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lol, as though I’ve been watching or reading the news for the last three weeks
Fair enough lol.
How do people even hear about protests in order to participate? I really hope it's not Facebook.
I saw signs around Portland for a January 21 protest. From what I've heard, it was a lot smaller than what Portland saw in 2017. It's hard to read the tea leaves on why that is.
Completely ignored by all UK media but the Guardian.
The only thing I saw was a youtube video with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog from The Daily Show at an anti-Trump rally on the 20th.
It was on CBS six days ago on Jan 18th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE2F7n9OVU
It mostly focuses on the US women's march, but it does make brief mention of ongoing worldwide protests, without really discussing them. The Chyron focuses its message on the "worldwide" aspect of it through the whole story, however.
EDIT:
Here it is on CNN on January 21st:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-women-march-on-washington/index.html
The Women’s March extended beyond the United States, as similar protests cropped up around the world over women’s rights and other issues the marchers fear could be under threat from Donald Trump’s presidency.
Although the focus of the day was the Women’s March on Washington, many people attended the hundreds of “sister marches” that occurred around the US and the globe.
People are checked out my dudes. Women's march was expecting 50k and 5k showed, I think people are broken and losing hope.
Which is fair, these media organizations failed us miserably and continue to fail us miserably for not being able to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute, which calls into question what little is left of their credibility. So yeah people are checked out while this is happening and being covered.
I honestly wouldn't upvote if I did see it. Sure, the people participating might feel good about it and I'm glad they are there but the whole, march around and protest thing, feels like slipping a note into an unchecked suggestion box.
Sent this to my mother, who probably thinks I’m full of hyperbole when I talk about how we’re seen around the world.
Most of these pictures are from NYC and DC, bar a few from London, Brussels, Panama, and the US Embassy in Mexico
I'm starting to think is community is actually a bunch of refugees from Twitter.
I mean there were a bunch of posters about it all over my neighborhood
BBC Mentioned the one in Washington but it was just as an add on when explaining that it was too cold for trump to have it outside. Doesn't really matter how big the protests were in America as they literally voted for it.
No but also I don't really care? What did their protests accomplish before?
Havent heard about this either. But I live in Switzerland, so I'am quite confident the newssites and agencies were occupied with covering all the shit that went down during inauguartion and the few days before and after it. Plus our Europe and National and Regional news. So I am not really surprised to missing it.
This was not hidden here in the pnw. There was a protest that walked by my house. Joined in for a bit
No, I saw an article about it. It was just overshadowed by Elon.
I heard NPR gloss over it, just mentioning that the number a protesters seem to have been less than the last time.
It didn't really give any estimate as to the number of people where they were at what their issues were. They didn't interview any of them, they gave it like maybe 5 to 10 seconds.
I knew it was happening but not a word about it beyond that reached my ears (blue state, USA). Was straight up bullshit