The Unprecedented Scale of the #BlackLivesMatter Protests
"It's plain that the protests are the broadest in terms of scope since the Occupy protests in 2011. They could even be the largest since the Iraq War demonstrations in 2003. Ultimately, it may be impossible to measure the scale of the protests today with respect to the protests in the U.S. of the last decade.
"Decentralized demonstrations mark a difference between protests today and protests from major moments of civic unrest in the recent past. Like the Occupy protests, the actions today are widespread across the nation. But unlike those actions, today's are not clustered around any single focal points (such as Zuccotti Park). An estimated 10,000 protesters assembled in Foley Square last night, a larger gathering than almost any Occupy Wall Street action, and that was just one of the localized demonstrations in New York.
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2014/12/the-unprecedented-scale-of-the-blacklivesmatter-protests/383461/
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Black Lives Matter. Latino Lives Matter. Native American Lives Matter. Et cetera. If everyone in power understood this, don't you agree that this country would be a rather better place? 
