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50501 Movement Fuels Anti-Trump Rallies Across the US: Live Updates (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We the people are speaking out at every capital in every state, today, now!

A growing movement opposing President Donald Trump's early actions is organizing protests across all 50 states on Wednesday.

What to Know:

The movement uses the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501 (50 protests, 50 states, one day).

Many demonstrations are planned at state capitols, while others will take place in major cities.

Flyers circulating online denounce Project 2025 and call for action against fascism and deportations.

Organizers, like Kelsey Brianne in Michigan, are mobilizing communities with grassroots efforts.

Protests have already begun, with thousands marching against deportation policies in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'll pose this (revised) question here because I think it might have better visibility.

instead of protesting at the capitals of our states -- why don't we protest at the HQs of the departments Musk is attacking?

lots of benefits

heightened on-site security
lots of witnesses
impenetrable wall of pissed-off Americans
attacking the administrations goals

I mean...has nobody thought of this yet?

it would at least slow the destruction down, and it's not like we don't know what these people look like.

just 24 hour, round-the-clock, protests to keep the jackals at bay. only badged people get in or out. like white blood cells fighting off an infection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

There have been protests at the buildings he's illegally occupying, but there's also so many tunnel systems in DC I'm sure they could get in there too. What we need is handcuffs of these rat fucks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

Next phase should probably be to protest at DC. Camp the fuck out there and strike as a nation until Dump is handled.

Take the 60s Civil Rights approach to this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago

The left's answer to the right's 1950s is the 1960s approach.

Learn from the Civil Rights movement.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The protests didn't make nearly any national news. Hope the next ones go better.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

That's because the news is controlled by the oligarchy. It's up to us to spread the word. Share as much content as you can!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean my news gave it a fair shot, but ultimately it was just about 50 people waving signs in the middle of a city where 50 people are not even a noticable increase of people usually on that street. I'd say my news was even being generous, by zooming in to try to make the "crowd" fill the screen, but there just wasn't enough to go on.

We have to face facts that this was a pretty poorly planned event. Someone thinks of going for it on January 25th and expects to organize a national protest in all 50 states with boots on the ground with less than two weeks total in the middle of a school/work day?

If this were, say, the first of a routine series of protests, ok, then over iterations it might have a chance to grow. If it was to be some overwhelming event, well you'll need more actual planning to get there. As a disorganized blast of thought for a one and done... it was not a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I think in general the American protest movement is really behind on ideas for what to do when the government doesn't want to listen. I've been to tons of "stand around and wave signs until change happens" protests, for BLM, migrants, LGBT people, healthcare, strike support, the only time the protest ever made any impact was when the march was in support of a strike.

Blocking up streets with protest works when it's being done to amplify the impact of a work stoppage, but just waving signs around on their own doesn't do anything, especially when the people you're protesting don't particularly want to placate the protestors.

And like, I get that "build a nationwide labor movement that can go on a general strike" as a step one for a protest is an impossible tall order, but we gotta face facts that just having a lot of people come out and wave signs around alone doesn't do anything, especially when the target of the protest really doesn't care that it's being protested.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Share where? All the platforms that you're implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs as well, or so sparsely populated you're going to only reach some absurdly small percent of the population.

I'm not trying to be a downer, it's better to be doing something than nothing, but if the oligarchs you're protesting own Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, AWS, etc, it just seems clear to me that if you can't rely on the news to report about it, you definitely can't rely on sharing to spread the word about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Share where? All the platforms that you're implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs

They can't catch every post and comment from every user.

Flood the zone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

They can and do catch every post. That's how centralized platforms work; their logging platforms literally do see every single thing that's posted, have alerting set up to monitor for trends in case something illegal or offensive to billionaires is trending.

They use algorithms and language models to draw summaries about trending posts, what they're about and why they're trending, and can make realtime adjustments to their algorithms to deprioritize posts and accounts they don't want to see trendIng anymore. They can analyze text, video, images, and audio in real time, and determine what the post is about, even if the title of the post is something intentionally misleading, and apply algorithms accordingly. That's literally why they invested so much in AI moderation tools and image generation and analysis.

[–] Birch 12 points 11 hours ago

The revolution will not be televised

[–] [email protected] 81 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (8 children)

The crowds would be much larger if most of us heard about this earlier than 11:58 am today. Absolute garbage organization for this one. I've marched in D.C. on more than one occasion and knew about the event at least a month in advance every time.

[–] AlecSadler 8 points 11 hours ago

Meta stifled posts about this.

But, unfortunately, I didn't see any on Mastodon or Bluesky (granted my circle there is smaller).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

This is a response to the rapid escalation of events since the inauguration which only occurred just over two weeks ago. Things are moving fast. The past week has been dizzying, by design.

There will likely be a lot of protests by many organizations that may be organized at the national level or locally until things change for the better, people give up, or people are stopped by the forces we need to protest against. Try to find protests and participate in the ones that you can.

edit: I'm not going to tell you what groups to organize with, but look into groups that organize locally and nationally.