cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31700751
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”
I wonder what the total was and if we made it to 3.5 %
One group’s estimate is least 11 million, which is at the 3.5% figure and they are still counting! Been rising hourly by millions as they continue to count the thousands of protest locations
The 3.5% is not necessarily the full iron clad guarantee it’s touted as, but the high turnout is encouraging. Keep the pressure up!
Also, 3.5% was based on ongoing civil resistance campaigns with clear goals… so I don’t know that participation in a singular rally applies.
Get 11 million people to participate in actively disrupting ICE activities or striking then you are cooking. But it’s a start.
11 million civilians would overwhelm even the best guarded places on earth, let alone an ice raid.
Edit: to prove that point, 11 million people suddenly joining the Ukrainian army would overwhelm the entire front and could easily push them back to 2014 borders. And this is true regardless of logistics, which would become an issue later, but a surge of 11 million people would push so hard and so fast that even with a minimum loadout and just infantry, not including drones and logistics, just 11 million semi-trained people with small arms, and 7 magazines (standard us load) would so quickly overwhelm the Russians that any logistics (other than food and housing) would be mostly inconsequential. It would be THAT big and overwhelming… D-Day was ~160k.
And now I realize you might mean spread out over the country lol. 11 million people in an uproar in one city would be absolutely devastating.
No, this is the best use of 11 million people, it was perfect, beautiful and intimidatingly encompassing in the way only love can be.
Haha sure I meant across the country though, not in one place.
Get that number of people involved in a general strike that lasts a week or more and things will change in this country.
I’ve heard anywhere from 7 to 11 million.