Lib Librarian

Erica Firment

I took this photo a few years ago at the March for Women’s Lives in Washington DC. Over a million people showed up. It got almost no press coverage, but those of us who went will never forget it.

I was lucky enough to run into this fellow librarian from Los Angeles.

We are everywhere. We are legion!

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6 Responses to “Lib Librarian”

  • Laura Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    My mom and I were there, and we found some people who had known my great grandmother, who was not a librarian but who did found the West Palm Beach chapters of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU, and, shortly after the passage of Roe v. Wade, sold a bracelet in order to start a fund to help women in Florida who couldn’t afford abortions.

  • Brittany Says:
    September 27th, 2006 at 11:37 pm

    I was also there. You’re very right about the press coverage issue… *sigh*

  • Nancy Calabretta Says:
    October 16th, 2006 at 10:44 am

    I was there, too, with my daughter and her college roomate. I’ll bet there were LOTS of librarians there and, you’re right, I’ll never forget it!

  • Kate Says:
    October 16th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

    My husband and I went–it was fantastic! It was also my first semester of library school–I graduated in August from USF.

  • Erica Says:
    October 16th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    I think I saw you guys! You were wearing pink shirts, right?

    Man, that was amazing. I felt so overwhelmed! I have never before or since seen so many people in one place. There were seas of pink shirts flowing out of the subways and filling up downtown. Incredible. Just incredible.

  • Kate Says:
    October 23rd, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    Hey Erica!
    No, we weren’t wearing pink, but that certainly was a most interesting Metro ride that day!
    It was only our second time in D.C. (the first was a year earlier for the first annual ACLU convention–what can I say, I’m a Lib too!) and we went back for the march in 2004. It was the largest ever on the National Mall, or so they say…