Three Things the Pro-Palestine Movement Is Not
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. …
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 you…
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 than…
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 a…
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-Israel…
2023 Trends in U.S. Protest Activity
The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) logged more than 29,500 rallies, demonstrations, marches, vigils, and other public protest events across the United States in 2023, up more than 6 percent from about 27,700 in 2022 (and excluding labor strikes, which we stopped covering in 2023). Those nearly 30,000 events occurred in about 2,900 different cities and…
Update on Israel/Palestine Protests
November 28, 2023 Since October 7, the Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) has recorded nearly 2,300 U.S. protests, rallies, marches, caravans, demonstrations, vigils, banner drops, and direct actions in support of Palestine or Israel, with hundreds of thousands of total participants on different sides of this mass mobilization. While the pace and size of public gatherings…
Pro-Palestine Wave Persists and Grows
November 6, 2023 Over the past few weeks, the burst of pro-Palestine protests, rallies, demonstrations, vigils, and direct actions in the U.S. that followed Hamas’ October 7th attacks on Israel and Israel’s military response to them has swelled into a sustained wave that is almost certainly broader and larger than any previous pro-Palestine protest wave…
Pro-Palestine Wave Accelerates
October 23, 2023 Over the past 10 days, the wave of U.S. street activism supporting Palestine has accelerated. Since October 7, 2023, when Palestinian militants launched attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, CCC has logged 420 pro-Palestine rallies, protests, demonstrations, and vigils in more than 180 different cities and towns across 46…
Recent U.S. Protest Activity in Support of Israel and Palestine
October 17, 2023 Since the October 7 attacks on Israel, the U.S. has seen hundreds of vigils, rallies, demonstrations, and protests in response to those attacks and the political and military reactions to them. Specifically, in those 10 days, CCC has recorded roughly 270 U.S. events expressing solidarity with Israel, compared with nearly 200 in…
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