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The '''Reason Rally 2016''' is a followup to the 2012 [[Reason Rally]]. Like the the original Reason Rally in 2012, it was held in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2012.
The '''Reason Rally 2016''' is a followup to the 2012 [[Reason Rally]]. Like the the original Reason Rally in 2012, it was held in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2012.
== Far smaller turnout than 2012 Reason Rally ==
Atheist [[Hemant Mehta]] wrote:
{{Cquote|But one of the storylines coming out of the event is that, compared to the ,,,people who showed up in 2012, this Rally brought together far fewer people...
That wasn’t supposed to happen. ...there was no rain this time around, and there were big-name celebrities on the speaking roster (though some of the most famous people on the list, including Johnny Depp, Margaret Cho, and [[Richard Dawkins]], couldn’t ultimately participate for a variety of reasons).
No official crowd estimates have been released. But even in the early afternoon, when the crowd was likely at its peak, nothing I saw suggested “[http://religionnews.com/2016/06/04/atheists-gather-on-the-mall-to-demonstrate-their-political-muscle/ 15,000 to 20,000]” in attendance, as the organizers told Religion News Service. I’d put the range at about half of that, but we’ll see.</ref>}}
== Reason Rally 2016 speakers and lack of satisfactory diversity ==
== Reason Rally 2016 speakers and lack of satisfactory diversity ==