Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend’s effort to ‘protect democracy’
Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month, as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.
By early afternoon, large protests were under way in Washington, New York and Chicago, with images of crowds cascading across social networks showing additional demonstrations in Rhode Island, Maryland, Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, California and Pennsylvania, among others. Americans abroad also signaled their opposition to the Trump agenda in Dublin, Ireland, and other cities.
More than 400 rallies were planned, most loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states, one movement.
50 states, 50 protests, 1 movement.
Ireland: “Can we join in?”
I mean, I appriciate the support, but now we need a new name.
50+Ireland501 just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
‘50+’ works as a name.
Put this guy as the head of marketing. Now Greenland and Canada can join in. I know they want to get in on the fun!
Can 49-year-olds-and-under protest too?
Fox news will call them the calculus mafia in no time.
50+32
Mo dheartháir.
This one felt fucking awesome. I barely hve my voice from screaming so much. Buying a fucking megaphone for the next. Get your asses out and protest people!
I wish I could say the same, the one I attended in Seattle was paltry compared to the last. I am happy to hear that wasn’t ubiquitous though
I was unable to attend, but north texas was way smaller than the last one too.
Also in north Texas. Didn’t go but did make a few phone calls - Chris Van Hollen and the two Texas Republican representatives who voted no to vouchers. Not much, but more than i did yesterday.
I wasn’t able to attend the one near me in PA and I’m kinda bummed, but I’ll just hit up the next one lol
I much enjoyed the Chicago one today! Great turning and many creative posters out there. It was very intense! I loved it!
Oddly, there’s something therapeutic for me about attending protests against fascists and oligarchs.
There’s something therapeutic for us in the rest of the world too. Seeing you guys protesting and not agreeing with what is happening makes us proud of you and happy.
Keep it on, as a famous philosopher once said: “Apes together strong”
The New York City one had a pretty good turnout today
I checked a site and didn’t see NYC listed.
Next time I’ll look further.
Thanks.
Pretty good turnout in SF. We started at the civic center then marched to the Tesla showroom. There was already a protest at Tesla so the two crowds joined up. Nobody at the Tesla showroom showed up to work today.
Check out your local May Day protests, too. Hopefully even bigger than today! I’m ready to do this every two weeks until we are prepared for a general strike.
Get out there people! Today and every day that you can!
If indeed 11 Million people showed up, that would finally be a good begin
To see this through though, it should be at minimum a multiple of that amount and it should last for months before this government will let go.
Good luck
Less than 5% of possible voters as a best case scenario in a peaceful protest… Will be entirely ignored.
Well, didn’t hit 5%, so time to go home everyone. Many thanks to lemming6969 for letting us know so we don’t waste our time.
Fascists will always ignore protests. The point isn’t that the protests themselves will change things, the point is to organize now so that when violence becomes more widespread, resistance groups already exist and can effectively recruit partisans.
This coup isn’t going to end peacefully. It’s time we start realizing that and preparing ourselves to fight.
I can see the value in practice makes perfect, but I still think everything will just be ignored, as they can continue to act via pure policy without obstruction.
I trust, then, that you got out there to add yourself to the numbers? The next big day is May 3. What are you doing to increase these numbers so we can surpass the 5% mark?
Yes but if those same people get on board for a general strike… Suddenly everyone will have to listen.
I understand the Saturday protest mentality right now. We can’t all take a weekday off to see if somebody shows up downtown to protest, but we can meet up on a Saturday to stir the pot and make connections with each other. Strikes take a lot to organize and we don’t really have labor unions anymore.
