even the president yet

as much as i hate him too, canada just needs to lay low and just quietly work on our own shit

[colorfilm]

my response was facetious, because nowhere in my comment did i mention wanting trudeau to fucking ignore him. i am simply sick of politicians normalising trump's bigotry was my point.

and do you think that canada will treat méxico better? or latin américa even? nah. i'm sick of people praising us just because we have a "cute PM.

[okwerq]

i agree that politicians within the US shouldn't normalize him, but for politicians in government positions of power outside the US, calling out his bigotry could jeopardize the jobs or even lives of millions of people

and yes? i think canada-mexico relations are a tonne better than US-mexico relations right now... trump is literally doing his best to shut down their auto sector at the moment, whereas Canada and Mexico are happy trade partners, Canada just lifted visa requirements for Mexican citizens travelling here, etc