Since this post appears to be getting a fair amount of attention, here's a quick reminder:
All efforts, large and small, are appropriate and necessary, and we're not going to see any real change for a very long time.
Anyone think these scattered recent attempts at protest might be astroturfed by the right and the listed website might be a trap to create a mailing list of targets for the right to monitor?
Need clarity on organizers and money behind these protests and if any established groups like DSA, Indivisible, ETC. are attached.
Edit: A bit more potentially from USA Today. So next question is if anyone knows Kay Evert directly and can speak to their legitimacy in the space? Trust, but verify - We don't need to fight within our own movement, but we also don't need to follow anyone blindly.
Pretty sure DSA isn't involved, my local chapter also had the same concerns as it's not super clear who is organizing it.
https://fiftyfifty.one/ is from r/50501 on reddit.
Of course, everything has risk, but I don't personally find that group to be problematic.
Respectfully, your comment continues to say nothing about who is behind it and where the money comes from... WHAT group of people don't you find to be problematic, and based on what? Who are the people that you don't have a problem with?
You just linked a subreddit... on Lemmy?
50501 successfully organized the 50 state capitol protests the other day, and those got at least some news coverage. That was a good thing. If attending an event is unsuitable for you, there are other ways to resist. Me, I'm certainly already on more than one list, so being associated with a protest doesn't change anything.
By comparison, I did some looking into a group called "American Opposition," and my feeling about that is that it's one small potatoes movie and TV actor trying to pull some sort of hustle.
In any event, I don't believe you have to identify yourself to show up at a protest.
From the article you linked in your edit:
The 50501 moderators also partnered with Political Revolution, a PAC and volunteer-only activist organization founded out of the conclusion of Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign in 2016.
The 50501 movement and Political Revolution said in a joint press release they are calling for the removal or resignation of President Donald Trump, investigations into his administration appointees including Elon Musk, the repeal of "oppressive" executive orders and the restoration of diversity, equity and inclusion frameworks.
They've been around since 2017. There's surely a bunch more information about them than about 50501, and they're "vouching" for 50501.
Protest you say?
Remember when they beat the shit out of protesters, shot or jailed them and slapped insane charges on them? Simply because they protested genocide? O how we miss those days, such a democracy it was.
Well when shit eventually boils over, at least we can point back and say, "we tried to ask nicely."
typography note: you should say "not" and follow with strikethrough. they both do the same thing and together they imply the opposite, like you wanted to say "not we the billionaires" and changed your mind. now the message says "we the people not".
Is there any evidence this has happened? Looking at any news source at all.
Today is the 16th.
We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
The French Resistance during Nazi occupation played important roles delivering downed Allied airmen back to safety, supplying military intelligence, and acts of sabotage.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have brought 100,000 freedom seekers to safety between 1810 and 1850.
It's time.
