Strange thing tho, I looked at some news channels to see beautiful images of the crowds and they talked about it way more on French TV (BFM etc) than US TV (the only news channel I have is CNN, which shows more adds than news WTF?)
Remember, billionaires do not want people organizing at all.
All the US tv stations are owned by one oligarch or another. None of them have broadcast much of the numbers. They merely do report these things as “large and significant” to say that they aren’t behind on the happenings, but they’ll spare the details until things like AP and Guardian, and NPR start reporting with solid facts.
That’s why I have been a strong advocate for making sure the crowds are visualized. It’s harder to discount.
There were zero mainstream media outlets at the protest I went to (which was in a state’s capitol city.)
People in the crowd pointed it out, loudly and frequently enough that for a brief moment, one of the crowd’s chants became, “Where’s the media?” (Or something very similar; I don’t remember verbatim.)
I think we should hold our next events in front of prominent media offices. The news won’t come to us? We’ll go to the news. We have to make it impossible for them to ignore us.
Current estimates are 2.3 million across 1400 organized protests.
Now, Europeans, what was you saying?
Edit: estimate is now at 3.5million
Source was something else I was wrong
Edit 2: Yeah, take the numbers with a grain of salt. I’m sure we’ll hear the actual numbers sooner rather than later.
3.5 million out of what, 350 million? 1% is still not enough, but it is a start, and that counts!
That’s very, very significant.
France is proud of you.
Strange thing tho, I looked at some news channels to see beautiful images of the crowds and they talked about it way more on French TV (BFM etc) than US TV (the only news channel I have is CNN, which shows more adds than news WTF?)
Remember, billionaires do not want people organizing at all.
All the US tv stations are owned by one oligarch or another. None of them have broadcast much of the numbers. They merely do report these things as “large and significant” to say that they aren’t behind on the happenings, but they’ll spare the details until things like AP and Guardian, and NPR start reporting with solid facts.
That’s why I have been a strong advocate for making sure the crowds are visualized. It’s harder to discount.
There were zero mainstream media outlets at the protest I went to (which was in a state’s capitol city.)
People in the crowd pointed it out, loudly and frequently enough that for a brief moment, one of the crowd’s chants became, “Where’s the media?” (Or something very similar; I don’t remember verbatim.)
I think we should hold our next events in front of prominent media offices. The news won’t come to us? We’ll go to the news. We have to make it impossible for them to ignore us.
Good start.
This 100%
This isn’t the end, but the beginning. There’s a lot of fight left, don’t make the mistake of thinking we’re done now.