Hundreds of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague on Sunday to demand more action against the “genocide” in Gaza.
NGOs such as Amnesty International, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), and Oxfam organized the demonstration, which ran through the city to the International Court of Justice. The protesters were all dressed in red, creating a “red line”.
Organisers described it as the country’s largest demonstration in two decades. Many waving Palestinian flags and some chanting “Stop the Genocide”, the demonstrators turned a central park in the city into a sea of red on a sunny afternoon.
Why We’re Organizing No Kings Protests on Saturday–A king is only a king if we bow down
https://www.howwefightback.com/p/why-were-organizing-no-kings-protests
If the numbers of 4-6 million are true then less than 2% of Americans showed up. The pictures of big crowds was impressive, but that’s not enough. To the outside world, it looks like you have bowed down.
Take inspiration from this protest in The Netherlands and chastise your neighbours, your colleagues, your friends and family, to march, or this time next year America may just be a fully fledged fascist state with no personal freedom.
150,000 is 0.8% of the population of the Netherlands, and isolated to a single location. The American protests were far bigger, so I don’t know what you want them to learn from this.
For an issue that doesn’t effect the Dutch. And yet they still showed up in solidarity, because they have principles, and understand that to live in a democratic country means taking responsibility for its politics and not just voting every 4-5 years.
Americans are being kidnapped, assassinated, and having entire departments shut down, and their turnout isn’t much better than the Dutch outraged at what’s happening another continent away.
I want them to learn that if they want change they need to do something, instead of giving every excuse under the sun as to why they couldn’t show up as has been done in other threads.
This is a good start I guess, but it hasn’t done anything to stop Trump and co yet. They need to pump those numbers up.
4-6 million isn’t much better than 150,000? If we go by percentages of the population, it’s more than 3 times higher. If we go by numbers of attendees, it’s something like 30x higher. Also, remember that American college campuses have been protesting this since it began, often resulting in students getting expelled or deported. Sorry that’s not good enough for you.
1.18 - 1.76% of Americans showed up to protest fascism in their own country.
0.82 - 1.09% of Dutch showed up to protest genocide thousands of miles away.
If you can’t understand how there’s a difference here, between standing up for yourself and standing up for others, I don’t know what else to say.
Two percent of the population is actually pretty huge. Historically, 3.5% has been the threshold after which change has almost always happened.
Less than 2%. So at the moment, by your threshold, no change. America is still on the path of fascism.
What country are you from?
Not that it’s relevant, but Scotland. A country that is quite good at telling fascists and racists to fuck off.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nigel-farages-previous-visits-to-scotland-arrests-protests-and-fleeing-from-royal-mile-pub-5147584
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/solidarity-in-an-image-glasgow-protesters-halt-deportation-of-two-members-of-their-community-269408/
A country that is welcoming to LGBT people and immigrants.
https://www.gov.scot/policies/lgbti/
https://www.gov.scot/publications/migration-helping-scotland-prosper/
A country, that despite being under the thumb of a colonial power, has still managed to gain its own parliament and enact progressive policies that Westminster opposes.
How? By fucking yelling from the streets! By not accepting what our supposed superiors tell us and demanding better.
FYI, the number ranges from 6 million to 13 million. People were yelling and one even needed a 4 hour surgery to fix his eye from being shot with a rubber bullet. Why aren’t you congratulating the huge number that did come out instead of spreading your negativity around? I guess I’ve heard your ballads, so that might explain some of that.
FYI, Americans prefer kudos over anger when they do something great.
The original numbers were 4-6 million, it’s only recently been corrected to 13 million by some sources.
4-6 million is pathetic. 13 million is a lot better.
Of course I’m negative when it looks like less than 2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to oppose fascism.
Well done for finally waking up, but you haven’t done great yet. Keep going. Until Trump and his ilk are gone you haven’t achieved anything but let off some steam.
Keep up the momentum!
Is that better? 🥕🥕🥕🥕
Nope, but at least you’re trying.
Edit: Remember, a huge number of people that would protest have either been deported or are afraid of being deported. We’re dealing with the baddies after all.