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pnwmom

(108,990 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:43 PM Jan 2018

300K in Chicago, 500K in Los Angeles, 200K in NYC. One million in just 3 of the cities! This is HUGE

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200K was the police estimate in New York City. 37K was the police estimate in San Diego.

What other numbers are you seeing?

https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/la-holds-largest-womens-march-country-500k-people

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles and across the nation Saturday, as the second Women's March looked to convert anger at President Donald Trump's policies into victories in this year's elections.

The coordinated rallies in L.A., Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, Santa Ana, Palm Springs and other cities also aimed to repeat the success of last year's demonstrations, where an estimated 3 to 4 million took to the streets to protest Trump's inauguration.

Organizers of the L.A. event predicted at least 200,000 this year, but Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told the crowd gathered at City Hall that the official estimate was 500,000 people, which he said would make it the largest march in the country. Last year's L.A. march was also the largest.

http://abc7chicago.com/politics/about-300k-attend-2nd-womens-march-chicago-exceeding-last-year-organizers-say/2970801/

About 300K attend 2nd Women's March Chicago, exceeding last year, organizers say

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sd-me-womens-march-20180120-story.html

San Diego police estimated 37,000 people participated in the event — about the same size as last year’s 40,000.

It is one of several marches being held across the nation this weekend, with most happening Saturday. The national march will be on Sunday, this time in Las Vegas rather than Washington, D.C.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Tens-of-Thousands-Expected-for-NYC-Womens-March-Organizers-Say--470263133.html

Some 200,000 women's rights supporters marched through Manhattan on Saturday, wearing pink hats and carrying signs of resistance, as leaders urged them on with a rallying call: "This is our time."

The large showing came amid the #MeToo movement and on the one-year anniversary of the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Marchers packed streets from Upper West Side to midtown on a sunny and pleasant day. Organizers said among goals of this year's march were getting more Democrats to run for public office and bolstering voter registration.

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300K in Chicago, 500K in Los Angeles, 200K in NYC. One million in just 3 of the cities! This is HUGE (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2018 OP

No numbers from NV, but we were there in force. Not a stretch to say the crowds were larger too. ffr Jan 2018 #1

The numbers aren't valid, at least not yet. BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #2

Mayor Eric Garcetti said that the 500K was LA's "official estimate" and the article pnwmom Jan 2018 #3

Seems like we should be able to leverage social media to show the complete picture. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2018 #4

Last year the March organizers collected this information, so I assume they'll do it this year, too. pnwmom Jan 2018 #5

I was thinking more about the individual and user GPS location OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2018 #6

We must have had 10,000 + in Columbus, OH today Botany Jan 2018 #7

That should be the theme next time -- sharks! Great idea. n/t pnwmom Jan 2018 #11

Woot! Hekate Jan 2018 #8

Philly! ffr Jan 2018 #9

I hope these huge marches have the Republicans peeing their pants. nt tblue37 Jan 2018 #10

K&R smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #12

ffr

(22,671 posts)

1. No numbers from NV, but we were there in force. Not a stretch to say the crowds were larger too.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:44 PM

Jan 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,626 posts)

2. The numbers aren't valid, at least not yet.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:46 PM

Jan 2018

Last year LA ended up having 750, 000 but it was reported at about half that for a while.

pnwmom

(108,990 posts)

3. Mayor Eric Garcetti said that the 500K was LA's "official estimate" and the article

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:48 PM

Jan 2018

mentioned the change in the numbers last year.

OAITW r.2.0

(24,570 posts)

4. Seems like we should be able to leverage social media to show the complete picture.

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:52 PM

Jan 2018

Aggregating data via social check-ins at locations both large and small would give tremendous insight to understand the true scope of the protest.

pnwmom

(108,990 posts)

5. Last year the March organizers collected this information, so I assume they'll do it this year, too.

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 07:55 PM

Jan 2018

But I was impatient!

OAITW r.2.0

(24,570 posts)

6. I was thinking more about the individual and user GPS location

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:06 PM

Jan 2018

i dare say most have cellphones and use them for pics. Having a app to sign in on would give organizers a powerful tool to understand the big picture and small picture as well.

Botany

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7. We must have had 10,000 + in Columbus, OH today

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 08:06 PM

Jan 2018

The March* was 14 blocks long and people were still marching after I made the loop of the
state capital. A local TV station said it was only several hundred people but it was much
bigger than that.

* We were on the sidewalk and in honor of Trump I wore a shark outfit.

Daniels describes an evening when she joined Trump in his hotel room in Beverly Hills.

“The strangest thing about that night — this was the best thing ever. You could see the television from the little dining room table and he was watching Shark Week and he was watching a special about the U.S.S. something and it sank and it was like the worst shark attack in history. He is obsessed with sharks. Terrified of sharks. He was like, ‘I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.’ He was like riveted. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/19/trump-seems-to-think-that-sharks-are-ocean-terrorists/?utm_term=.2e3e393daa1c