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.
I’ll pose this (revised) question here because I think it might have better visibility.
instead of protesting at the capitals of our states – why don’t we protest at the HQs of the departments Musk is attacking?
lots of benefits
- heightened on-site security
- lots of witnesses
- impenetrable wall of pissed-off Americans
- attacking the administrations goals
I mean…has nobody thought of this yet?
it would at least slow the destruction down, and it’s not like we don’t know what these people look like.
just 24 hour, round-the-clock, protests to keep the jackals at bay. only badged people get in or out. like white blood cells fighting off an infection.
There have been protests at the buildings he’s illegally occupying, but there’s also so many tunnel systems in DC I’m sure they could get in there too. What we need is handcuffs of these rat fucks.
Next phase should probably be to protest at DC. Camp the fuck out there and strike as a nation until Dump is handled.
Take the 60s Civil Rights approach to this.
The left’s answer to the right’s 1950s is the 1960s approach.
Learn from the Civil Rights movement.
The protests didn’t make nearly any national news. Hope the next ones go better.
That’s because the news is controlled by the oligarchy. It’s up to us to spread the word. Share as much content as you can!
I mean my news gave it a fair shot, but ultimately it was just about 50 people waving signs in the middle of a city where 50 people are not even a noticable increase of people usually on that street. I’d say my news was even being generous, by zooming in to try to make the “crowd” fill the screen, but there just wasn’t enough to go on.
We have to face facts that this was a pretty poorly planned event. Someone thinks of going for it on January 25th and expects to organize a national protest in all 50 states with boots on the ground with less than two weeks total in the middle of a school/work day?
If this were, say, the first of a routine series of protests, ok, then over iterations it might have a chance to grow. If it was to be some overwhelming event, well you’ll need more actual planning to get there. As a disorganized blast of thought for a one and done… it was not a good idea.
The revolution will not be televised
The crowds would be much larger if most of us heard about this earlier than 11:58 am today. Absolute garbage organization for this one. I’ve marched in D.C. on more than one occasion and knew about the event at least a month in advance every time.
Meta stifled posts about this.
But, unfortunately, I didn’t see any on Mastodon or Bluesky (granted my circle there is smaller).
This is a response to the rapid escalation of events since the inauguration which only occurred just over two weeks ago. Things are moving fast. The past week has been dizzying, by design.
There will likely be a lot of protests by many organizations that may be organized at the national level or locally until things change for the better, people give up, or people are stopped by the forces we need to protest against. Try to find protests and participate in the ones that you can.
edit: I’m not going to tell you what groups to organize with, but look into groups that organize locally and nationally.
This is the way these things work though. This will get attention. The next one will be even bigger.
This needs to be every week.
We don’t have a month. Look at how much has already happened in the last two weeks. People need to see what’s going on Now.
Things are moving very quickly right now.
I saw it on the first or second of February. Definitely was short notice.
Yeah I heard about it like 2 hours ago. How tf am I supposed to prepare for that?
I heard about it yesterday, but had no time to arrange to take off work.
Annapolis
Austin
Hartford
Madison
DC
Boston
It may not seem like much, but news does travel the world. They have to realize we’re not all idiots over here.
Yeah, a few hundred did actually protest. Like… 0.1 % or something.
Plant a seed, given chance, it will grow. This one, having grassroots, will endure.
Youre expecting 100 million people to walk up to the capitol together?
Given the dire situation, I’d hope to see thousands in each protest.
Given the reality, for this to work, it really needed to be presented as a recurring protest if they want to at least have something on short notice with chance for it to grow in subsequent events. Hopefully by the 3rd or 4th protest it actually seems compelling.
As it stands, it seems exceedingly underwhelming. To those that followed nuance, they know that someone sprung this idea on the internet and this is the result of less than a week and a half of planning and the modest attendance is unsurprising. To those that just see what the protests looked like without context, it doesn’t seem particularly engaging. When those same people that saw the underwhelming attendance also see people saying that the news didn’t make this out to be the biggest thing ever was just because the news is suppressing dissent, they are disinclined to take it seriously.
Trenton
Columbus
Denver
Denver grew!
Proud of Denver, the turn out is incredible today!
