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No Kings Event Map: https://www.nokings.org/#map
Find one near you, write down the address and time, and head out tomorrow. (You don't have to sign up for anything, all you need is the address).
Recommended that you bring a mask, hat, water and snacks. Safety Goggles or Glasses would also be a good idea if you have them.
Bring a sign or the US Flag if you have one.
For privacy reasons you may want to avoid bringing your phone, or place it inside a faraday bag (a really well sealed tinfoil pouch will work, and put it in airplane mode to avoid draining your battery) until you get home.
If you have a first aid kit, it wouldn't hurt to bring it, just in case.
Before anyone does, don’t register for these events (I’ve seen people do this), and don’t sign up.
This is officially fascism and they will get these lists. Just go, leave your phone at home, wear an athletic cup if you have junk to protect, bring milk for pepper spray, and if you’re detained, you become a Pokémon named Lawyer.
On the other hand https://youtu.be/kz58-dvAiCM bring your family, kids and don't let others make it violent. Bring an American flag (those fascist don't represent it) I've been attending those weekly and they are very peaceful and mostly full of seniors (which is sad, because younger generation has the most to lose from this).
If those protests suddenly turn violent after those months it will be because planted agitators.
Or bring whatever flag you want.
Yes, I agree with all of this. A major reason the civil rights movement in the 60s was effective was because the majority of regular people couldn’t stomach seeing police brutality against peaceful protestors, so the movement became mainstream.
Images like this mobilised people:
https://www.fayobserver.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/02/23/photos-civil-rights-movement/67651355007/
But still, leave your phone at home, bring milk, wear a cup, and don’t talk if they arrest you.
I’m not advocating for violence, but safety – and this is doubly important if you bring your kids.
e: and for any defeatists, note that smaller protests had been happening for many years prior to that photo. Community, then city, then state, then national protests happened for years before the big protests that could no longer be ignored. This is not a one-and-done thing, and adding your support helps exponentially. Just paying attention at this point is helping, but we need to do more now because people are dying at a much higher rate already, and it’s about to get far worse.
I think the world has changed since the 1960s. People not only stomach violence, they get off on watching it.
A big reason for these protests is reminding to world that there are many Americans who aren't getting off on rising fascist violence.
i mean the Roman coliseum was a thing a few thousand years ago
I feel that these MAGA people are thirsty for seeing people getting beaten up though.
Are you bringing kids?
Sounds risky, the facist police will take the kids from you and charge you for child engagement while shooting you with their heavy rubber ammo
I was always jealous of the kids whose families went with them to activism. Had a black math teacher in 10th grade take his young child son to KKK rally "so he can see the faces of the men who hate him," and that stuck with me. My parents supported me, and as children of veterans, share my views and love for what America is supposed to be about striving towards, but simple blue collar union Americans - not hippies or anything.
These days, so different. I dont even want to risk it on my own for fear of being taken from my kid.
I've been attending those weekly. They are very peaceful.
Depends where you are maybe. Saw LAPD hold down a guy to get ran over by a police horse(with officer riding) and then a car rolling towards until the camera cut off as the car was near the guy held down.
That one is the ICE protest that is in downtown and started last week because trump started raiding workplaces.
I'm taking about those Hands Off and the No Kings protests. Those were planned long before. Big ones were on April 5, April 19 and the biggest today. But people are still coming and protesting weekly.
Yeah I would stay away from downtown for now, looks like LAPD does everything to escalate and then use large force because "they had no choice". Even today they still escalated.