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”
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Escalating Right-Wing Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community
In 2022, the American right has sharply escalated its attacks on gay and transgender people and the broader queer community. This escalation shows up in the Crowd Counting Consortium’s data as a steep and sustained increase in the rate of right-wing demonstrations pushing anti-LGBTQ+ claims. These anti-LGBTQ+ actions represent a still-modest but growing fraction ofContinue reading “Escalating Right-Wing Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community”
Right-Wing Backlash Against COVID-19 Mitigation Measures
Over the past two months, mobilization against public-health measures meant to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. has swelled to levels that exceed the wave of protests against business closures and stay-at-home orders around the start of the pandemic in 2020, Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) data show. And, so far, the current surgeContinue reading “Right-Wing Backlash Against COVID-19 Mitigation Measures”
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”
Protest Themes in Biden’s First 100 Days
On April 29, 2021—today—President Biden has held office for 100 days. While the president plans to mark the date by headlining a rally in Atlanta, we decided to use the occasion to look back at the major themes in U.S. protest activity in the first few months of the Biden Administration. So far, the CrowdContinue reading “Protest Themes in Biden’s First 100 Days”
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”
Stop Asian Hate
In the several days since a young white man shot and killed eight people—six of them women of Asian descent—at three sites near Atlanta, Georgia, vigils and other demonstrations of sadness, solidarity, frustration, and anger over racist violence and micro-aggressions targeting the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community have mushroomed across the U.S. The chartContinue reading “Stop Asian Hate”
Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor
On the night of March 13, 2020, police in Louisville, Kentucky, shot and killed Breonna Taylor in the dark in her bed. Police officers were executing a search warrant as part of an investigation into drug trafficking with which Taylor, a Black woman and healthcare worker, had nothing to do. One year later, on Saturday,Continue reading “Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor”
It’s the Climate Change, Stupid!
One issue has dominated environmental protest activity in the U.S. for at least the past four years, and that’s climate change. The charts below show monthly counts of protest events raising environmental concerns, and sums of estimated participants in those events (with appropriate caveats), in the U.S. since January 2017, according to the Crowd CountingContinue reading “It’s the Climate Change, Stupid!”
Monthly Review: February 2021
Now that the calendar’s turned to March, we can use Crowd Counting Consortium data to offer a preliminary overview of protest activity in the U.S. in February 2021. I say “preliminary” because we’ll keep encoding events in February (and earlier and later) as new information turns up, so these numbers are subject to some change.Continue reading “Monthly Review: February 2021”
Counting Crowds 