Another protest march
We were planning to go to the "No Kings" march in midtown Manhattan today, but ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere has been dealing with persistent leg pain (behind the left knee) for several days, it was still in evidence this morning, and she decided that standing and walking slowly for several hours on asphalt might not be a good idea. So I went stag to a smaller march in walking distance of home. However, the smaller one started several hours earlier, and the "march" portion of it was over by the time I arrived; it had become a "rally" in front of the county courthouse, with a variety of elected officials, clergy, and musical groups.
There were two "No Kings" specific songs at the rally. One, No Kings in the USA, was new to me; the recording includes a bunch of apparently-famous musicians I've never heard of. The other I had first heard a day or two earlier when one of its writers, John Forster (whom we know through the local chapter of the American Recorder Society), e-mailed us a video. The other co-writer was Tom Chapin, and the video has cameos by a couple of other Chapins, Noel Stookey, Jon McCutcheon, Christine Lavin, Judy Collins, and a bunch of other musicians whose names I didn't recognize. The song is days or weeks old, and in a fitting example of the folk process, people at today's rally were already changing the words: the chorus became "No kings! No kings! in Queens".
shalmestere has been dealing with persistent leg pain (behind the left knee) for several days, it was still in evidence this morning, and she decided that standing and walking slowly for several hours on asphalt might not be a good idea. So I went stag to a smaller march in walking distance of home. However, the smaller one started several hours earlier, and the "march" portion of it was over by the time I arrived; it had become a "rally" in front of the county courthouse, with a variety of elected officials, clergy, and musical groups.There were two "No Kings" specific songs at the rally. One, No Kings in the USA, was new to me; the recording includes a bunch of apparently-famous musicians I've never heard of. The other I had first heard a day or two earlier when one of its writers, John Forster (whom we know through the local chapter of the American Recorder Society), e-mailed us a video. The other co-writer was Tom Chapin, and the video has cameos by a couple of other Chapins, Noel Stookey, Jon McCutcheon, Christine Lavin, Judy Collins, and a bunch of other musicians whose names I didn't recognize. The song is days or weeks old, and in a fitting example of the folk process, people at today's rally were already changing the words: the chorus became "No kings! No kings! in Queens".