There have been large protest events in the past, such as a 1982 anti nuclear protest in Central Park that drew a crowd of a million. There have also been protests spread across multiple cities, for example, protests over the War in Iraq that put 10 million people on the streets of cities around the world on a weekend in 2003.
The Women’s March has surpassed many famous events of the past, taking it’s place as one of the greatest protests in history. While media predictions may have seemed generous at the time …
On January 21, approximately 200,000 people will convene in Washington, DC to stand up for gender equality after Donald Trump's inauguration.
The actual event has turned out to be many times larger. The crowd in Washington, DC exceeded 500,000 by 9 AM, and the crowd in other cities may actually be larger.
The total number of people on the march in the US alone, may exceed 3 million, with many more marching around the world.
Rallies in many cities have spilled out of designated areas, and any “marching” has sometimes become symbolic as protesters completely filled the entire route of the march. In LA, the moster crowd swallowed block after block.
Some crowd sizes
15,000 March in Cleveland
60,000 in Minneapolis / St. Paul
22,000 in the March on Houston
100,000 in Denver (police estimate)
60,000 in Atlanta (police estimate)
40,000 in Austin (police estimate)
13,000 in St. Louis (police estimate)
70-100,000 in Portland, Oregon (estimates from police and organizers)
5-10,000 Augusta, Maine: (estimates from police and organizers)
Hill Street in LA
Independence Ave in Washington, DC
Bethel, Alaska, where the high today was -21 degrees.
