{"id":179298,"date":"2018-03-27T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/27\/we-now-have-the-numbers-for-the-march-for-our-lives-march\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:35:00","slug":"we-now-have-the-numbers-for-the-march-for-our-lives-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/27\/we-now-have-the-numbers-for-the-march-for-our-lives-march\/","title":{"rendered":"We Now Have the Numbers for the March for Our Lives March"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have the counts, and it’s more than one million people nationwide<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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At least a million Americans poured into the streets on Saturday to participate in the hundreds of March for Our Lives events across the nation.<\/p>\n

A review by The Hill of official crowd estimates, offered by city administrations and police departments across the country, found nearly a million total protestors across 62 of the nation\u2019s 100 largest cities. More than three dozen cities where marches were held on Saturday did not offer official crowd sizes, though local media outlets reported thousands or tens of thousands of marchers in those cities.Police and city officials counted more than 200,000 marchers<\/a> at the largest demonstration, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Another 175,000 people took to the streets<\/a> in Manhattan, according to New York City police.<\/p>\n

Officials in Chicago counted 85,000 demonstrators<\/a>, and the march in Los Angeles brought out another 55,000 people<\/a>. In Boston, 50,000 people took to the streets<\/a>, and 30,000 people joined in both Atlanta<\/a> and Pittsburgh<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In Parkland, Fla., the site of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School school shooting, 20,000 people demonstrated \u2014 although many of the students from the school itself were participating in the march in Washington. A hockey team from the high school was participating in a tournament in the Twin Cities, where police estimated 18,000 demonstrators marched<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good job, youngsters.<\/p>\n

More of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have the counts, and it’s more than one million people nationwide: At least a million Americans poured into the streets on Saturday to participate in the hundreds of March for Our Lives events across the nation. A review by The Hill of official crowd estimates, offered by city administrations and police departments across the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,397,531,374,590,582],"class_list":["post-179298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-education","tag-gun-laws","tag-politics","tag-protests","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}