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.
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.
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.
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.
I saw a bunch of posts on lemmy the past 24 hrs
Annapolis
Austin
Boston
Madison
Trenton
Hartford
Columbus
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.
DC
Raleigh
Denver
Denver grew!
Proud of Denver, the turn out is incredible today!
Charleston
Albany
Saint Paul
Lol, every other capital gets named, but Minnesota’s. Was this one not in Saint Paul?
That was my bad. It was a hectic day trying to keep up 😅 I’m not even an organizer of the event. Just a guy trying to spread the word.
