The numbers seem to be record breaking and historic…
There where also more protests across the world ….
Let’s hope the message sinks in and stays around affecting change after the people leave the streets….
And they have been on Donald Trump’s watch….
And he hid in his basement?
The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today.
Four recent polls — including one released this week by Civis Analytics, data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns — suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks.
These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts.
Number of people in U.S. who said they protested, according to polls
| POLL | PCT. WHO PROTESTED | IMPLIED POPULATION | POLLING PERIOD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser Family Foundation (n = 1296) | 10% | 26 million | June 8-14 |
| Civis Analytics (4446) | 9% | 23 million | June 12-22 |
| N.O.R.C. (1310) | 7% | 18 million | June 11-15 |
| Pew (9654) | 6% | 15 million | June 4-10 |
“I’ve never seen self-reports of protest participation that high for a specific issue over such a short period,” said Neal Caren, associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who studies social movements in the United States.
While it’s possible that more people said they protested than actually did, even if only half told the truth, the surveys suggest more than seven million people participated in recent demonstrations.
The Women’s March of 2017 had a turnout of about three million to five million people on a single day, but that was a highly organized event. Collectively, the recent Black Lives Matter protests — more organic in nature — appear to have far surpassed those numbers, according to polls.
“Really, it’s hard to overstate the scale of this movement,” said Deva Woodly, an associate professor of politics at the New School.
Professor Woodly said that the civil rights marches in the 1960s were considerably smaller in number. “If we added up all those protests during that period, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people, but not millions,” she said.
Even protests to unseat government leadership or for independence typically succeed when they involve 3.5 percent of the population at their peak, according to a review of international protests by Erica Chenoweth, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School who co-directs the Crowd Counting Consortium, which collects data on crowd sizes of political protests….
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What’s more is there have been reports NO spikes in virus infections from the protest’s, where masks where wore by most….
image…Bill Clark/AP