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We the people are speaking out at every capital in every state, today, now!

A growing movement opposing President Donald Trump's early actions is organizing protests across all 50 states on Wednesday.

What to Know:

The movement uses the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501 (50 protests, 50 states, one day).

Many demonstrations are planned at state capitols, while others will take place in major cities.

Flyers circulating online denounce Project 2025 and call for action against fascism and deportations.

Organizers, like Kelsey Brianne in Michigan, are mobilizing communities with grassroots efforts.

Protests have already begun, with thousands marching against deportation policies in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.

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[–] gAlienLifeform 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should post these to more communities since it might get removed from this one

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've spoke with the mods. We should be good now.

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[–] Furedadmins 16 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I was at the Boston event. At several points people started loud trans right chants which I think is a strategic mistake. This makes it too easy to reframe this as a trans protest rather than anti facism/anti 2025 since a huge portion of the population just dismiss trans rights protests out of hand.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
  1. Fuck off with this. Trans people are our brothers and sisters and they deserve our vocal and unabashed support just like anyone else. These policies are going to kill many of them. Our love for them may save lives because it shows them that people have their backs. And it is simply the right thing to do. Triangulating is not working as a political strategy. Stand on some fucking morals for once.

  2. Fascism is all about finding a minority and shitting on them. This version is leveraging trans people and immigrants to shit on. Being vocally pro trans is about as anti fascist as you can be right now.

Fascism seeks to divide people. We fight that by fighting for the people who are most marginalized and who they wish to separate from our communities.

[–] tomi000 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are missing the point. If the protests arent taken seriously it doesnt matter whats chanted. Its not about criticizing every thing thats wrong with Trump because many people agree with large parts of it. Its about getting the main message across, that hes a fascist that needs to be stopped.

[–] IzzyScissor 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And you're missing the point that if you're willing to ignore trans people "in order to be taken seriously", then you're siding with the fascists on how to treat trans people. They will take advantage of that.

The existence of trans people is being erased from our government's documents right now. If both sides are ignoring trans people, what the fuck do you think is going to happen? I'll give you a hint:

"First they came for trans people, and I did not speak out- because I was not trans..."

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[–] Crackhappy 2 points 1 day ago

Completely agreed.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Nice to finally see some movement from you guys. Keep it up!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

could we be doing this for more than one day? it's barely even a protest if it's just on one day.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I believe this was intended to kick things off, spread awareness and get the ball rolling. Surely more will follow!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't doubt it. it would be cool and inspiring to help this became a whole movement. I'll have to protest from inside though until the weather stops being frostbite-inducing (hopefully soon)

[–] A_A 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

this spring will see an awakening

[–] AngryCommieKender 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wonder what's going on in Sacramento, that we have no pics.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know if this'll be removed but self-posts without news articles aren't allowed here (rule 2).

Is there a community for content like this? Like a focus on our participation in activism/resistance? Even if not here, this is amazing and something I'd still like to see somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Good call, I edited in an article.

I would really like to see such a community (and on a different instance). I mainly posted this because I don't see much coverage anywhere.

[–] kikutwo 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Uh, probably should have done this before the election.

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

nobody believed us before the election. me and my partner tried talking to people we know about it and they either never heard of it or told us it was a conspiracy theory

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