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https://www.threads.net/@nprpubliceditor/post/DIhOEQQOyqP
EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st
we've circled the city of Jericho seven hundred times now and we're no closer to shouting the walls down
This seems like lazy, irresponsible journalism to me. If the protests aren't interesting from a distance, get out there and interview people. Ask them for their stories and tell them! Otherwise they're just telling the protesters they need to be violent to get attention.
Third or fourth largest protest in the history of the country... "Not newsworthy."
This kind of shows that maybe protests aren't working. If 100,000 people coming out isn't noteworthy that's because it's easily dismissed as a small vocal minority. If less than 1% of the population come out to the streets on a sunny weekend that's just a party. Obviously it's not, but that's a very easy dismissal of a protest that didn't even disrupt a work day to try and make a point.
This reaction by this reporter is manufactured obviously but there's truth in it. If there's a protest every month that doesn't rock the boat and doesn't agitate for anything then it will just fade into the background.
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
Just remind people that there were months of peaceful protests that went unheard when they start complaining about public disruptions
This thread glows so much my insides hurt.
Not trying to be divisive. I'll go with what the majority decides.
In my opinion, many protests spread across the country aren't as effective as massive ones in the major cities.
If Trump looks out the window and sees 3 million people in DC even his tiny mind will take note.
You sure? It's obvious he can't count.
He’s also demented.