just saying, this seems really sketchy folks.

some tips to help you out

• don’t take your phones to the protest
• if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
• don’t take anything that could identify you as you
• superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
• write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
• stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
• don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
• designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).

pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.

ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.

know your rights. bring the proof of your rights. force them to acknowledge your rights.

stream everything.

if you are picked up you will;

• go on a list
• be unlawfully monitored
• become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers

you will go dark for at least a month. no social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. after that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.

if you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.

one last thing.

there will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.

trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵

As a Brit looking in, America is a mess

if it’s not the start of a general strike idgaf. a single day of protests works about as well as blacking out a subreddit.

Everyone just call in sick. Say it is because you didn’t want any vaccines.

I feel like the issue is with our fellow citizens who voted for him and the congressmen/woman. You can protest all you want but they’ll keep getting elected.

Love a protest in the middle of the workday, should be easy for most people to attend, no?

I think it’s gonna be one of those things that’s supposed to be a thing, but isn’t a thing.

But I’m not going to shit all over someone’s attempt to make a difference if it’s based on genuine good effort and intention.

What is the objective here? Are we asking for something specific or just yelling in frustration into the void?

From what I can see about it, the organisers are some reddit mods. The person who started it was reddit.com/u/Evolved_Fungi. The subreddit is r/50501 and their bluesky is https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social.

A lot of people don’t know about it, its gotten almost no attention from the media, that I have noticed. All I have found is one newsweek article https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300

Can’t wait for all the pictures of these events with half a dozen people standing around looking lost.

This will be too short notice and too expensive for many to attend. Generalstrikeus.com has the right idea

Don’t start protesting on a week day. Protest on the weekend to get a show of force. If demands are not met, follow it up with a general strike for your next protest.

People will be more willing to join in strike action if they know they are not alone.

5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump’s team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn’t vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn’t going to happen.

I’m all for protest but I don’t think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.

I’m not American or a resident of US but that’s just my opinion as an outsider.

How the fuck can you fuck up a protest plan this badly??? Is this intentional sabotage for an effective turn out? Fucking idiots.

I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.

I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you’ve got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you’ve got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I’m sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.