Promised Massive Protests Fail to Materialize During DNC, but Protesters Say They’re Still ‘Hopeful’

Despite early reports predicting tens of thousands of protesters over the Israel-Hamas war at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, the real numbers were markedly less. But the protesters themselves remained “hopeful” their message will reach the politicians in attendance.

To kick things off on Monday, Union Park was taken over by the March on the DNC Coalition, but there were less than ten thousand people in attendance. (Early reports suggested there would be somewhere...