Yesterday was fun, right? We had the Orange Puppet crying into his golden champagne flute. But it was only a start. A march like that won’t get rid of Trump, it won’t even slow down the political change that he is planning to bring in, because right now he has the votes he needs in Congress to force that through.

My feeling is, and I accept I’m a long way away from the US these days, that what US politics needs is people calling their CongressCritters, incessantly. They need to know that people are behind them, because right now they are terrified of Trump’s supporters. All those people that the Republicans have been spending 8 years encouraging to buy guns? They are Trump people now.

As for the UK, one very positive thing you can do is join WEP and get involved. WE only have around 65,000 members right now. Almost twice that went on the London march alone. We need your help, and we need you to vote whenever you get a chance. Not necessarily for us because WE won’t have candidates everywhere, but for people who are prepared to stand up against Putin, Trump and May.

The other thing that you all need to do is foreground people from marginalized groups. It is true that the majority of marchers yesterday were middle class, middle aged and white. For now that meant that the police were afraid to brutalize the marchers. Had that march been predominantly people of color, or even white students, there would have been tear gas and baton charges, and the media would have been full of stories about how angry and violent the march was.

So we were allowed to march in peace (for now). What we do, when given that opportunity, is foreground those people who would not have been allowed to march in peace. Like this.