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”
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”
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 andContinue reading “2023 Trends in U.S. Protest Activity”
Counting Crowds 