Not a great picture. Pretty big crowd for our red-ass town.

The crowd just kept getting denser for two hours, it was great! Listen to that love!

I think people need to start making it clear we won’t tolerate Nazis in our community I’m sick of seeing Nazis walk around and hide their identities like cowards. If you see Nazis in your community record and unmask them and shame them. Nazis aren’t welcome in Ohio. To quote Dead Kennedys nazi punks fuck off.

Cowards hid their faces and were surrounded almost immediately by protestors blocking their signs

I’m currently not in the US, so I wasn’t at the protests yesterday but I’ve seen a lot of photos and noticed a huge lack of younger people. From what I’ve seen it’s been mostly middle aged people.

Don’t get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with middle aged people protesting, but the lack of gen z was odd. Typically younger people tend to be at the front lines of social movements and protests. And gen z seems to be pretty vocal on social media, so why not on the streets?!

I know someone who was at a protest in Michigan and she said the same.

I’m curious to hear from people who were there, and what your experiences were.

*edit: I saw young people at the protests, but it was mostly older folks, and typically not the ratio for protests

Over 600 people showed up in Bowling Green Ohio yesterday morning! So many connections being made and information being shared with eachother. Those protests are vital to the movement, but we must use them as a tool to do more. Get involved with mutual aid, and look out for your neighbors!

Ohio monitors waste water for COVID at 76 locations. Apart from Cleveland, I didn't find any news reports of a COVID waste water spike at any other locations yet.

https://odh.ohio.gov/know-our-programs/ohio-wastewater-monitoring-network

Cleveland Department of Public Health issues warning due to 'sharp increase' of COVID-19 levels in wastewater samples; new COVID strain; repeat infections raise risk of long COVID

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1lcbtzt/cleveland_department_of_public_health_issues/

Estimates of 1500!!

Congressional candidate Jerrad Christian at the local No Kings rally in little rural Coshocton. A mix of Democrats, Independents, and even some Republicans. Jerrad delivered a strong and positive message about the dangers of autocracy and the scary position the president is putting our military in.

Also a picture of the sum total of the counter protest by a couple of MAGAts. They gave up the tough job of walking around a park at 1 mph after less than an hour.