On the day of the Women’s March in January I was charged with two crimes when arriving at the cross road of two possible directions. At the intersection on Main St., in Driggs, while marchers were directed to turn right onto the sidewalk I decided to go left and march in the middle of Main Street and encouraged others to join me, while none did. A march, like every other Women’s March that day, occurred in the street, not whimpering on down the side walk where no one would know what was going on. My conscience did not permit to simply walk on the sidewalk, not giving the attention to the protest it required because of the imminent threat to our country by a madman who is in control of the Whitehouse. It would have been embarrassing and shameful, to have compromised my political beliefs and my right to engage in political protest if I had conformed with the rest of the crowd on the side walk. Our most traditional and sacred public forum for protest is taking to the street and marching. Especially when the urgency and peril brought on by the current administration's intent is to erode our democracy and destroy hard-fought environmental protections for the climate. An unstable president with his finger on the nuclear trigger, who is committed to eliminating health care for millions of Americans, is an admitted rapist and a racist and liar and who is disgracing our great nation made it clear that a more immediate message was needed other then a stroll down the sidewalk.