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

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• horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The instant anything is posted on here it’s already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.

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  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. 🫵

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  This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy

  For further research here’s a great video on mutual aid.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJNbCBqYV8

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was going to go but after spending almost an entire evening trying to find organizing information, I gave up and decided to sit this out.

  There was no information on who was organizing this, who is backing it, and most importantly, who to contact. From an OPSEC standpoint, without a clear contact on who was organizing, it read like a false flag.

  • website had no information outside of the event
  • all POCs were "to be announced"
  • website for my area was on carrd with only the image of the flyer
  • all social media accounts are on techbro websites with no presence on mastodon or lemmy. Their bluesky account never directly answered the question of who was behind the account

  I hope to God I’m wrong and hope that organizers are well intentioned but given our current political climate, I need to know who is putting this out there. I’m not the only one worried. Many others on Bluesky, reddit, Facebook, etc all raised concerns. One reply I read was “contact us on discord”.

  Fuck. That.

  There wasn’t even a link to their discord!!!

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Awful short notice. My state capital is 3 hours away and I have work.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    There’s a protest at your work today.

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• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This event would have faired a lot better if it had any sort of actual organization and a core team of organizers to answer questions and provide solid information. All of my friends who would have been interested in an event like this decided to avoid it because there just wasn’t enough information for it to not seem “sketchy,” and something so poorly organized was likely to only draw small groups of supporters, thus reducing the “safety in numbers” that protesters would greatly benefit from against a crowd of fascist police and anti-protesters.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Also… at noon during the work week? 😒

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    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      To be fair thats the time when its most effective

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The news doesn’t cover what happens at 2pm on a Saturday unless there’s multiple bodies.

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That part I think I understand. Capitol buildings tend to be kinda empty during the weekend.

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• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Anyone have streams?

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• 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Its crazy to think if I weren’t a US citizen and was reading this, I’d think “man that’s 50 individual locations for everyone to be able to participate if they want.”

  When the reality is, if I wanted to attend my New York Stare protest in Albany, id be looking at a 5-6ish one way trip, 10-12hrs round trip just driving. I’m totally guessing tho. Ive never gone from my house to Albany before. Only ever went there from either the adks or NYC coming back to Buffalo.

  Tldr: Yo, America’s big as fuck.

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  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I just plugged in my state capital into my driving app. It says it will take 6 hours and 51 minutes one-way. Yeah, I can’t even afford the gas for that. So I checked public transportation and it said 12 hours one-way and one of the three tickets I’d have to buy was $100. Your tldr is spot on.

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like the enemy started this so they then say “see nobody cares, nobody showed up” because we saw through their bullshit.

  The lack of organizer info after a whole bunch of people have tried to find it is a huge red flag to me.

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  • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Definitely, and they can track the people that did show up as highly motivated.

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• Primer81@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is way too obscure. Most people would need more time than this to plan I imagine. I’m only hearing about this today after being tuned into politics for months and id only realisticly be able to participate if I heard about this 2 weeks ago.

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, true that. I’ve been hearing about a lot of things like this more or less the day of, which isn’t too convenient most of the time.

    If it makes a difference, it seems likely to me that the protests in DC will keep happening on an ongoing basis until something happens to disperse them.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSr9SuT9oh0

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  • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I only found out two days ago. Unions usually get the word out weeks in advance for a strike, and that’s for people that are necessarily engaged in protesting those in power and (currently) have the protections to do so.

    I’m not saying people shouldn’t try to go, but the expectation for turnout should be tempered accordingly.

    Hopefully the next one gives people a lot more advanced notice.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GET OUT THERE, STOP MAKING EXCUSES.

  (For your protection read the EFF websites protest guide to keep yourself safe).

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

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  • _____@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    aweehh !! I have work!! and I love so much to slave away for my corporate slave masters !! bullshit.

    it sure is convenient to have an excuse to let your country fall

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• DrBabyJesus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m skeptical of this one. On one hand, I am glad that this is going to be visible and let other people know that they aren’t alone and a resistance is there. However, this is unorganized as hell. You’re going to have a lot of first time protestors who don’t know the basics of protesting against an active police state. I think this protest is a net positive, but not a massive one. The best we can hope for is for organizers to make use of this enthusiasm in the future or we get very visible tension escalation.

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  • jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    these events are about connecting with your community and getting organized. go with that in mind.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone gets their start somewhere.

    And you can be sure that the old hats are making sure to record and broadcast everything. So when the jackboots inevitably see a black person and start unloading with “rubber bullets” and tear gas, people will see.

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• introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well you are wrong I’m not from the US

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like someone needs to start an anti-Trump protest in their country. It’s not like it’s not going to impact you, or like your local government is yet doing enough to adapt to what’s going to come.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I fon think that’ll have the impact you think it does. This is something we Americans need to handle ourselves, and not rely on the rest of the world to do for us.

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did you check?

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    • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Yeah, we don’t have states

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• MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminder anyone that you don’t know who approaches you and suggests illegal activity is a LEO plant.

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• frickineh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ugh, I really need to order some glasses. I’m blind as a bat without contacts but I’m also not trying to end up literally blind if the cops break out the tear gas (and Denver PD is still settling lawsuits from the 2020 protests, so I have zero faith in them to not escalate). Didn’t have “buy glasses to protest the rise of fascism” on my 2025 bingo card but I probably should’ve.

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• Mortoc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I live in Austin TX and just saw this. Heading downtown now, cya there. Thanks OP

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• newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I heard from some of my more active friends that none of the usual leaders or orgs they know of were a part of founding this and there’s some suspicion it was created by right wingers to collect data; can anyone speak to this?

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What do you mean “to collect data”?

    Attending a protest opens you up to people knowing you attended a protest. That’s pretty fucking unfortunate, but why would this one be different from any other protest in that regard?

    ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

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    • newnton@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m just echoing some suspicions I’ve heard from more knowledgeable friends and was asking, I don’t really know enough detail to have any opinion myself; sorry if it’s a silly question.

      I’ve just heard that organizers coming out of it/ the Reddit accounts that originally elevated it seemed astroturfeyand there’s concern there, and I’ve seen some more paranoid ideas thrown around about it but idk

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You have to start somewhere.

    The people of this country have been, for the most part, just sitting back and letting the politicians run everything, and that definitely isn’t working. If people are going to do something about it, the first step is getting off the couch and going and meeting some other people who want to do something about it.

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  • pikmeir@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It probably won’t directly change anything but it will and can change public perception and what lawmakers see. It at least shows them “look at all these people who won’t stand by and take it.”

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It will show that people aren’t alone, Trump wants to pretend they have an overwhelming mandate to do whatever he wants, having upset people together shows that actually there are a lot of people that feel similarly. Organizing and coming together is the first step. The next is the strategic plan.

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