I’ll see you all there!!! Hands Off!
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I’ll be in Seattle! See you there!!
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights
SHARPIE THE PHONE NUMBER OF YOUR LOCAL LEGAL COUNCIL NON PROFIT ON YOUR BODY
https://www.nlg.org/massdefense/
Bonus points: bring a mini sharpie to mark it on others.
LEAVE YOUR PHONE AT HOME
I just want to note that one of the key links on the NLG site, under Protest Tools > Legal Hotlines, is broken. (The "Chapter Page" link goes to a broken draft version.) If you went to that site specifically to find a local chapter's phone number to write, the correct link to that page is: https://www.nlg.org/chapters/
Take back the white house from russia agent, Kasnov Trump and Nazi Felon Musk.
I'm going!
Me, too.
Same here!
I'm going too! Making some puppets to hold signs with in support of PBS funding and unions. I recently learned how to work with felt and want to use my new skill for good.
I'm thinking signs could be:
"Have you learned NOTHING from sesame Street?"
"This is not very Mr. Rogers of you Donald"
"That's not how we treat our neighbors" with a cutout of Mr. Rogers
"Even puppets can recognize that clown"
any additional ideas welcome!
Make a puppet of Trump and dress up like Putin. Or Musk, if that's easier.
^ Am Canadian, but this is a chain of good people 🙏
Block the access roads to Mar-a-Lago
The weird ass trump supporters already do that every day still like the election is still happening. It's a cult I swear. They're on the fucking overpass waving flags constantly.
I checked the map, the closest protest seems to be a government building in west palm.
Remember, folks: avoid attempts by bad actors to turn your peaceful legal protest into a riot, 47's itching for an excuse to invoke martial law and seize more power. Disable biometrics on any phone you bring. Make sure someone knows where you're going and is waiting to hear you made it home. Don't post pictures or videos that identify people, who may be risking a lot more than you by being there. You don't want to be the reason ICE disappears someone. Protect yourself from teargas but also from plain old sunburn and dehydration.
Itching, he wants to invoke it, using specifically the insurrection act of 1807, tomorrow they may push it earlier then 90 days since it was always part of project 2025 and also due the senate most likely passing a bill to limit his power for tariff by needing approval from them to be used, so they enact it just a bit earlier to make sure national emergency still exist. Don't be surprised if it is invoked as this was always planned as part of project 2025.
Stock market crashing -> now a reason for corporate interests to align with resistance -> finally hearing about protests in mainstream media
It's fascinatingly dumb how short-sighted they are. Do they like having money? People deported, in jail, dead, unemployed, homeless can't buy their stuff. A delusional hope of feeding off government money only works until the government no longer has a use for you, or decides to just take you over and you become part of the government.
It is in their best interests to support the masses, but they can't ever see past 3 months in the future.
To begin with, Franco was not strictly comparable with Hitler or Mussolini. His rising was a military mutiny backed up by the aristocracy and the Church, and in the main, especially at the beginning, it was an attempt not so much to impose Fascism as to restore feudalism. This meant that Franco had against him not only the working class but also various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie—the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.
From Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia", emphasizes added.
The bourgeoisie aligning to the resistance has happened before. Now, make no mistake: they will betray the movement as soon as it's in their interests to do so. Don't trust them past the current crisis.
Don't even trust them now. Nothing has happened yet. We can say that they took our side after MAGA is out of power and the extremist apparatus that supported them is totally destroyed.
If there's one lesson we can learn from Trump, it's that it's much easier to destroy something than it is to build it. IF we gain power again, we need to take that lesson to heart, and turn it against the fascists who gleefully applied it to the American people, and the rest of the democratic world.
100% unrelated, Anyone know if Faraday bag for phone is a good option for large gatherings where i uhh... just want to be part of the moment?
Bring an old fashioned digital camera and leave the phone at home
try a Faraday bucket instead.
- open bucket
- put phone in bucket
- leave at home
- go to protest
If you really can't bear to be without a phone, get 2 burners. Put the number of each on the other. Nothing else. Bring one, and give the other to the person who might need you urgently or might be able to bail you out. You can write their burner number on yourself for EMTs to call, without giving police any justification for getting into their real phone.
I'm going to one and so should you. Fuck these fascists.
We had an anti-Trump protest in Alabama. In ALABAMA. And this wasn't mostly college-aged liberals. It was primarily older white people, the republican core demographic. If we, by some miracle, make it through the next three and a half years, the Republicans are going to suffer historical losses across the board.