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Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive tariffs that are stoking fears of global economic turmoil to his administration’s immigration crackdowns.

In the United States, organizers framed this year’s International Workers’ Day protests as a pushback against what they see as the administration’s sweeping assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees. Protesters lined streets in many cities from New York to Philadelphia to Los Angeles and held a boisterous rally outside the White House in Washington.

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[-] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago

Where are people getting news in advance of these protests happening? I feel like I keep finding out afterwards. I would like to attend! I mean I have stopped using most social media but even my friends/family that haven't don't seem to know either

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 20 points 1 day ago

I usually start with The Big List of Protests, where a lot of stuff gets cross-posted. Political revolution gets the 50501 protests and some other stuff (note that the site has had connectivity issues when but protests are upcoming and we in the outside aren't sure if that's bandwidth issues, hardware/software limitations, or sabotage. If you see an upcoming protest that looks possible, screenshot it just in case you can't look it up later.] Indivisible runs their own calendar (they have connections with the Democrats, so I wouldn't use my real contact info with them unless you want you start getting mailers and begging letters), and there's also No Voice Unheard.

50501 on reddit recently had some kind of moderator drama (idk i heard about it in passing). The original moderators have a new sub at /r/50501movement, but /r/50501 is still active and I'm not sure how many people know or care about the difference. Depending on how active it is, you may be better off using your state or regional 50501 subreddit anyway.

If you can't make a protest, or don't want to, you can start with Five Calls, which lists current events or upcoming votes to talk to your Congresscritters about. They suggest choosing one topic each day and making one set of calls every day, but any calls you can make are important. Apparently they're semi-ignoring emails and letters, as so many of them can be brigaded, but they're still paying attention to phone calls - possibly because the constant ringing is annoying. [If you end up in voicemail, try calling one of the local state offices for your Congresscritter.] If they hold one that you can get to, to go a town hall so they can see lots of angry faces.

I will note that one reason the Republicans have had so much influence over their Congresscritters is that, apparently in the past, they got 4 phone calls from Republicans for every one phone call from a Democrat. I'm not sure where the math currently stands. If you have any connection with the Congresscritter, mention that: "I worked on/volunteered for/donated to their campaign" (even if it was decades ago), etc. If not, try for some other connection: "I've voted for your party my entire life", "I live in [member's] home town/office town", "They were wonderful and helped me with this problem years ago", whatever you can think of.

If you are calling, this one's important: if they do something you approve of, call or write and let them know that as well! No one's going to like getting yelled at all the time, and we can give them both positive and negative reinforcement. So if Cory Booker or Hakeem Jeffries or anytime else does something noticable you approve of (the sit-in, the filibuster, whatever) call and thank them, even if they're not your Congresscritter, then call your Congresscritter, tell them how impressed you were with the other guy's actions, and ask them to support your cause-of-the-day.

There are a lot more resources out there, and many more things you can do to help, but those are the ones I'd start with.

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 3 points 20 hours ago

Thank you for pointing out Five Calls. I've been feeling guilty about not attending protests but I'm just not built for them. I read this post today at work and saved it. I made three calls after work and will make two more.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 10 hours ago

If you'd like to pressure your Congresscritter in a less-specific but more obstructive way, tell them you'd like to see them doing more of this kind of thing.

[-] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Wonderful post. Thanks. I use 5calls as it makes me anxious to make these types of calls. The format and guide help immensely. I mostly get the voicemail, but on occasion I get an empathetic intern (D).

Cory Booker gets kudos after his speech and I applauded him for it. Unfortunately, he voted against limiting arms sales to Israel shortly thereafter. That earns him condemnation. Two calls.

I keep calling my reps and encouraging them to publicly stand up to this regime. I've now incorporated my governor into the call rotation, too. I really struggle with the business as usual approach being shown and desire more. We need more from our representatives (D or R). Please call and tell them so.

[-] SpaceRanger13@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

This organization seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting for the protest.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

There are several communities on Lemmy that mirror information from reddit about it if you search 50501 on here.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

I mean you have to be a bit plugged in. Im not sure if news communities will take down one talking ahead of time but its not really news till it happens. !50501@piefed.social is the place to go when your part of the federation.

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