Do you know about the upcoming February 5th event ?
is it well known and do people talk about it ... like in the mainstream media ?
[solved] in the media :
https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
( thanks to irelephant )
What To Know
The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.
Don't start protesting on a week day. Protest on the weekend to get a show of force. If demands are not met, follow it up with a general strike for your next protest.
People will be more willing to join in strike action if they know they are not alone.
I absolutely fucking hate that I can't say you're being a bit overkill.
What the actual fuck
The instant anything is posted on here it's already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.
Just saying, this seems really sketchy folks.
Some tips to help you out
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;
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.
Yeah, this whole thing is very poorly done and really screams like annexcuse toncreate andalse flag moment. I saw a Reddit comment that this exact thing was listed in the Project2025 playbook as part of an excuse to create a scene and enact martial law.
One thing I'd recommend that I'm unsure how to easily obtain, is getting the phone number of a civil rights lawyer ready. It does kind of contradict the point about not bringing phones, I suppose. At the very least, if one is available in the vicinity after attempted arrests it can be useful.
I also feel somewhat guilty, as I will be attending in a very blue state that's unlikely to have so much resistance, so I may skirt some of those rules myself.
I'd say that violent incursion into blue states with the help of federal forces and local brownshirt provocateurs is almost a goal of Project 2025 and MAGA more broadly so I wouldn't count on it not happening wherever you are. We've seen plenty of that kind of thing on the West Coast particularly. Local police unfortunately have a large membership overlap with said brownshirts.
Great advice except I'm confused about how to "stream everything" if we're supposed to leave our phones at home.
And based on the deal Trump is doing with Bukele, there's a chance you could end up getting thrown into an El Salvadorian prison and locked up with MS-13 gangbangers.
Why is your entire comment history deleted?
I think the care for being not identified and covering one's tracks provided in the above comment is a pretty obvious indicator for why their comment history is scrubbed lol.
I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.
I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you've got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you've got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I'm sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.
i don't know who organized this and just made this post to have some answers. Thankfully, some users are coming up with answers ... so i have updated the header of this post.
Love a protest in the middle of the workday, should be easy for most people to attend, no?
I've already seen someone on Lemmy say that they should feed their kids out of dumpsters if they lose their job that they rely on to live paycheck-to-paycheck (like almost half of Americans) and then their home because they can't pay rent.
And if they lose their kids to CPS because they were made homeless and their parents were arrested during a general strike protest? Hey, they were clearly just MAGA bootlickers anyway.
If people aren't willing to give up 1 hour of their corporate slavery to stop facism, then we are already doomed.
There's a difference between "willing" and "able" 😅
Today you learn lot of people don't live in their states capital city
It's 576 miles between El Paso and Austin. Please explain how someone is going to be able to get there within an hour with time to protest.
You had it correct at corporate SLAVERY.
Imagine you get fired over this, lose your home, stop being able to feed your family. I don't think unemployment benefits in the US cover much, do they?
I hope most everyone who's ABLE to protest, is also willing.
More like 2 days and money for a car or bus + gas, depending on where in the state you live
This will be too short notice and too expensive for many to attend. Generalstrikeus.com has the right idea
I think this has value even if it doesn't cause immediate change. People need to just get out and express how they're feeling and network with like minded people instead of sitting online doomscrolling. We've got to organize.
I've been trying to figure out how to network with people where I live and so far it's been very difficult, partly because I'm very busy constantly and don't have a car or a lot of spending money, and also because I'm depressed and my social skills are absolute garbage. At this point almost all of my social life for the past few years has been Lemmy, Reddit, and Instagram.
I was pretty sure I knew what a general strike was.. wouldn't any strike be more expensive than 2-4 hours of protest, and wouldn't a general strike involve much more planning than a normal strike due to the scale and breadth?
Also I was worried that generalstrikeus.com was too soon. The UAW general strike is planned for 2028 to get time to plan, because a general strike isn't something you can just do successfully at the drop of a hat.
Could be used to organise for a general strike though.
Added your GeneralStrikeUS.com link to the header of my post, thanks for this information
I neglected to post it on Lemmy when I found out about it earlier. Key word being "earlier" - Lemmy is just one branch of where it's been shared, so don't assume the momentum started here.
Does nobody have a job here?
Some things are more important.
Not everyone lives in their state capitol. It’s a 10+ hour drive for some people. Take three days off? This protest is going to be low turnout.
You’re not gonna get fired for missing one day.
Tell me you've never worked for minimum wage by telling me you've never worked for minimum wage.
If you are gonna get fired for that, this is literally the protest to stop that shit.
Tell me you've never lived in poverty with children depending on you by telling me you've never lived in poverty with children depending on you.
This is a white people thing. Students and min wage workers in large cities can pull this off. America is full of people with hope and a 9-5 to.oay there ridiculous rent.
As a student there is no way I am skipping a day's worth of classes and risking my grade for a single protest that's probably not going to do shit similar to the other protests I've been to that didn't do shit
Yes, all those impoverished people in cities working minimum wage jobs that rely on every cent of their paycheck just to keep a roof over their kids' heads and food in their bellies who will get fired for missing even a day of work for any reason can totally pull this off. Totally.
This was poorly advertised. I've never heard of it, and I'm on Lemmy every day.
Why on such a weird day? I can just take off work this week and drive 3 hours to Madison lol. Can I digitally be there. Although I'm expecting an very poor turnout in every state tbh.
because in the middle of the week in the middle of the day is when it causes the most disruption to literally everything and everybody. Government officials won't even be there on the weekend. May as well decide to do it in the middle of a huge field out in the country.
I'm guessing since they're protesting project 2025 organizing the protest to happen on 2/5/25 kind of makes sense.
i was also thinking it might be better in the weekend ... fortunately, people will talk and decide.
But also it is called 50 Protests, 50 States, OneDay : February 5th
The date will be 2/5/25. I think it's more symbolism of protesting Project 2025.
Yeah February in WI is not a smart time to plan to stand outside. Same in most other northern states for at least another 2 months
if it's not the start of a general strike idgaf. a single day of protests works about as well as blacking out a subreddit.
General strikes take a pretty large mass. To build that, a very important step is making sure more people are aware of how many are committed to resistance.
It's like being invited to a party, and the host says "Well, you're one of the first ten people I've invited, but I'm encouraging others to share-" and you just reply "Nope, I'm not going unless there's already a million people going." Of course, in this case, the protest has been shared outside of just Lemmy, so don't use local numbers as an indicator.
Right; what do people expect, here? A "general strike" that someone calls at random won't do much more than a few extra people calling in sick. It takes time to build solidarity to agree that we're all going to do this. If we had that kind of solidarity, I don't think we'd be in this position in the first place.
That's my take as well.
Unless this goes on with some critical infrastructure impacted for at least a few weeks, it's utterly pointless.
As a Brit looking in, America is a mess
a mess
Is that supposed to be a British way of spelling "disaster"?
I'd like to also tell you about the time an English brigadier responded "pretty sticky down here" when asked about the situation - ~600 Brits were surrounded by ~10k Chinese. Of course, the American General who had asked him didn't think twice of it, but apparently when a brit says "a bit sticky" it means "we're all about to die", not "oh it's not too bad". About 40 survived.
Other favourites:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
The plane was landed safely. But I do imagine the passengers were in some distress at least.
“We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind.”
Churchill, about WWII.
What is the objective here? Are we asking for something specific or just yelling in frustration into the void?
Please read my post's header : just updated it with relevant source.
As with most protests by the left it will be 10,000 people with 10,000 different priorities.
You’re leftists. You’re just expressing your rage glands.
What exactly counts as the mainstream media nowadays?
Cable news?
I haven't had cable TV for probably 20 years now.
Internet news?
Which ones? There seems to be an endless number of them
for me it is NPR (National Public Radio) ... or any sources which are good enough to be the main link for posts in !worldnews@lemmy.world or such main communities...
Either the internet newses run by the (former?) cable newses or the newspapers of record
I think it's gonna be one of those things that's supposed to be a thing, but isn't a thing.
But I'm not going to shit all over someone's attempt to make a difference if it's based on genuine good effort and intention.
"We the people" voted for it! There was no big reveal after the election; it was well known that Project 2025 was the goal. Anyone who says otherwise had their head in the sand for the last 6 months.
A lot of Trump voters are horribly uninformed. They didn't know - and still don't know - what Project 2025 is. They thought it was fearmongering because they only heard about it from Dems. They have no idea what's happening right now, nor do they care. All they know is their team won, and they're otherwise tuned out. Maybe they'll wake up when they feel the effects, but they'll probably just blame Democrats because Fox News tells them to.
Those were willfully ignorant and they will remain so until they hurt bad or die, no amoubt of information will change that
The majority of "We the people" voted for something else. Don't let Trump have the narrative that this is what the American people asked for.
A lot of people didn't even know Biden wasn't running anymore, tells you how informed Americans were about their vote
Nope only 23% of Americans voted for the nazis. 77% of Americans either didn't vote, voted for Harris (or others), or were ineligible to vote.
didn’t vote
If you accept facists without objection, you aren't much better than the facists.
Most maga voters had their head in the sand, they have always had their head in the sand, it's the only way for them to live. Ignore reality, pretend that your make belief world where racism is fine, jeebus can take the wheel, miracles exist, and trump is the new jeebus
Everyone just call in sick. Say it is because you didn't want any vaccines.
Good luck but I either need to fly or take a ferry to get to my state’s capitol building. Need more than a few days heads up.
From what I can see about it, the organisers are some reddit mods. The person who started it was reddit.com/u/Evolved_Fungi. The subreddit is r/50501 and their bluesky is https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social.
A lot of people don't know about it, its gotten almost no attention from the media, that I have noticed. All I have found is one newsweek article https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
Finally, there is real article in mainstream media that can be used to create a post in one of the main news communities.
Would you care to create it ?
N.B. it can't be in /c/WorldNews because they do not accept news from the USA.
Posted it, !news@lemmy.world. They said the same things in their discord about it when I shared it, funnily enough.
Excited to see people ready to take action, but just be careful. See the thread on this profile for more info: https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social (this user has set her account to logged in users only).
"Listen, for folks who don't know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.
I am not talking out of my ass.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer"
There was also a mod thread on r/albuquerque about it.
I am sure there will be BOTH legit protests and shitty people using this for nefarious reasons. I'm still on the fence about whether to drive 2 hours to my local one or not. I've already signed up for other things through mobilize.us anyway.
Hi Lenny,
i think i will add your comment here to the header of my post. What do you think ?
P.S. : Main warning in your comment added. Done. Also added a [caution] flare
Sure... I don't wanna stop people going though. I just want people to consider what didn't even enter my mind as someone who is new to all this. Read up, and be willing to protect yourself if you go. But I DO support people protesting if this is legit.
You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer
Why?
Alright, I'm prepared to take some heat for this because in the context of the best organized protests I think my assumptions are incorrect. However most protests don't rise to that level. Thing is if your protest looks for the most part like a party with some political alignments and isn't related to some direct action in your community or actual expectations/demands of the relevant political body...
Not to say that "performative" protests are useless. But there seems to be a distressing number of my fellow gen Z that think these sorts of protests alone will work. Like all they need to do is yell loudly into a few news network cameras on capital hill then go home.
I'll probably see what's going on in my home state and hope to see some targeted action and real dialogue. I truly hope my assumptions are proven wrong.
As an outsider I can't see them caring about this at all... but boy I support you guys. It's time you do something
Reject 2025
Can't wait for all the pictures of these events with half a dozen people standing around looking lost.
No no, it'll be a huge turnout and if you don't agree then you're an idiot for thinking that any significant amount of the population works 9-5 M-F. Just look at these comments! We can't fail, we posted, "So when is the general strike and protest?" 78 times yesterday on every even vaguely political post, so turnout will be great in the middle of the day on Wednesday. Trust fam. /s
5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump's team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn't vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn't going to happen.
I'm all for protest but I don't think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.
I'm not American or a resident of US but that's just my opinion as an outsider.
ah yes, voting, famously known for being the only way humans have ever changed their material circumstances.
now that voting has failed us, the only thing left to do is nothing!
Sadly voting didn't fail you. US is in the same predicament UK was in after Brexit. Complacency at the expected outcome, a belief that some people couldn't be so stupid as to vote for Trump/Brexit and yet, they did in the majority.
Regardless of how fucked up the election process is, inany countries I'm not singling out the US, that is the reason that you feel failed, look at your countrymen that swallowed the snake oil and ask the question why?
For the love of everything, please do take to the streets. Better late than never.
Protest, cool, but accomplish what exactly? None of this means a damn thing if nobody has any clue what's going on
I feel like the issue is with our fellow citizens who voted for him and the congressmen/woman. You can protest all you want but they'll keep getting elected.
If you can disrupt businesses enough then the oligarchs holding Trump's leash will start telling him to behave.
Ain't driving 400 miles to Sacramento when there's a perfectly good Federal Building within a mile. Also it's not the State of California I'm mad at.
Yup, that's a good 8 hour drive for me as well.
::: spoiler source same :
i first got hints about it when stumbling upon a comment from @anon6789@lemmy.world
about it here :
https://lemmy.world/post/25025443
:::
I think this one is too short noticed for most people
yeah it's going to be tough. supposedly a bunch of people on Reddit are organizing it https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/ I saw mention of it on facebook too. I think part of the goal is to get Democrats to grow a spine, since they plan to do nothing.
I read 50 prostate tests...
If people don't go armed, I'm worried what could happen.
People will be in danger either way with the violence prone goons in power. If you are armed, there will be justification to shoot you. Protest at more public and friendly places. That way you will likely have allies nearby. Also, folks need to be situationally aware and plan an escape path if things turn too dangerous.
Trump's people would probably be more likely to shoot you if unarmed, than if the crown was armed.
It's been shown multiple times (and through history) the the opposing force is less likely to shoot the protestors if the protesters can shoot back, because now there's also an actual danger to them.
Good point! We need to increase safety. Anyone know of any non-profit organizations that lend out AK-47s and .762 rounds to angry protestors within 2 days?? /s
If you go to a protest with a firearm, you're a fucking idiot. The police will have every reason to believe you're a danger to public safety, whether you believe you are or not. Also, you better be trained to use that thing because if not, you're going to be an additional problem if shit hits the fan. And if you get arrested for anything at all, your charges will become exponentially worse because you allegedly committed a crime while carrying a firearm. DON'T TAKE A FIREARM TO A PROTEST.
Edit: I just got emotionally activated, so here we go.
That is Elizabeth Eckford. She was one of the first Black students to go to what was up til then a white school in Arkansas. She was absolutely going as part of a movement for social progress while being the victim of discrimination her whole life. The discrimination is going on in the picture. Without a doubt, she is the person in most danger in that photo. She is in the right. She is present for progress. She is in danger. You know what she doesn't have? A fucking gun. Why? Because if she took a gun, the people with power will have the reason to fuck the whole thing up. If you take a firearm to a protest, the police will have every reason to shut the entire thing down, and the news will run their propaganda machine in collaboration with the current administration to derail the entire message and come up with even stricter control. If Elizabeth Eckford had taken a gun, she would have been arrested and the news would be all about how Black people are violent, need more policing, and segregation needs to continue. If you take a gun, the news will be about how the left is violent. In these matters, objective truth doesn't matter. It's a social game, and those with power have more means to control the narrative. You need to be perfect because all they need is one little piece of plausible reason to fuck the whole thing up. It's not fair. It's fucked up. You are in danger. That's all true. It's also why people like Elizabeth Eckford are remembered. They took the risk that pushed us forward. The people that went in and fucked it up for everyone were forgotten. Do it the right way so we can make progress.
DON'T. TAKE.A.GUN.
Elizabeth Eckford had the protection of the federal government (this is it you ignore that she got PTSD so bag from the experience she attempted suicide btw).
Today's federal government on the other hand is on the side of the people yelling:
You ever hear about the Black Panthers? You know why they were so successful California and the FBI had to intervene to try to disband them? Here's a hint:
And you know why they were armed? Here's another hint to how non-armed black protestors were usually dealt with in history (sfw example):
An unarmed protest is a defenseless one with no deterrent for the aggressors. And if you're protesting against literal Nazis, it's not going to be peaceful. Even during Trump's first term people were kidnapped, and he's way more unhinged this time.
oooh.... someone mentioned this on 196, was that you? I did a couple web searches but couldn't figure it out... they might delete this post, u should think about where else to post it...
No it wasn't me and i made a comment in here describing where i found it.
Also i read carefully the rules and don't believe my post will be deleted.
Finally, just in case, i made a cross-post at my own community for safekeeping.
Update : relevant results at ddg.com with :
reddit 50501
Thanks, i have edited my post with this and the [solved] flare.
Why “50501”? What’s that mean?
50 protests
50 states
1 day
Thus 50501
i first got hints about it when stumbling upon a comment from @anon6789@lemmy.world
about it here :
https://lemmy.world/post/25025443
[meta]
Hey, I appreciate that!
Some more media mentions, mostly local and brief:
edit:
BONUS:
This is a lot of valuable information and since my post is now old (quite dead) no one will have access to this in here.
So, it's better if you create a new post with these informations.
Oh yeah great idea, I just posted it to !politics@lemmy.world Let's see if it stays up.
btw this post we're on was on the front page of "all" - "active" earlier today but it seems to have slipped way off.
Good job! I tried and I sucked at this.
Thanks very much, i'm quite happy with the success of the post.
Just saw now your comment from 24 hours ago :
https://lemmy.world/comment/14838511
My post here started after i saw a comment quite similar to yours !
This is great. I was reactive because I couldn't see anything anywhere about it. Anyway, let's hope this happens.
Sadly, I don't see this accomplishing shit. We're in too deep.
The situation is dire, yes. And maybe those 50 protests will not do much. Yet, yesterday there were many manifestations against deportations throughout the USA. Eventually, the sum of all oppositions will contribute, at the very least, to slow down the disaster.
How the fuck can you fuck up a protest plan this badly??????? Is this intentional sabotage for an effective turn out? Fucking idiots.
plan it on a wednesday in the middle of the day so everyone can say "ah, i'm busy" and feel satisfied for doing jack shit
Sorry, this for me is trolling, so, i'm blocking your account.
Have a nice life.
👍 good for you
This made me lol out loud irl.
Can this start at let’s say 5:30pm. I work until 4pm hour plus drive or 2 hour bus ride. Actually make it 7
So happy for Americans to get to re-enact Tianamen Square 2, (except without the scholars and students of course, you're Americans)
Edit: yeah I don't know about politics. Downvote me for daydreaming.
Now I wonder if all that extra Kamala money she had leftover from donations could've gone to an organization to fix this American nightmare. Give us back the American dream.
The start is voting in democrats so we have a majority in DC in 2 years. The org could also help back these protests to raise awareness by making local adverts on billboards/public trans/radio.
Make it a 4 year campaign to flip America blue. Then we might be able to fix some shit.
Most democrats at the federal level are complicit in a lot of what’s going on, including Musk’s DOGE treasury crap (crimes?) despite him not being a government employee or confirmed by the senate. Hell, most congressional democrats JUST in the last year voted for the legislation that enables ICE to indefinitely detain any suspected immigrant suspected of committing any crime. No due process. No actual crime needed.
Screw voting for democrats. Democrats voted to let the government round up the people I love to be deported or tortured. If we still have the power to vote, vote for leftists. Or vote for left-of-average-democrat people like Bernie.
Ahh. So they're not just lazy, they're in on it. Gotcha.
Here is the kicker. The protest will be largely a white population. The push back is only as great as the white man can make it. Welcome to america. 🤣🤣🤣
White people in the streets-protest People of color in the streets-riot
They left out writing the number of your attorney or the ACLU on yourself in sharpie, so you'll have it if you need it.
Oldie but a goodie
Not commanding enough. It should be "Avoid Google at all costs".