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[solved] Do you know about the upcoming February 5th event ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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is it well known and do people talk about it ... like in the mainstream media ?

[solved] in the media :
https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
( thanks to irelephant )

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

[caution]

https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
(see comment below by @[email protected] )

Listen,
for folks who don’t know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.

I am not talking out of my ass.

You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer

See also :
GeneralStrikeUS.com
proposed by : @[email protected]

[solved] by : @[email protected]

interface to reddit community: https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/
spreadsheet with info on this and other protests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-rraq_sRU6n-rvGj45AxscxouGVcH03efhMQHJYzc6w/edit?gid=900690167#gid=900690167

Click to show start times

Start times:

Start Times By State (current as of 1/31/2025):

Alabama: No information
Alaska: 12:00 noon
Arizona: 12:00 noon
Arkansas: 12:00 noon
California: 12:00 noon
Colorado: 12:00 noon
Connecticut: 12:00 noon
Delaware: 12:00 noon
Florida: 12:00 noon
Georgia: 11:00 AM
Hawaii: 12:00 noon
Idaho: 12:00 noon
Illinois: 12:00 noon
Indiana: 12:00 noon
Iowa: 12:00 noon
Kansas: 12:00 noon
Kentucky: 12:00 noon
Louisiana: 12:00 noon
Maine: 12:00 noon
Maryland: 12:00 noon
Massachusetts: 12:00 noon
Michigan: 12:00 noon
Minnesota: 12:00 noon
Mississippi: 12:00 noon
Missouri: 12:00 noon
Montana: 12:00 noon
Nebraska: 12:00 noon
Nevada: 12:00 noon
New Hampshire: 12:00 noon
New Jersey: 12:00 noon
New Mexico: 12:00 noon
New York: 12:00 noon
North Carolina: 1:00 PM
North Dakota: 12:00 noon
Ohio: 12:00 noon
Oklahoma: 12:00 noon - 4:00 PM
Oregon: 12:00 noon
Pennsylvania: 12:00 noon
Rhode Island: 12:00 noon
South Carolina: 12:00 noon
South Dakota: 12:00 noon
Tennessee: 1:30
Texas: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Utah: 12:00 noon
Vermont: 12:00 noon
Virginia: 11:30 AM
Washington: 12:00 noon - 2PM
Washington DC: 12:00 noon
West Viriginia: 12:00 noon
Wisconsin: 12:00 noon
Wyoming: 12:00 noon
https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1ifb26m/start_times/

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Love a protest in the middle of the workday, should be easy for most people to attend, no?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You realise that anytime is the middle of the work day.

Not everyone is working 9-5. People work shifts, nights, and weekends.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You realize that there are differences in the populations working at different times, right? Or are you just happy to be seen being outraged?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure I realise that, but I was more pointing out that whatever time a protest is there will be people like you unhappy with it.

I don’t know what gave you the impression I want to be seen outraged and I do hope you’re not making judgments about me over a single comment as that wouldn’t be very good.

It would be like me labelling you for the two comments I’ve seen you post. Positive intent my friend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've already seen someone on Lemmy say that they should feed their kids out of dumpsters if they lose their job that they rely on to live paycheck-to-paycheck (like almost half of Americans) and then their home because they can't pay rent.

And if they lose their kids to CPS because they were made homeless and their parents were arrested during a general strike protest? Hey, they were clearly just MAGA bootlickers anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Everyone just call in sick. Say it is because you didn't want any vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What is the objective here? Are we asking for something specific or just yelling in frustration into the void?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Father Ted references are always welcome.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Careful Now

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

I think it's gonna be one of those things that's supposed to be a thing, but isn't a thing.

But I'm not going to shit all over someone's attempt to make a difference if it's based on genuine good effort and intention.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This will be too short notice and too expensive for many to attend. Generalstrikeus.com has the right idea

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like the issue is with our fellow citizens who voted for him and the congressmen/woman. You can protest all you want but they'll keep getting elected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

If you can disrupt businesses enough then the oligarchs holding Trump's leash will start telling him to behave.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

From what I can see about it, the organisers are some reddit mods. The person who started it was reddit.com/u/Evolved_Fungi. The subreddit is r/50501 and their bluesky is https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social.

A lot of people don't know about it, its gotten almost no attention from the media, that I have noticed. All I have found is one newsweek article https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't start protesting on a week day. Protest on the weekend to get a show of force. If demands are not met, follow it up with a general strike for your next protest.

People will be more willing to join in strike action if they know they are not alone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can't wait for all the pictures of these events with half a dozen people standing around looking lost.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

5th Nov 2024 - was the chance to prevent this. Trump's team made it clear on the direction they were heading and no-one heeded the warnings. 35% didn't vote and the majority of those that did voted for him, which either means they agree with the direction or were deluded into thinking it wasn't going to happen.

I'm all for protest but I don't think you have a chance of changing anything, he owns the legislature and the voting public allowed it to happend.

I'm not American or a resident of US but that's just my opinion as an outsider.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ah yes, voting, famously known for being the only way humans have ever changed their material circumstances.

now that voting has failed us, the only thing left to do is nothing!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly voting didn't fail you. US is in the same predicament UK was in after Brexit. Complacency at the expected outcome, a belief that some people couldn't be so stupid as to vote for Trump/Brexit and yet, they did in the majority.

Regardless of how fucked up the election process is, inany countries I'm not singling out the US, that is the reason that you feel failed, look at your countrymen that swallowed the snake oil and ask the question why?

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