~1,200 events with an average attendance of 2,000 (a very low estimate) would be 2.4 million
~1,200 events with an average attendance of 5,000 would be 6 million
I wonder if anyone will be able to provoke Der Trumpnik into commenting on the day’s showing. His natural inclination would of course be to ignore the whole thing completely… UNLESS someone can poke and prod his ego and label him a “chicken-hearted, lily-livered, cowardly, mushroom-weenie, whiny LOSER” if he doesn’t step up like a man [cough, cough] and comment. He doesn’t seem to be able to resist a challenge to his almighty-ness. No doubt he’ll accuse Biden, Kamala, and Obama of organizing it.
In Morristown NJ the crowd of 2000+ had plenty of oldsters but also loads of middle-aged adults. Seemed to me there was a healthy representation of young adults. And two of the speakers were high school students. (One of the lasting tragedies of the last 8 years will be the damage done to Gen Zers’ understanding of our political system. They have never seen “sane” politics or even elections in action.)
I’m looking at pics of yesterday’s rally that were newly posted. A small, brown cardboard sign with black marker lettering said, ‘Elon eats farts.’ I got a chuckle out of it.
On a woman’s larger sign, someone had a white, paper, coffee cup drawing (taking up the whole sign) with ‘I like my government how I like my coffee. Not in my vagina.’
Alt National Park Service is using 5.2 million as their official number.
Estimates were based on reports from over 1,600 events nationwide. More than 21,000 coalition members traveled across the country to volunteer and help monitor safety at each location. These volunteers worked closely with local authorities to assess crowd sizes. Their reports were compiled and added together to arrive at the overall participation estimate.
All the photos I’ve seen were mostly people 60+ which I did find curious. But when I checked my Facebook feed yesterday and every friend with kids was busy attending something for/with their kids. So if the younger people were working, the middle aged people were busy with their families.
I had several protests happening in my vicinity but I couldn’t attend, I was helping a friend who just went through tragedy. I am impressed with the numbers that did show up!
I was there in money spirit, I donate. I have too much happening to attend, and my local protest was badly damaged by hard rains, but even so, that is what I would expect in my bright red district even without the rain. We did have a good BLM protest a few years ago, and I know people live here who do not like Trump policies.
Yeah, and this is so sad. They probably believe “good old days” crap is just that-- crap. That their parents and elders are misremembering and it’s all at best mythology and at worst, lies.
Maybe that’s it, and also (as has been said) a lot of younger people do have jobs that require weekend shifts.
But whatever the reason, this worked to the advantage of the resistance, in that Donald and his fascist pals evidently didn’t think that video of old white people getting their heads broken and hauled away in paddy wagons would work well for them.
If it had been crowds of young people, particularly young PoC–who knows?
There has been a LOT of talk to the tune of “we shouldn’t protest because that will just give Trump the excuse he wants to declare martial law, and then we’ll be a lot worse off.” That argument was exploded, yesterday.
And the next day-of-protest may bring out even bigger crowds.
All this is true, I think. Overall, it tells Americans that we don’t have to passively accept what’s happening.
It may even hearten GOP members of Congress into at least considering removing the cause of all this pain.
Let me give you an idea of the DC crowd. It was so big that there was no point within it from where you could see all of it. The stage with speakers was a distance south of the Washington Monument, and a group drumming and chanting as loud as they could at that distance north of the monument. From in between them, right next to the monument, you could hardly hear either. It took me about 1 hour to walk from one side to the other and back. I could not make out any counter-protestors around the edges of it, because the edges of it were so hard to find.
There was a pieman at the corner of Constitution and 14th St. NW giving out free samples of his delicious sweet potato, bean, and pecan pies, hawking them: “Get your tariff-free pies here! Ain’t no tariff in these pies!”
It looks like the next one is scheduled for April 19th and the theme is #NoKings.
It occurs to me that they are keeping them focused on domestic policy perhaps to keep Gaza out of it which would divide the crowd. There were a lot of Ukrainian flags and anti-Putin signs but next to nothing about Gaza in the one near me.
Sortof. I was too young then but my heart has always been with protesters.
In about 2002 I went to one in Cleveland ( hey ho hey ho the toxic Texan’s got to go).
Yeah, we have a regular Friday protest outside my congressman’s local office, and it’s basically a bunch of grandmas and librarians (and college professors, and the owners of a local bookstore and a restaurant-bakery). It would be nice to have a few more young people and definitely more black people, as it is Mississippi, but, on the other hand … grandmas and librarians and local business owners are popular people! And, honestly, it is probably a good thing for everybody around here to be reminded that middle-aged-to-elderly white people are not always Republican.
] and comment. He doesn’t seem to be able to resist a challenge to his almighty-ness. No doubt he’ll accuse Biden, Kamala, and Obama of organizing it. 
Couldn’t resist.