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400,000 marched in Washington DC against Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocide
(peoplesdispatch.org)
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Didn’t millions march against the Iraq War? We losing steam.
A year ago, it would be a marvel if 1000 people showed up to a Palestine rally. Now, a rally can be called and 400k people turn out. 300k was the largest Palestine rally some weeks ago in US history, and this is even larger.
The protests for Palestine have also persisted for over two months now, similar to the 2020 George Floyd protests. They may be slowing some, but they are still happening. If anything, people are likely being recruited into actual organizational and educational work and finding sustainable levels of involvement, which while less sexy, is on the whole more crucial than chanting in the street.
I wonder how much of it is more regional (i.e. say at present the number marching/protest are similar and they are distributed rather than concentrated, I'd need to see rough total counts for time periods to get a good idea, stuff the appropriate authorities have I'm sure...)
It isn't that we are losing steam. Just the Amerikkkans are so inundated with shit news about the world that everyone has become jaded, cynical, exhausted, and desensitized that the energy for protests has fizzled.
The cynicism is so deep I truly suspect that if I ran for prez on a platform which consisted of promising ending the world by nuclear fire, promising nothing else, I'd stand a chance at election.