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Not true, I don't live in the US lol

This was Colorado. I agree that the timing sucks for people with regular jobs, but we also need to get the attention of our representatives and disrupt the peace.

Jesus Christ I don't think I've ever seen a posts comments so full of reasons this won't work.

You guys don't even need your media to dissuade you, you just convince each other not to do anything.

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

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. 🫵

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfJNbCBqYV8

Most people don't live in their state capitol, and have no hope of attending something there that they learned of at the last minute. They should have been informed of this days ago.

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

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.

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!!!

Edit: compare this to the protest happening in front of the Treasury

• clear organizer (Elizabeth Warren iirc -- I stumbled across this yesterday and can't seem to find the source) and promoted by other prominent Democrats
• shared publicly along Democrat official channels and accounts
• press notified and documented the event

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 I'd only realisticly be able to participate if I heard about this 2 weeks ago.

I wish I'd known about this like 2 weeks ago instead of 30 minutes before I go into work. I'd call out if it didn't mean financial ruin for my family

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.

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.

GET OUT THERE, STOP MAKING EXCUSES.

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

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 with other stops on the way home. I've always used 7 1/2hrs as the time it takes to get to NYC so that's where I'm getting 5-6hrs Buffalo to Albany.

Tldr: Yo, America's big as fuck.