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 andContinue reading “2023 Trends in U.S. Protest Activity”
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Housing Crisis Begets Housing Protests
On Saturday, May 20, 2023, more than 1,000 tenants, union members, community organizers, and politicians gathered at Cadman Plaza in the rain and then marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to call for lower rents in New York City and the passage of state legislation to protect tenants from eviction without good cause. The scale andContinue reading “Housing Crisis Begets Housing Protests”
Monthly Review: March 2021
So far, the Crowd Counting Consortium has recorded more than 1,800 protest events in the U.S. in March 2021, with roughly 88,000 to 125,000 participants in the events for which we were able to find information about crowd size (a little more than half of the events recorded). That’s an 80-percent increase in the numberContinue reading “Monthly Review: March 2021”
Counting Crowds 