From the Spokesman Review:
Protest marches are pointless if not focused. I’ve participated in exactly one, as a cranky, sleep-deprived architecture student. WSU officials had decided to close our branch library. We marched up the hill and barged into a Board of Regents meeting demanding that our library be saved. It worked.
Last week, there was a women’s protest march in downtown Spokane, and I didn’t attend. Conservative women weren’t welcome.
Friends who did participate assured me the Spokane Women’s March was inclusive. There were no calls to blow up the White House or reports of nasty speech like the “mother of all women’s marches” in Washington DC. The weather was decent and the atmosphere festive. This is a community that knows how to gather in the streets without turning it into a riot.
But I still didn’t feel welcome. There were no conservative voices by design