York PA today. Amazing to see multi day protests continuing at this strength in PA's midsize cities in traditionally conservative counties...
👇Bloomsburg, also today
More than 100 marchers. Latrobe, Monday latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/pro…
King of Prussia mall, today. 👀 philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/02/pro…
Carbondale, PA, Sunday evening. Over 100 protestors, intoning "I can't breathe" 15 times, to mourn demand justice for George Floyd news.wsiu.org/post/protester…
Student planned protest Quakertown today: cancelled after intimidation. “People on Q Neighborhood Assoc wanted names for this UNNECESSARY protest so here they are... Starter of the protest: Democrat & BLM supporter, & Jews for Radical & Economic Justice"👀 sauconsource.com/2020/06/02/qua…
Lock Haven PA: 200 people Monday! lockhaven.com/news/local-new…
Update: today was *Day 4* of protests at King of Prussia
"Hundreds" join protest in Stroudsburg, Monday night: after there had already been one protest there Friday wnep.com/article/news/l…
All of this in addition to the 30+ PA cities & towns where protests were held over the weekend, tallied here:
Wait, finding more. 100 people in Carlisle PA Saturday cumberlink.com/news/local/com…
Punxatawney PA, Monday afternoon: local students protest in support of Black Lives Matter; passing cars honk support punxsutawneyspirit.com/content/peacef…
This article reports protests in Bradford PA, Olean NY, and Wellsville NY: & makes me wonder how many more rural region protests we will never hear about bc their local papers have folded...
oleantimesherald.com/news/leaders-o…
oleantimesherald.com/news/leaders-o…
Whoa: 1,500 people in Easton PA on Sunday👀 lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/2020/0…
"Several hundred" protesting in support of Black Lives Matter on the courthouse steps in West Chester today dailylocal.com/news/hundreds-…
Huntingdon PA, WOW. (Hilary Clinton barely cleared 24% of the vote in this county). facebook.com/huntingdondems/ 
.@djpressman just pointed me to this amazing thread. From Waynesboro PA, pop. ~10,000. Donald Trump got 71% of the vote in Franklin County. Stop & read the whole thing
Sunday: local police take a knee alongside protestors in Pottstown PA pottsmerc.com/news/peaceful-…
Sunday: Dozens of hold signs supporting Black Lives Matter, Justice&Peace, along parkway in Montgomery Township thereporteronline.com/news/hate-does…
Meadville PA (pop 13,000). Must-read essay by the high school senior who organized: + video fr protest itself ❤️ thepantherpressdotcom.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/col…
An 8th grader has planned a protest for tomorrow for Indiana PA; a second peace vigil & memorial for George Floyd will be held there Sunday indianagazette.com/news/local/two…
With thanks to @HolmesElections here is video link: 500 people in Bloomsburg Tuesday. Did media emphasis on violence/"riots" over weekend make protesting in support of #BlackLivesMatter toxic in PA? In place after place I see evidence to the contrary. wnep.com/article/news/l…
Further evidence: Montgomery County GOP commissioner Joe Gale's statement claiming #BLM incites "urban domestic terror"👇 has drawn broad condemnation, with a protest against *him* now planned for Norristown Thursday patch.com/pennsylvania/n…
Yet tensions over who can lead in this moment are real, & sharper in some places than others. Striking reporting here from Johnstown, where a "unity" event led by NAACP and police is replacing the Justice4George rally a community member had initiated tribdem.com/news/in-wake-o…
Mind. Blown. Pleasant Hills (southern Pgh suburbs), now
(For context. Hillary Clinton got 2,100 votes in Pleasant Hills in 2016. Donald Trump got 2,475. It is not a liberal place.)
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But then there is this in, from Vandergrift: 19-year-old organizer got permit, arranged for police to join in solidarity. Then Fb community page posts started threatening bloodshed... wpxi.com/news/top-stori…
And yet. Two local teens organize a protest in Wilkes-Barre and hundreds show up for Black Lives Matter. On Wednesday. Watch the interviews: these kids are amazing wnep.com/article/news/l…
And, also Wednesday evening: 100 people at a church in Stroud Township gather in vigil for George Floyd wnep.com/article/news/l…
Also Wednesday, also church vigil: 500 gather to mourn George Floyd and others and demand change, in East Liberty, Pittsburgh triblive.com/local/pittsbur…
Hundreds gather in Lebanon PA: happening now
Three dozen people gathered in Slippery Rock yesterday (A separate protest is planned for Grove City this afternoon)
For the record: today marked the 6th straight day in which several hundred people or more protested in the name of George Floyd & in support of #BlackLivesMatter in Pittsburgh livingpgh.com/news/protester…
Amazing interactive map by @elizhardison of @PennCapitalStar of the 48 anti-police brutality protests she's found so far in PA. Reporting on the full range of communities engaging in this moment is a mirror we need
public.flourish.studio/visualisation/…
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Speechless. Huge gathering (100? more?) to honor and mourn George Floyd's last moments. Protest held today in Grove City PA, pop 8,000. In Trump+24 Mercer County
Souderton PA. Pop. 6,700. Montgomery County.
Saxonburg PA, pop 1,500. Butler County. Small group gathered to protest on Wednesday in the face of what seem to have been pretty vicious prior rumors. butlerradio.com/local-proteste…
170 people in Indiana PA, despite advance rumors that outsiders would be bussed in. "Workers & passers-by snapped photos of the marchers, applauded them or raised their fists in solidarity with their protest of police brutality and oppression of blacks." indianagazette.com/social/black-l…
170 people in Indiana PA, despite advance rumors that outsiders would be bussed in. "Workers & passers-by snapped photos of the marchers, applauded them or raised their fists in solidarity with their protest of police brutality and oppression of blacks." indianagazette.com/social/black-l…
Hundreds protested today in Honesdale PA, pop 4500, Wayne County. (Orig. cancelled due to online threats; then back on.) These interviews! wnep.com/article/news/l…
Meanwhile, all those communities ^^ where social media rumors claimed busses full of agitators planned to arrive & do crimes? Not just a PA thing: & likely sped by intentional disinfo campaign. (Not that we're not capable of being paranoid on our own...) nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…
How did I miss this, from Sunday? ~50 people protest in Aliquippa PA (beautiful photos from Rustbelt Mayberry Photography facebook.com/pg/RustbeltMay…
Correction, ~75 people in Aliquippa on Sunday. timesonline.com/news/20200531/…
... and, wish I were surprised, Ambridge business owner called in private militia over rumors that protestors from Aliquippa were going to cross the bridge into Ambridge beavercountian.com/content/busine…
A handful of Ambridge residents went ahead and protested regardless: ambridgeconnection.com/local-news/may…
This also happened Thursday! Many hundreds marched from Wayne to Paoli. Organized by newly founded group, Main Line for Black Lives patch.com/pennsylvania/r…
And this was Tuesday, in Boyertown (pop 4000): hundreds join protest in support of Black Lives Matter berksmontnews.com/news/hundreds-…
And this was Wednesday, from an anonymous tiny PA town: a one-woman protest attracts 20 fellow protestors. (please consider submitting location to crowdcounting.org, @rubyjnkie?)
400 people came out to protest in Doylestown on Monday, after a much smaller one in the same place on Saturday. patch.com/pennsylvania/d…
50 marched in Johnstown Wednesday, after a much larger planned march was cancelled in the face of rumors and threats. tribdem.com/news/marchers-…
Pittsburgh right now: 200+ protestors
Renewd protests Thurs in Bethlehem (~1000) & Allentown (100s). As in many cities, protestors linked George Floyd to local victim of abuse/impunity: "Alphie Herrera, Bethlehem man died after becoming unresponsive while shackled in Lehgh County Jail in 2013" mcall.com/news/breaking/…
Brownsville PA, pop 2,200, in Fayette County. Today Friday
Catasauqua PA, pop 6,500, Lehigh County, today Friday. 200 people marched in support of Black Lives Matter mcall.com/news/breaking/…
More here from Catasauqua PA, where local high school students organized 100s to show up in support of #BlackLivesMatter today
Camp Hill, today: one week after Harrisburg protest over killing of George Floyd ended with pepper spray, police violence & arrests. Camp Hill is across the river & 4 mi./a world away: so striking that news coverage of "riots" did not hijack the narrative
*1000 people*? joined local NAACP-organized protest march in Yardley, Bucks County, Thursday patch.com/pennsylvania/y…
Video from Yardley yesterday
Also really appreciated this👇: calling out contradictions likely pervasive across the #BLM #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd protests in mostly comfortable, mostly white suburbs...
Missed this! Protest against racism & police violence in Dubois PA, pop 8000 last Sunday. Click thru to Facebook post on protest, with intensely wide range of views in comments. But it matters that folks know they're debating w/others in their own towns... connectradio.fm/2020/06/01/pro…
Clearfield PA today! pop 6000. ~100 people protested theprogressnews.com/news/local/pea… wjactv.com/news/local/pro…
Also today! Hundreds walked seven miles from Williamsport to Montoursville to protest the killing of George Floyd. Organized by local black HS student (as true of so many similar places). Great interviews👇 wnep.com/article/news/l…
Also today! In Ridgway PA, pop 4,000, Elk County. "BLM Peaceful Support & Protest." Looks like 50+ people in attendance? facebook.com/events/9585280…
Also today! 300 people in Scranton PA wnep.com/video/news/loc…
Note that Scranton had already seen a 600 person protest on Wednesday (amazing photos here) ... nepascene.com/2020/06/photos…
... and more than 100 people protest last Saturday... fox56.com/news/local/doz…
250 people in Milford, Pike County, on Wednesday
