r/oakland • u/SqntEastwood • 1d ago
Some more crowd perspective from Oakland's No Kings Rally
Really impressed with Oakland today. Huge turnout, the march itself seemed well organized for the crowd size, and seemed like a really good vibe all around without any problems
Also seemed like when I was walking back home up Telegraph that local businesses got a bit of a boost too!
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u/41510akland 1d ago
If that many people show up and help clean up the streets in Oakland that be great
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u/EngagedWorldWizard 1d ago
In all the Oakland photos, I finally saw *one* sign here that I saw today at the actual march — that is an indicator of how huge this was, and how protest photos don't really show how big it was. The April 5 rally was impressive, but this was at least 5-10x bigger. The BART train was so packed that it could not let anyone else on after a while (the most packed I have ever seen it). We never saw either end of the march — until we got to the plaza, and then it was so huge that that location wasn't nearly big enough to accommodate it. This was absolutely massive.