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If You Were Wondering Why Protest Coverage Seems Fairly Muted, NPR's Public Editor Confirms This is Intentional (lemmy.ml)

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EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Protests take time to work. If you think that one day of protest is going to change it all, look to other movements. You can succeeded; it just takes much longer than people think they take. They want you thinking it's hopeless so when you don't get immediate results, they're happy to call them failures

Estimates are far higher than 100,000 people. Not just a small number. It was ~4 million on April 19th and ~3-5 million on April 5th depending on the estimates you look at

They are claiming it's "thousands" across the limited US media coverage, but you can find photos online of those kinds of numbers in various smaller cities alone