Photo by John French Segall.
A #WeStandUnited anti-Trump rally at Columbus Circle Thursday night stretched six blocks up Central Park West. Politicians and entertainers including Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Cher, Mark Ruffalo, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Robert DeNiro rallied the crowd ahead of Friday’s inauguration.
Protestors said the pledge of allegiance and sang songs, including This Land is Your Land.
Here are some photos and clips:
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People at 15 Central Park West watch the march from their windows. Photo by Scott Matthews.
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Photo by Matt Paiton. “Outside Trump hotel eerily empty and boarded up, almost like a hurricane is about to hit.”
Awesome !!!!! Keep it up nyc !!!!
Given they were getting paid $50 an hour to march, I woulda expected more people.
You know this how?
False Rumor Sammy. That’s how your fascist “hero” won! False News & Lies. Check back with the REAL Americans in a few months and let us know how you’re doing without a job, health insurance, the arts & listening to his hourly pronouncements & tweets. FYI: I had friends at this rally and NOT one was paid!
Keep telling yourself that…you guys are out get over it!
I think it was more than that!
Ha,ha…I wish!
Citations? No? Then go away
Oh, really? So when can I expect my check?
Right on! And we’ll keep it up and going strong. There has to be an end to this attempt that threatens all that’s good and right for the Country. It’s taken over 240 years of struggle to get here, and we cannot allow it to be destroyed in the next four years.
what nonsense, but what else would we expect from the liberal left. You people really don’t get that a lot of us hated BO, but then again only your voice matters.
Ivanka Trump is stealing from the woman who fought for the rights that she stepped into by being born with a golden spoon in her mouth.
WOW!! How wonderful! This is only the beginning. Lets get to the streets….and get rid of this hideous man.
impressive–dare we hope?
Delusional losers.
I don’t think “delusional” is the word you’re looking for.
People exercising their first amendment rights are not losers.
I recall attending rallies with my family in the 70’s at the UN protesting the “Zionism equals racism” resolution. Were we delusional? Or losers? Or fighting for what we believed in.
Honestly you make me a bit ill.
Agreed
Are we in for 4 years of this temper tantrum?
Yes, I am afraid we are..maybe DeBlasio should start putting prozac in the water supply!
Not my water…this is a refreshing change from BO
Or 8 years?
I find these protests and marches repellent. Their shrill rhetoric accusing their opponents of racism, sexism, homophobia, is part of what cost them the election. Making unjust accusations and insulting people is not a way to win support.
These young people should be focusing on improving their own lives and careers.
What is the meaning of the sign stating “Fight Trump Every Day”? Does that mean they are going to be complaining and whining about Trump every day at work, inflicting their political views on everyone else around them? I hope not, because I for one am sick of listening to it.
If they are so passionate about politics, why don’t they make a study of it and publish some articles advocating their viewpoint in a well thought out manner. Instead they engage in emotional outbursts and disruption.
“Fight Trump Every Day” is likely tied to the central theme of the protest, which is to encourage people to contact their Congress every day for the next 100 days to point out that they want health care for all, they want equal human rights for all, and generally push for the positions favored by the majority of the country, rather than the radical positions being proposed by the new administration.
Well, Julianne Moore turns 67 this year and I’m younger than she is so thank you, you’re very kind. Let me answer on behalf of the “young people” who’re out marching.
I’m from northern Virginia, grew up in the Reagan era. I remember marches and the AIDS quilt on the mall to get the Reagan and Bush administrations to wake up and quit ignoring people dying from AIDS. I wish that had happened soon enough to save lives of people like my uncle, who died of AIDS in 1991 at age 35. I remember marches on the mall to show the depth of popular will for women’s rights and to defend Roe v Wade. I remember marches on the mall to show popular concern to acknowledge and rely on science, pure and simple, to protect the then-at-risk ozone layer.
You could question the counter-hypothetical: would we have achieved progress on these issues without people turning out and showing up to put these issues front and center. It’s impossible to know.
I see so much at risk for the US under the Trump administration that I haven’t had to worry about, with a level of existential dread, for the past 8 years. Here are several quick examples: climate change, rising sea levels, women’s rights, healthcare, foreign interference in US elections and the treatment of middle class white collar professionals in Putin’s Russia, nuclear proliferation, national security, police brutality without consequences, and civil rights for minorities and the underprivileged. And those are just my known unknowns.
Those are the issues that bring me out to show up, be visible, and stand in engaged, vocal, visible support. Will it make a difference? Time will tell!
Julianne Moore the actress? She just turned 56.
I stand corrected, she’s 56. Thanks Cat!
I see her at a small fish restaurant outside Montauk at the dock (fishbar).
Lovely person. Enjoys other diners taking photos with her and is always friendly.
56 is correct.
Wow….you sure haven’t been paying attention. Unjust accusations and insults are exactly what Trump did for his entire campaign. Lying, defaming, insulting and collusion …that’s how he won the electoral vote. Largely helped by Mr. Putin and his joy at having a “useful idiot” as President of the U.S. That is a direct quote and Putin is one very happy Russian now.
Curious. What part of “grab them by the pussy” would you consider an unjust accusation?
What part of “Mexicans are criminals and rapists” would you consider an unjust accusation?
Fight Trump every day means make sure this lunatic hears our voices for the next four years. What a shame that you’re already tired of hearing it. But get used to it, this is just the beginning.
I didn’t vote for Trump and I think he’s basically an awful human being, but in the interest of truthiness, he never said “Mexicans are criminals and rapists”.
in his announcement statement, June 15, 2015, he said:
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
that pretty much seems close enough.
Nathan, accept the truth:
https://www.dw.com/en/what-donald-trump-said-about-mexico/a-19515643
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Trump on June 16, 2015 in his speech announcing his candidacy for president.”
Close enough? It was presented as an exact quote, which it isn’t.
9d8b7988045e4953a882 Are you joking with this elaborate disguise? You are obviously out of touch with reality. BTW, not just young people there; nope, New Yorkers who care about our future in the face of the obvious danger who is trump.
What’s repellent is that a petulant narcissistic two year old, who is proud that he doesn’t read, who insulted a disabled reporter, mocked Senator McCain for being a POW, boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, refers to Mexican immigrants as rapists, wants to ban all Muslims from entering the country, who insulted a Gold Star family, just to name a few, managed to hoodwink the American electorate into supporting him. He is the most unfit person to ever become the leader of the free world. The next four years will be unbearable under this loathsome creature. You know what I’m sick of? TRUMP- and his tweeting and his hostility and his disgusting unpresidential behavior. Fight him every day young people. I’ll be right out there with you as much as I can be!
AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!
YES! Well said. It was so inspiring to be at that rally last night with people who will not see their American values and way of life destroyed by a reign of billionaire oligarchs. Plans for gutting the National Endowment for the Arts and PBS. Plans to defund Planned Parenthood. Plans to deport millions of immigrants. Plans to cut access to affordable health care by repealing the ACA without a viable way to ever replace it. Plans to cut Medicare by 40%. Plans to cut Medicaid. And a plan to privatize social security. Plans to role back freedoms won for LGBT people. A degradation of women and their reproductive rights. What majority gave Trump and the Republicans the idea that the American people would let them destroy their precious way of life so their billionaire friends could have even more money and their right wing ideologues who exploit religion could repress others rights? None that I know of as Clinton won the popular vote by some 3 million? And as for the crowd last night, it was as mixed in age and diversity as any I’ve seen. It ended with the singing of This Land Is Your Land! As long as New York keeps standing strong it will be!
AMEN!
Don’t forget to set your clocks back 80 years tomorrow night
I’m proud of all of us New Yorkers and my fellow Upper West Siders for standing up for what is right. We will not stand for any Transphobia, Xenophobia, Police Brutality, Sexism, Racism, or Homophobia. 4 years will go by quickly and we will continue on the path we’ve been travelling on for the past 8 years. Get ready.
I’m so proud to have voted for him! We all need to get this American train back on track and I believe he can do it.
I’m so proud to have voted for him! We all need to get this American train back on track and I believe he can do it.
Liberals are such special people, their mission is to tell everyone else what to think and live.
All this noise is just directed at your fellow Americans who live with you and pay taxes with you and have never been politically swayed by incessant vile thrown at them under the guise of “we have to save America.”
Listen I didn’t vote for him but I wouldn’t vote for any of you out there embarrassing yourselves and our country. Get lives, to kisss a girl , something sheesh
Getting the train back on track – really?
Just like Mussolini got the trains running on time?
The republicans have opposed a public owned national train system that is upgraded to the standards as in all other developed countries.
And what exactly is so horrendous about your life that you’re frothing at the bit to get it back on track?
This American train is already on track, but a major derailment will happen in the morning.
This jackass is NOT going to do anything to help anyone but himself, and screw you and me and the whole country in the process.
WAKE THE HELL UP!
So much hate speech! 🙁 We need to unite and stand as one. Trump is not perfect but if people really want to make a change (and not grandstand) they should start at the grassroots level.
Totally agree, but that’s not how the left works…don’t you know that there if you don’t agree with them then you’re wrong.
Any local demonstrations of support for our beloved, (very) soon-to-be-President DJT?
While I have been conflicted about Trump all along, he certainly has been making all (or at least most of) the right enemies. And the more they hate him, the more I like him.
(Bold-text emphasis mine- Ind.)
Uh huh…
And note: The same people who demanded that Trump “denounce”, “repudiate” and “reject” various entities that he had nothing to do with simply because they had endorsed him but had made no such demands of Obama, whose candidacy for President had been endorsed by Louis Farrakhan, now brazenly align themselves with Sharpton. The hypocrisy has come full-circle.
Note the apparent lack of window guards.
Why would they need window guards?
This is our land. Thanks for this coverage. 100 days…. and we will do what we have to do. We are New Yorkers.
I thought these actors/actresses were leaving the country? I doubt the (new) president will step down solely based on protests.
This is now becoming comical. Yes, Trump is an idiot, but why don’t all these cry babies wake up and realize that Hillary got billions from wall street for her campaign and that she is a bigger HAWK than Trump? She is also pretty corrupt at that. At least Trump is talking about making the inner cities better for blacks. Give the guy a chance and stop acting like its the end of the world. Democrats have become worse than republicans now!
“At least Trump is talking about making the inner cities better for blacks”
I’ll give you that, he sure does talk a lot. And Tweet. He Tweets quite a bit. Lots of Tweeting.
Either way I’m sure the inner city blacks you speak of are quite confident he’ll follow through on his many, conflicting, promises *cough*
WHEN has Trump said or done anything to imply he wants to help inner city black people?? Are you kidding? Probably more fake news. Another brilliant, hoodwinked sheep!
Protest to your hearts content. Be proud that as an American you have the FREEDOM to do it.
LOL I watched from my window also. A bunch of disorganized folks if you ask me. I noticed signs about so many things that a clear message was elusive.
I voted for Trump so I am very happy about his clear message.
so me, John, who else on the UWS voted for Trump? At least another 5 people right? 4?
Count me in among those on the Upper West Side who voted for our new President, Donald J. Trump. (More than a mere Trump voter, I am proud to count myself among the “irredeemable” sub-set of the “basket of deplorables” half of Trump voters.)
I question whether this is the real “UWSHebrew”, though. This “UWSHebrew” talks about the total number of people on the Upper West Side who voted for Trump as being as little as six or seven. In contrast, the real UWSHebrew would surely have known that the actual number, while obviously a small minority relative to the total number of voters in these parts, had to have been at least in the hundreds.
Isn’t it about time those of us on the UWS who support our new President, Donald J. Trump, organize to demonstrate our support for him– or at least for the legitimacy of his Presidency? This should include individuals who did not vote for DTJ themselves but who nonetheless accept the legitimacy of the election results and wish to distinguish themselves from the “Not Our President” crowd that WSR has been amply and glowingly covering.
I wonder what WSR’s coverage of such a demonstration– one in support of our new President– would be like…
– Barack Hussein Obama, January 23, 2009
So organize something.
I know that it’s hard to get away from the computer and actually do something real.
Maybe you can be that person to make it happen.
Or, you can do what we all know you will do, which is nothing but wait for someone else to do it.
i think he’s that 400 lb guy in NJ sitting at his computer in his underpants. you know, the one Trump is always talking about.
We explicitly asked for people to send notice of demonstrations in favor of the president in this post: https://www.westsiderag.com/2017/01/18/5-ways-that-locals-are-ramping-up-opposition-ahead-of-inauguration
If people march in favor of Trump on the UWS, please do let us know.
From the link you cited:
First to be clear: I did not mean to accuse you of deliberately not covering any local pro-Trump event. I take you at your word that you have not been aware of any (and, for all I know, there may very well not have been any, at least any that were public or widely known).
Please note, though, that “Republican groups celebrating the inauguration” is far more limited than the “demonstrations of support” (my exact wording) that I had inquired about and encouraged; neither those who voted for the President nor those who did not vote for him but nonetheless now support the legitimacy of his election and nascent Presidency, are limited-to Republicans. (Nor, for that matter, were those who voted for and supported Obama limited-to Democrats*). And “demonstrations of support” are not limited, specifically, to inauguration celebrations.
(*A fact that ought to be noted by the individual who recently implied that “the ‘birther’ movement” was one of “The Republicans”, as opposed to being limited to some, mainly fringe, Republicans and at least some non-Republicans as well).
I characterized your coverage of the protests against President Trump as “ample and glowing”. I stand by that characterization. I do not consider it inherently negative.
And, to conclude, based on said coverage thus far that I have seen, I maintain that it is quite reasonable to question what your coverage would be like of any pro-Trump events (should any local ones come to pass) and how it would compare to the coverage that you have done thus far.
Keep it up
Oh my god those eeeeevil Russians! Imma pour out my fine bottle of Stoli just to show em. Can we rename borscht “freedom soup?” Liberal dems are funny.
I’m concerned that the people Trump is surrounding himself with also minimize the threat that Russia poses to the United States. You’re obviously too young to have lived through the Cold War. Let me just say the Russian government’s only interest is to undermine our country and make us appear weak to the rest of the world. Sadly our new President will allow that to happen
Indeed. The same people who blamed the right for the Cold War and argued for a live and let live policy toward the Soviets (and, in many cases, were apologists for –if not outright supporters of– Stalin, the greatest mass murderer in history.) Now that Russia is led by an unapologetic White, Christian, nationalist and traditionalist, they’re ready to start a new Cold War and recklessly and completely needlessly take us to the brink of a nuclear showdown.
Scott – you have no idea what you are talking about. The level of danger that Russia represents is obviously more than your small brain can handle. Trump is a treasonous clown that has put us all in grave danger through his ego and stupidity (and carelessness at allowing him to have any dirt on him) in trusting/defending Putin. This is absolute fact, not a “liberal Democrat” opinion.
Oh, please.
Russia is only a threat to us if we continue to meddle into their affairs and needlessly and stupidly provoke them. As Trump said at his first press conference, if Putin likes him, that’s an asset, not a liability.
{rolls eyes again}
That “dossier”?
( Revenge of the spooks )
Thanks, though, to you and to Cyrus, as well, for providing a prime example of exactly what I was referring-to in my previous post in this sub-thread. On Russia, Democrats are now the new John Birchers.
Jess, you’re so right. Trump is clearly a present-day Boris Badenov and Melania is Natasha. But the heroic Dems are Rocky & Bullwinkle and will surely save us from those no-goodniks!
I’d love to live in 15CPW – Magnificent building
You can hate DJT all you want but he was the one elected. If Hillary’s didn’t have all ofher baggage and if the DNC didn’t railroad Bernie Sanders the situation may very well be different.
I didn’t like BHO when he was nominated but I didn’t bitch and moan for months afterwards. And I certainly didn’t wish ill will toward him. I acted like an adult and hoped for the best for our great nation.
Do a FACEBOOK search for PHONE CALLS TO CONGRESS. Links for Congress contacts. We call Congress en masse and explain to them why we agree or disagree with what they and POTUS is doing. We have to be pro-active and let them know.
Good Luck and GOD Bless to our new president.
I am going to enjoy the next 4 (hopefully 8) years of watching the collective heads explode on the UWS.
What a bunch of whining babies. Maybe if we get everyone a participation ribbon for second place people will be happy. Otherwise just deal with it. If Obama didn’t ruin the country, and boy did he try, Trump won’t either.
I was in Zabars on November 10th, and people were miserable. I was smiling from ear to ear. I live on the UWS but all you liberals are pathetic.
you seem to be full of hate and anger towards your neighbors. i wonder why.
I expect that you represent those who are enjoying the sadness this has provoked.
makes me sadder still
“I am going to enjoy the next 4 (hopefully 8) years of watching the collective heads explode on the UWS.
What a bunch of whining babies.”
hate everyone in an entire neighborhood!
now i am worried that Trump CAN ruin everything.
I cannot bring myself to call Donald,
President Trump, therefore I will
address him as Trump from the
Apprentice, in fact I just refer to
him with two letters D.T. Period..