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Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2025
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I can't believe the size of that crowd. It's actually nerve wracking to think of that many people so close together, but good on them for showing how serious they are about ending support for this odious genocide.
The police getting them to turn around seemed like it risked crowd crush even more, but I'm no expert on crowd dynamics. It definitely looks like more than 100k people to me though.
There's no FOMO, there's no reward for continuing on when you the people in front of you slow down, or you've been told to turn around.
There's specific mentalities that contribute to crowd crush events and an organized peace march just doesn't have that.
Also not an expert, just hyper fixated on disasters for awhile and crowd crushes and similar "stampede" events were a solid week of videos, papers, and news articles.