Size matters — at least when it comes to the size of our protests.
Though final count is still being tabulated, researchers Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman of the Crowd Counting Consortium estimate that over 1.25 million people across the United States participated in Saturday's March for Our Lives protest, making it one of the largest youth-led protests in American history, at least since the Vietnam War.
Beyond youth-led protests, March for Our Lives is also poised to become one of the biggest protests, period, in American history, surpassed only by the Women's March in 2017, where an estimated 4.15 million people participated, and the Women's March in 2018, where anywhere from 1.6 to 2.5 million people participated domestically.
These numbers aren't an accident. A combustible array of variables, including the rise in authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism worldwide and technology that makes it easier to organize sibling marches, have contributed to historic turnouts.
The counts are already huge. Now get ready for them to explode.
It's important to emphasize that measuring protest size is an imprecise art. Estimates of Saturday's Washington D.C. protest have ranged anywhere from 202,000 from Digital Design and Imaging Service, which uses drones to collect aerial data, to over 800,000 from organizers themselves, who collect RSVPs and data about public transportation usage. While the public tends to distrust data that comes from organizers, Chenoweth cautions that organizers are often more transparent about their data collection methods.
"I actually think the conservative estimate here is really quite conservative," Chenoweth says. "The drones are doing snapshots at given moments in time, but they're limited by their bird's-eye view of buildings, or different obstructions, especially when people are moving."
To arrive at their estimate (which is still being updated), Pressman and Chenoweth take a 10 percent deduction of the highest estimated count, provide a 10 percent boost to the lowest estimate, and then average the two. Using this method, their best guess for Saturday's turnout in D.C. hovers around 471,000.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Coronavirus attacks Global community
The world is a different place now Peace might have a chance!
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Violence in Mexico Nine people shot dead by a Mexican drug cartel
These are not the only victims of violence in Mexico
Police arresting mother and child near the border.
Mexican border wall
Kurdish refugees being bombed and shot after American troops leave the region. Kurdish child murdered
Executions of Kurdish people
We cannot continue to allow governments to perpetrate violence on innocent populations. We must stand up for peace!!! Speak truth to power!!
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Another Mass shooting in Dayton Ohio
A mass shooting was carried out in Dayton, Ohio, United States, on August 4, 2019, at 1:05 a.m. EDT. Ten people were killed, including the perpetrator, and 27 others were injured (14 of the injured were injured by gunfire). The gunman was killed by police within 30 seconds of the first shots being fired.[5]
People of color and women were targeted in this shooting!
Connor Betts the Shooter also targeted underrepresented community including his own sister!
The hatred is spilling out into the body politic as more shootings are happening each and every day. This has become the new normal for American Culture
Until we demand a change in the gun laws of this country death and destruction wil continue to follow this society. God Help us!
The violence continues as the nation mourns more increase in racial violence in El Paso Texas
After 22 people were shot to death at a Walmart in El Paso over the weekend, a Florida retiree found herself imagining how her grandchildren could be killed. A daughter of Ecuadorean immigrants cried alone in her car. A Texas lawyer bought a gun to defend his family.
For a number of Latinos across the United States, the shooting attack in El Paso felt like a turning point, calling into question everything they thought they knew about their place in American society. Whether they are liberal or conservative, speakers of English or Spanish, recent immigrants or descendants of pioneers who put down stakes in the Southwest 400 years ago, many Latinos in interviews this week said they felt deeply shaken at the idea that radicalized white nationalism seemed to have placed them — at least for one bloody weekend — in its cross hairs.
Hate filled shooter Kills 22
Patrick Crusius HATE filled rhetoric by the POTUS has provided the fuel for this and other violence in American social Milieu. The response will continue to be felt by the citizens of this country. Only a change of heart can stop the carnage.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Immigration is the new Domestic Terrorism
The government has adopted domestic Terrorist tactile strategy to address this issue!
Violence is reaching new heights as the Trump Administration of massive deportation policy gathers momentum.
The United States also is considering major conflict in the middle east with Iran because of its policy on Nuclear power and control of nuclear weapons within the global community.
We must deepen our efforts at peacekeeping if this world is to survive Trump Administrations negative foreign policy and global quest for supremacy and domination..
Struggle and pray for PEACE
Nations under the guidance of God do not Terrorize the helpless.
Lots of shootings since we last checked in and the new President is at it again! Creating the new SPACE FORCE!!!
We are entering into a new phase of Dictatorship with this administration as we confront the obsession and fear of this nation . Whether it is flipping FBI agents or bump stocks or locking up children at the border. It is still violence!
Flipping FBI agent
Border arrest of Children
We continue to support a gun and weapons culture despite the carnage of the recent school shootings!!
Parkland shootings
Santa Fe Texas school shootings !
This is a gun culture and we need to address the epidemic of violence that continues to plague our cities and community! Instead we prep for a new armed force!
We need to present peace to the world not plans for future violence!!!
We face an entirely new violent situation as the world becomes obsessed with this new weapons technology.
Pray for peace!