I have a feeling that they may not survive all the way to November. They are self destructing at increased speed, based on our trusty media's reports:
From here to court steps, a day of fury and division - The Boston Globe
“I had to spend a few hours curled up on my couch,” Jane Piercy, 56, of Brookline, said outside the State House on Friday night. “I’m not making that up, either. I just felt sick.”
But she did not stay home for long. On Friday night, Piercy was among the hundreds who rushed to Beacon Hill to protest the Senate’s handling of sexual assault allegations raised against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the devastating implication that, a year into the #MeToo movement, and with Kavanaugh now confirmed as a justice, women are still not being heard.
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“I woke up, still feeling betrayed — but resolved,” tweeted Ayanna Pressley, the city councilor and sexual assault survivor who upset 10-term Democratic incumbent Representative Mike Capuano in the September primary. “They have knocked us down, but not out. I still believe in the power of us.”
Next Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the birth of the #MeToo movement — a hashtag campaign begun on Twitter by actress Alyssa Milano encouraging women to divulge their own experiences with sexual harassment and assault.
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“At this stage, we just have to show up and keep a long view,” said Colette Berard, 39, of Somerville. “I’m a history teacher so I think of other movements in our country. . . . They want us to be complacent.”
In Washington on Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators chanted “Vote No” outside the Supreme Court , and one woman dressed as a handmaid to represent the antifeminist future imagined in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Others wore T-shirts with a foreboding prediction for the midterm elections: “November is coming.” When a passing motorist shouted support for the man of the hour — “Kavanaugh rules!” — a few in the crowd shouted back an obscenity.