Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol.

• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which upcoming protests would your friends recommend going to instead? Assuming that someone can’t travel to DC.

  One that:

  • organized by people you know or by organizations you trust
  • organized by people who have “skin in the game” (i… people of color, LGBTQ+)
  • organized by someone with a name that is searchable
  • promoted by organizations within the opposition (e.g. Democrats, DNC, etc.)

  As many of the above that can apply.

  What might happen to someone who attended a not “well intentioned” protest, that wouldn’t happen to someone who attended a normal one?

  If you end up going to a protest because “I want to do something” without doing any due diligence, you are placing your faith and trust to someone you do not know. If you arrive there, they may pretend to be a part of a leftist organization. You may end up trusting them more than you should, giving them more information than you should. If they are running the protest as a false flag and in bad faith, then you’ve given your private information to someone who intends you harm.

  Best case scenario, the organizers don’t know what they are doing and are running the protest in good faith, but it also means they are new to this and don’t have good operational security.

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which upcoming protests would your friends recommend going to instead? Assuming that someone can’t travel to DC.

    One that:

    • organized by people you know or by organizations you trust
    • organized by people who have “skin in the game” (i… people of color, LGBTQ+)
    • organized by someone with a name that is searchable
    • promoted by organizations within the opposition (e.g. Democrats, DNC, etc.)

    As many of the above that can apply.

    Such as? I’ve actually been looking for information on protests that are coming up, so that I can publicize them here, and have more than one day’s notice. What are some that are upcoming that I could spread the word about, that are good and trusted ones?

    If you end up going to a protest because “I want to do something” without doing any due diligence, you are placing your faith and trust to someone you do not know. If you arrive there, they may pretend to be a part of a leftist organization. You may end up trusting them more than you should, giving them more information than you should. If they are running the protest as a false flag and in bad faith, then you’ve given your private information to someone who intends you harm.

    Is it common for you that when you show up to a protest, people to start asking for your name and information about you? I have been to some protests and I have literally never had this happen or heard of this happening. Has it ever happened to you? Are you suggesting that the feds or somebody who doesn’t like protests, is creating new protests, so that they can then collect the information of anybody that shows up, and that they are not collecting the same information (or somehow unable to collect the same information) at real protests that happen, that they don’t like and want to punish people for taking part in?

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