How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance - L. A. Kauffman (2018)


"Displaced from the National Mall by a partial government shutdown and facing the likelihood of harsh weather, the third Women's March on Washington, D.C., may well draw an even smaller turnout than the presidential inauguration did two years ago. On the other hand, the first march, that same weekend, remains a difficult act to follow. L. A. Kauffman's recent book How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance (University of California Press) contains a table called 'Marching Everywhere: The Largest Coordinated Protests in U.S. History,' with data on eight of them from the past 50 years. The National Women's March of January 2017 sets the record, with at least 4.2 million participants in more than 650 cities. That is more than twice the number of participants, in more than three times as many cities, as the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam in October 1969. ..."
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Women protest against the Trump administration’s separation of children from immigrant parents, in the Hart Senate office building in Washington.

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