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[solved] Do you know about the upcoming February 5th event ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

[caution]
https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
(see comment below by @[email protected] )

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

See also :
GeneralStrikeUS.com
proposed by : @[email protected]

[solved] by : @[email protected]

Click to show start times

Start times:

Start Times By State (current as of 1/31/2025):

Alabama: No information
Alaska: 12:00 noon
Arizona: 12:00 noon
Arkansas: 12:00 noon
California: 12:00 noon
Colorado: 12:00 noon
Connecticut: 12:00 noon
Delaware: 12:00 noon
Florida: 12:00 noon
Georgia: 11:00 AM
Hawaii: 12:00 noon
Idaho: 12:00 noon
Illinois: 12:00 noon
Indiana: 12:00 noon
Iowa: 12:00 noon
Kansas: 12:00 noon
Kentucky: 12:00 noon
Louisiana: 12:00 noon
Maine: 12:00 noon
Maryland: 12:00 noon
Massachusetts: 12:00 noon
Michigan: 12:00 noon
Minnesota: 12:00 noon
Mississippi: 12:00 noon
Missouri: 12:00 noon
Montana: 12:00 noon
Nebraska: 12:00 noon
Nevada: 12:00 noon
New Hampshire: 12:00 noon
New Jersey: 12:00 noon
New Mexico: 12:00 noon
New York: 12:00 noon
North Carolina: 1:00 PM
North Dakota: 12:00 noon
Ohio: 12:00 noon
Oklahoma: 12:00 noon - 4:00 PM
Oregon: 12:00 noon
Pennsylvania: 12:00 noon
Rhode Island: 12:00 noon
South Carolina: 12:00 noon
South Dakota: 12:00 noon
Tennessee: 1:30
Texas: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Utah: 12:00 noon
Vermont: 12:00 noon
Virginia: 11:30 AM
Washington: 12:00 noon - 2PM
Washington DC: 12:00 noon
West Viriginia: 12:00 noon
Wisconsin: 12:00 noon
Wyoming: 12:00 noon
https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1ifb26m/start_times/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

This was poorly advertised. I've never heard of it, and I'm on Lemmy every day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

Good job! I tried and I sucked at this.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

just saying, this seems really sketchy folks.

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 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 comment will be deleted in 24 hours

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The instance 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

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 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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

I absolutely fucking hate that I can't say you're being a bit overkill.

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why delete this treasure trove of good information??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

because when their little AI SS datahound is operational I'm not getting a knock on my door.

someone has to stick around for the railroad.

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

Isn't that what throwaway accounts are for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

it's so easy to track a physical person across multiple accounts.

from the times you post, to your opinions, to the way you write, even misspellings.

all of it makes a profile of who you are.

they don't even need AI to determine that. AI just makes it faster.

why else would they want $500 billion for meta to build their mega(maga) AI farm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why “50501”? What’s that mean?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

50 protests

50 states

1 day

Thus 50501

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As a Brit looking in, America is a mess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

a mess

Is that supposed to be a British way of spelling "disaster"?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago

Everyone just call in sick. Say it is because you didn't want any vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 15 hours ago (26 children)

Love a protest in the middle of the workday, should be easy for most people to attend, no?

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