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There’s a protest planned for today near you. If you’d like to attend below is a bit of info.
Some more media mentions, mostly local and brief:
- Fox 9 St Paul (MN): https://www.fox9.com/news/50-states-50-protests-feb-5-2025
- KVRR North Dakota: https://www.kvrr.com/2025/02/04/project-2025-protests-planned-wednesday-at-all-50-state-capitol-buildings/
- Shreveport Times (Louisiana): https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2025/02/04/what-is-the-50501-movement-find-out-more-about-the-nationwide-protest-anti-fascicm-against-trump/78208443007/
- Savannah Morning News (GA): https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2025/02/04/where-are-people-protesting-in-georgia-against-trump-the-50501-details/78207555007/
- Dallas Observer (TX): https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/where-to-go-in-texas-for-the-reject-project-2025-protest-21675389
- Clarion Ledger (MS): https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/02/04/people-plan-to-protest-donald-trump-administration-in-mississippi-see-where-when-immigration-dei-ice/78207203007/
- Westword (Denver, CO): https://www.westword.com/news/denver-fifty-state-capitol-protest-when-where-what-to-know-23293344
- Newsweek, a second article: https://www.newsweek.com/50501-protests-update-anti-trump-march-50-states-expands-2025741
edit:
- the Savannah GA story above seems to have been picked up by USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/04/where-are-people-protesting-in-georgia-against-trump-the-50501-details/78207555007/
- CT News Junkie (Connecticut newsletter?): https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/02/04/50501-movement-rally-planned-at-connecticut-capitol-wednesday/
- Herald Dispatch (WV) - very brief: https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/protest-against-project-2025-planned-at-state-capitols-wednesday/article_4e7efd0e-e33e-11ef-95da-e7064df63151.html
- Longmont Leader (CO) mostly sourced from the Westword story: https://www.longmontleader.com/colorado-news/nationwide-protest-against-trump-and-project-2025-planned-in-denver-tomorrow-10181600
- Phoenix New Times (AZ): https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-arizona-fifty-states-protest-when-where-what-to-know-21131150
- KSNT Topkea (Kansas): https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/two-protests-coming-to-the-capital-city-on-wednesday/
- Herald Net (WA) - brief mention: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/protest-planned-wednesday-at-snohomish-county-campus/
- Kennebec Journal (Maine): https://www.centralmaine.com/2025/02/04/trump-project-2025-protesters-to-gather-wednesday-in-augusta/
BONUS:
- Snopes article with some info on who started it https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/04/anti-trump-state-capitol-protests-february-5/
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The instant anything is posted on here it’s already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.
Some tips to help you out
- don’t take your phones to the protest
- if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
- don’t take anything that could identify you as you
- superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
- write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
- stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
- don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
- designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).
Pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.
ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.
Know your rights. Bring the proof of your rights. Force them to acknowledge your rights.
Stream everything.
If you are picked up you will;
- go on a list
- be unlawfully monitored
- become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers
You will now go dark for at least a month. No social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. After that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.
If you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.
One last thing.
There will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.
Trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵
This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy
For further research here’s a great video on mutual aid.
Do not write a phone number on your arm if that number could be used to identify you or your emergency contact. Defeats the purpose of all the other anonymizing steps.
The phone number should be of a lawyer
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Well that was fun. From the modlog:
Bans: ReadMoreBooks - Actively and consistently counterproductive.
Not to mention sliding into paranoia with:
You’re the moderator’s alt. [lol no] Objectively the algorithm [???] says the writing styles are a very good match. Subjectively you’re engaging the same tactic of introducing a red herring.
I see through you like glass. As soon as you realize that you’ll ban me. But, you’ll have no satisfaction because, right now, in this thing, I know you better than yourself.
The comment threads on this post will remain for posterity.
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Wow, thanks for all that! I caught a little bit of information on this last night, but it was so thin at the time that I didn’t think it would be useful to post.
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It’s short notice for a reason
Do NOT attend this event.
No one can identify the organizers. It’s being held without the involvement of any group of organized leftists.
The guidance posted in this thread recommends streaming of video evidence and propagation of that video. This is a blatant violation of operational security.
Revolutionary events are never shared with major media outlets. Major media outlets would not propagate them.
Do NOT attend this event. You WILL be identified by your oppressors. It WILL become a threat to your security. We CANNOT save you from the consequences.
Do NOT attend this event.
Fuck off with this living in fear bullshit.
There’s a big difference between righteously risking action and stupidity.
Every action has a level of risk. Doing nothing is not acceptable.
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I see you.
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A general strike would be far more effective and safer than people showing up to mass facial recognition scanning event.
I don’t see how participating in a general strike would serve to identify you any less than marching.
And every little bit helps. Of course, if you’re a person who’s comfortable with a higher level of risk which might allow you do take “more subversive” actions, you might be wise to save your efforts for those, and forgo going to a march.
But that’s not everyone, and we’re not gatekeeping resistance.
Agreed, getting everyone in one spot could help with organizing one. Another comment in this thread has some general opsec suggestions. One is wearing an n95 or similar medical mask, and painting your face in some colored pattern where masks are banned.
Every action has a level of risk. Doing nothing is not acceptable.
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I see you.
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Given all the evidence, it would be extremely unwise to attend this event.
The fact that you felt the need to speak as a moderator instead of defeating my claims with the facts and reason you should’ve had before you supported it should serve as a red flag to for yourself and others.
Looking forward to your ideas of things that should be done.
Looking forward to your explanation of which leftist organization organized this event and how streaming video facilitates operational security.
Wait, ignoring all of the other stuff, why does protest and action have to be leftist to be legit?
There are other segments protesting, including democrats, who are not leftist.
No ideas then?
General strike. Shutdown everything. Economic pain is the only thing that hurts the broligarchy.
Sign up on the strike card only if you trust the organizers on that site, however it is something being talked about on tbe calendar.
I’ve many ideas. But, it’s a red herring that I’ll not facilitate.
The topic we’re engaging on is that a moderator should be able to explain who organized the event they’re supporting and why steaming video does not violate basic operational security.
I’ll add that moderators that double down on logical fallacy probably shouldn’t be moderators.
“I have many ideas. They live in Canada, you wouldn’t know them.”
If you don’t like it here, nobody is forcing you to be here.
Here’s who’s organizing it, from the post.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/04/anti-trump-state-capitol-protests-february-5/
Don’t stream. But you need to explore what revolutionary optimism is.
After decades engaging theory and praxis, after a half dozen books on the specific topic, after suggesting the core text on the topic to you, I now need to watch some fuckhead’s video to explain the basics?
I’m not convinced. Not even a little bit.
That fuckhead has been organizing for the past 15 years. You’re unwilling to do any research outside of what you’ve read and can reinforce yourself. You weren’t aware of this protest before you read it on the news and since you didn’t hear it through the grapevine you don’t trust it as you cannot control it. You are the very example of a terminally online leftist. Touch grass. There’s no conspiracy against you here. And you’re getting defensive. You might want to investigate why.
With all your learned reasoning why don’t you define in your own words what revolutionary optimism is. I’m not referring to the dua lipa song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz3bDQ14ISg
If you’re active you’re already on a list. Act accordingly.
Operational Security as taught by every leftist group since at least the mid-1800s.
Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky.
Replace your video with Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton.
What kind of person would throw nonsense at a user named ReadMoreBooks and expect anything but having circles run around them?
Wow, you are smug. Don’t go to the protest my guy. Also, Huey Newton is quoted in that video. Maybe watch the vid before you criticize it. You responded before you could’ve watched even at the max 2x speed.
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.You’re the moderator’s alt. Objectively the algorithm says the writing styles are a very good match. Subjectively you’re engaging the same tactic of introducing a red herring.
I see through you like glass. As soon as you realize that you’ll ban me. But, you’ll have no satisfaction because, right now, in this thing, I know you better than yourself.
Look at my comment history. I have nothing to do with this moderator. You project like a theater.
Wait, algorithm? What algorithm? Where are you getting all of this?
Ok doomerYou may agree with what @[email protected] is saying or not agree. Being cautious of the motives of strangers on the internet is important. But also know that they may be going through some shit right now. I regret agitating them as I don’t want to contribute to whatever it is they’re going through.
This is a marathon not a race and you don’t need to be at a march to contribute.
