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Blog of the Crowd Counting Consortium
Tracking the Growth of Active Clubs A couple of days ago, NPR ran a piece on the recent growth in the U.S. of Active Clubs, “a strand of the white nationalist movement that emphasize[s] mixed martial arts training to ready their members for violence against their perceived enemies.”
We can see this growth in Crowd Counting Consortium’s (CCC) data on U.S. protest activity. So far, CCC has logged 27 protest events in which at least one group with “Active Club” in the name has participated. As the map below shows, these events have spanned the country. We see clusters of events in the Pacific Northwest, California, Tennessee, and the Mid-Atlantic, but Active Clubs have also organized or participated in protests in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Alabama, Ohio, and Virginia.
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