On the eve of and well into the beginning of this new millennium I often saw something which I had not really noticed before.
Gigantic gatherings of people, often in protest or otherwise demonstrating but also in celebration and religious fervor.
I remember the first one, a protest against the WTO, now called “the Battle of Seattle” which took place in 1999. Other great gatherings were the colored revolutions in former soviet states in the early 2000’s, the worldwide protests against the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and the Khumb Mela festival in 2013 which drew 30 million people. I could only follow these events from a distance which led me to ask; What did these crowds actually look like?
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