Why are all these things thrown together with barely a few days notice?
They're not, but word isn't getting around fast enough so people find out late. Please help spread the word.
*I am not an organizer of this or any group. I'm just spreading info.
Why do these things on the weekdays and not on the weekends?
Your city hall/capital building is empty on the weekend
Won’t it be empty on Presidents Day, a fed holiday?
This one yes I suppose, I guess its more symbolic. But I do see this comment on every protest so thought I'd clarify
I'm not American, but I see a bunch of these popping out of nowhere here in Lemmy, nowhere else and they barely get any attention.
People really need to get organized better. Get some big names behind them and then organize these things.
The "big names" are mostly okay with what's happening.
While I appreciate the symbolism, the scheduled time is when most people outside of government have to work, while most people in government do not.
So we chose a time least convenient to protestors, to impress the people that aren't even there.
People have been picketing the Tesla dealership in San Francisco. That seems like a good place to target on Presidents Day, too.
Not only is he not a gorram king, far as I'm concerned, the orange turd no longer has any legitimacy even as president. What must a president elect do before they can have the authority of that office converted to them? Swear an oath. Violate that oath (and he very clearly has done so), and you abdicate the rights and privileges of the office. But, obviously, those with the ability to do something about it are lining up to kiss the ring instead. ಠ_ಠ
Anyway, that's my thoughts on the matter; we all should start declaring loudly that since he has violated his oath, he loses the mantle of authority.
It's not his ring they're kissing.
And it's not kissing either.
Since this post appears to be getting a fair amount of attention, here's a quick reminder:
- Do not gatekeep resistance
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?
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.
Is it weird that the whois information for that site has the registrant contact address in Iceland?
Harder for the US government to take it down I suppose?
That's just for the TLD .one fiftyfifty.one has its contact information private.
Thanks, that’s why I wanted to double check, I don’t know a whole lot about how website registration related stuff works.
Is there a simple list of demands?
Vive la résistance!
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".
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."
Resist: It's Time
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.
Rules
- Do not gatekeep resistance
- Do not organize specific subversive plans here.
- Do not identify yourself or anyone else here.
- Do brainstorm general ideas about how to support people who need it and stymie the efforts of fascists
- Do share thoughts on how to be personally prepared for subversive action