BRYAN FARRELL – Where do you look for hope in dark times? Longtime organizer and author L.A. Kauffman looks to a chart she keeps on her wall that tracks how many people have participated in protests since January 2017. Right now that number is upwards of 21.5 million. “It’s part of my organizing geekdom,†she says. But it’s also the best visual reminder of a fact that’s easily overlooked: We are living in a time of unprecedented protest.