Anti-globalization protests at Evian drew 100-150 thousand demonstrators
Evidence
Meanwhile, between 100 and 150 thousand demonstrators gathered on both sides of the nearby French/Swiss border to hold their own countersummit in response to Evian’s great power deliberations. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117
Categorization
- CANDY: A tidy, tweetable number about the scale of a countersummit that presented itself as a serious rival to world-power deliberation.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117
- XREF: connects to: Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity; Mass protest against Belgian hijab bans drew over a thousand marchers — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 827; Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent
#exemplifies(0.74) - Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity
#exemplifies(0.72) - Mass protest against Belgian hijab bans drew over a thousand marchers
#exemplifies(0.71) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 827 - Globalized protest follows the same two-century-old demonstration routines
#exemplifies(0.71) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1269 - Protesters across continents shared identical experiential language despite different causes
#exemplifies(0.70) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 350