Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
Absolutely no reasonable person protesting on Saturday expected the federal government to lie down immediately and just give up, turn democratic and liberal, enact single payer healthcare and stop needlessly sending people to places like “Alligator Alcatraz” without due process. If that was your expectation, you are stupid. I still think you’re great, of course, but you are either willfully ignorant or woefully naive.
A lot of naysayers who are supposedly “on the same side” are poo-pooing all over this with statements like “it was pointless” and “it achieved nothing”. Be ignorant like MAGA if you want, it’s a free country.
My small, rural, southern town that held a protest was planning for around 150 people to attend. Last I heard, the official number of attendees was around 300. It might not sound like much, but that was an enormous surprise to pretty much everyone. We even had a Trump supporter drive around dozens of times blasting his horn and doing the most pitiful attempt at rolling coal you’ve probably ever seen. It was great!
But, I know for a fact, I personally realized that there are way more of my neighbors than I thought who are politically aligned with me. I saw dozens upon dozens, maybe even hundreds of people in their cars honking, waving, blowing kisses, giving thumbs up. I guarantee you at least some of those folks drove down the local highway feeling like they were alone, outliers, and surrounded by haters, then they hit the first intersection in town and saw literally hundreds of their neighbors who agree with them politically. That’s empowering and that’s absolutely NOT pointless.
But, I know for a fact, I personally realized that there are way more of my neighbors than I thought who are politically aligned with me.
I keep seeing people ask why and this is the answer. I was surprised to see the number of people I did in smaller towns across Texas.
I saw coverage on several of the networks and PBS. I swear, I start to fall into conspiracy theory thinking when I watch news these days. All the coverage was NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, etc… Blue cities that have been demonized by the press and magats for years, despite reality. I think it would have been way more helpful to see coverage of protests like where you are. I went to my local one, there were a few thousand people, but honestly, that was expected.
I live in small town Washington, population 2k, and we also had around 300 people show up in the rain to protest. In the rain!
I live in Little Rock. Our Pride march was mixed with the No Kings march. Estimates were for 10-20k people between the two events, and I would say we got that many at least. The local conservative paper said “hundreds” gathered for the No King’s rally, the local Fox affiliate said “dozens” gathered for Pride. If you weren’t there, you would have no idea how big it was, a single video angle couldn’t begin to capture the size as they spread across multiple city blocks. Would be nice if they could at least try for honesty.
Worth noting that it’s in spite of threats of violence and getting disappeared. There’s bound to be some people who didn’t attend because of immigration status or worry over job loss.
But immigration status makes sense right? I am on Green Card I try to avoid any political demonstration because I don’t vote. I don’t want to lose my visa, my home and be sent to a concentration camp, no everyone is protected by the 1st right now.
Yes, exactly my point, the march is suppressed by the authoritarian government. 7 million is a lot when it probably could have been twice that if everyone was able to come out who disagreed with how things are going.
I live in an ultra red shithole and even we had an easy 300+ people turn out and line an entire intersection with signs. Shit is looking good.
Same. I drove through them and it was great to see. What I was surprised to see was that most everyone was late gen x and boomer age. Very few young people.
I gave them a thumbs up out my window and they all started hollaring. It was fun, seemed like a great vibe.
At mine it looked like a mix of boomers/late gen X and older Gen Z, with very few in between.
I wasn’t able to go, but my buddy did. He and I are both mid-60s, and he said the vast majority of people were our age or older. This is southern California.
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And the award for ugliest graph goes toooo…
Wow, its crazy seeing my little hometown get recognition. Shout outs to
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Whoever made it should be sent to jail immediately
Where they will learn about bar graphs.
Ba dum ching!
Big crowd in Tennessee yesterday! I’m floored by how united we are against Trump and the MAGA minority across the country, even in my deep red city. Then idea of any kind of left-of-center gathering happening here 15 years ago would’ve been unthinkable
We had a nice crowd in Kansas City as well. If only our fascist governor would let our voices matter too. But it’s nice to see that people are waking up.
I’m not sure who pegged the number for major change at 5%, but the good news is that with the numbers seen yesterday, a rough 1.45%-2.33% of total U.S. population (342,678,000 est. as of Oct. 18) made it out. Great work by the organizers and demonstrators, roughly halfway there.
http://www.generalstrikeus.com/ says 3.5%
Absolutely nobody should be taking this site seriously. It’s pretty disappointing that a non honey pot alternative hasn’t popped up yet (with Union support).
Take what seriously, exactly? The number count isn’t an accurate representation of who would be willing to strike. I don’t even know what would happen if 11 million people actually signed strike cards. But isn’t it doing its job of getting the word out that this is a possibility, and that it’s something we can work toward? Isn’t it giving people a way to organize and purposefully spread the word about the power of a general strike? Unless there’s something nefarious that I’m missing it’s doing exactly what I would want it to do.
They do have options to show support that don’t involved putting yourself into a database, but yeah.
I enthusiastically marched yesterday and at the demonstration in June, but I am against a third of those, skeptical of a third, and supportive of the rest. So I would be mostly against their causes. The No Kings rally yesterday focused on respecting the Constitution and opposing Executive overreach. My point is the longer the list demands, the greater the chance of alienating people.
Our estimate is based on reports from local officials, local organizers, and attendees, and suggests the count from organizers — who report 7 million participants nationwide — may be a bit optimistic (but is not impossible). Still, regardless of whether the precise number is 5, 6, 7, or 8 million, Saturday’s events are very likely the biggest single-day protest event since 1970, surpassing even the 2017 Women’s March demonstrations against Trump.
surpassing even the 2017 Women’s March demonstrations against Trump.
I guess he really does bring people together…
If the shit continues to get worse, the Americans might turn into the 1789 French.
Man I wish.
God I can only hope my fellow Americans will end up being so unbelievably based. I’m down to help but I don’t think I could start the guillotine parade all by myself. That’s more of a group activity.
I want to find some reliable numbers, but I think it’s going to take time for this google doc spreadsheet that is collating numbers to have accurate estimates. Especially since it community driven, using news articles that don’t have good data themselves. For example, I’ve seen drone footage of the San Diego march that clearly shows more than the 25k that is being used. SDPD said there were “over 25k in attendance.” Analysis of the video puts the crowd size closer to 35-40k (and that’s just for what was in frame for the video, at the time it was taken).
I’d say the protest I was at was at least twice as big as what’s listed in that sheet. It wasn’t a major city so it’s not that hard to count either.
And if I say I’m still not impressed by the turn out I get treated like an enemy.
We need more people. We need all the people.
This is a good protest. It’s a good start. But too many people will go back to work on Monday and wait for another one in a couple months.
And the fascists will go back to work on Monday kidnapping their neighbours and taking away their rights.
This is the problem with these protests. Everyone knows it’s a short thing you can go do on a weekend that won’t disrupt too much since most places are closed anyway and will be forgotten about in a week or so. For these non-violent things to work (since people keep yelling at me when I point out violent actions would be better) you have to not give an end time and make it a neverending thing. Something that continues into the work week and hurts businesses that are back open during that time.
What’s next?
So it beat the women that protested Trump’s first inauguration?
Edit: oh, I think that one is still #1 for a single city. This is a sum of protests across the whole country
Glad it has.
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