More people in the U.S. protested in June than in any month since the January Women’s Marches. ; Most protests were against President Trump and his policies, but roughly a quarter were unrelated to Washington politics.
For June 2017, we tallied 818 protests, demonstrations, strikes, marches, sit-ins and rallies in the United States, with at least one in every state and the District of Columbia. Our conservative guess is that from 954,298 to 1,173,771 people showed up at these political gatherings last month, although it is likely there were far more participants. Because mainstream media often neglect to report nonviolent actions — especially small ones — it is probable that we did not record every event that took place. Sometimes no one reports the size of the crowd, which contributes to undercounting. …Read the Rest
Source:: NRA-ILA
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