Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
While crowd sizes are difficult to estimate, organizers said that more than 600,000 people had signed up to participate and that events also took place in U.S. territories and a dozen locations across the globe.
If we assume one million people attended, then that’s… uh… nice I guess. If they can consistently engage this many people and expand their numbers there might be hope for America.
If we assume one million people attended, then that’s… uh… nice I guess. If they can consistently engage this many people and expand their numbers there might be hope for America.
Nationally, it’s something like 2.3 million who signed up. Probably more who turned out.
Next step is to get them all in DC for an indefinite stay (but probably not much longer than a week)
That’s remarkably hard with a crowd that big; it’s a 40+ hours of driving time from most of the west coast. The US is BIG
Where did you find that number?
I’m hearing it second-hand, supposedly from folks at Indivisible.
FWIW I heard it second hand too, but they pointed me at a couple of different sources, none of which I could actually verify.
Supposedly the 2.3m is an old estimate though, and it’s gone up. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.
Or OR you don’t shit on what’s going right, regardless of numbers.
I’m pretty sure I kept my comment within the realm of constructive criticism.
There was nothing constructive about it, literally just said “not good enough” lmao
No? I said “if they manage to do X and Y they might succeed”.
Registration sizes are going to be way under crowd sizes. I went with a bunch of folks. None of us registered.
In the small majority red city I grew up in there were well over 1000 people which is telling for that area.
In the even smaller somewhat red city I currently reside, multiple hundreds turned out.
That is very indicative to me.
Both of these protests were like…dozens the first few times. It’s growing. I’m excited to see it.