Protest encampments have sprung up over the past few weeks on more than 100 college and university campuses across the country, and they have rightly drawn national attention to the pro-Palestinian movement of which they are now an crucial part. A few things seem to be getting lost in the coverage of those encampments, however. Continue reading “Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Not”
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Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast Launches
The Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard Kennedy School‘s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation—one of the two institutional pillars of this project, along with the University of Connecticut—dropped the first two episodes of its new podcast earlier this month. As the we say in the promo blurb: The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings youContinue reading “Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast Launches”
A15 Day of Action for Palestinian Liberation Delivers Intended Disruptions
In the largest single day of deliberately disruptive protest activity in the United States since at least 2020, activists responded to the call for a global “coordinated economic blockade to free Palestine” with at least 26 acts of civil disobedience or direct actions in 23 different cities from coast to coast, resulting in more thanContinue reading “A15 Day of Action for Palestinian Liberation Delivers Intended Disruptions”
U.S. Protest Rhetoric Tracks Looming Famine in Gaza
As Refugees International president Jeremy Konyndyk wrote in a post this week on NYU School of Law’s Just Security blog: Three months ago the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) process (the official process for assessing famine risk) issued an urgent warning: the entire population of Gaza was “at risk” of famine, and over half aContinue reading “U.S. Protest Rhetoric Tracks Looming Famine in Gaza”
Israel/Palestine Protest Data Dashboards
To make it easier to find up-to-date information on pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protest activity in the United States since October 7, 2023, we recently created a pair of interactive data dashboards separately covering the two. You can access the dashboards by clicking on these links. Pro-Palestine Protests in the U.S. Since October 7, 2023 Pro-IsraelContinue reading “Israel/Palestine Protest Data Dashboards”
2020 Anti-Racism Protests and Their Aftermath in Connecticut
This is a guest post by Mason Holland, an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut majoring in Political Science. He also serves as President of the Student Body. In 2020, the United States bore witness to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that arose in the wake of the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, BreonnaContinue reading “2020 Anti-Racism Protests and Their Aftermath in Connecticut”
Pro-Palestine Movement of 2021
In May 2021, opposition to Israeli occupation and the displacement of Palestinians set off a large wave of pro-Palestinian protest activity in the United States. The initial protests were especially motivated by the Israeli push to remove Palestinian families who live in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and replace them with Israeli Jews, but otherContinue reading “Pro-Palestine Movement of 2021”
Hello, World!
Welcome to the blog of the Crowd Counting Consortium, a.k.a. CCC. CCC is a public-interest and scholarly project that documents political crowds in public spaces in the United States. CCC emerged in early 2017 from an improptu collaboration between Professors Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University) and Jeremy Pressman (University of Connecticut), who both found themselves thatContinue reading “Hello, World!”
Counting Crowds 