There are significant questions about this image! No recognized group attaches its name to it. Some groups are worrying that this is another Russian plot to create chaos on the streets of America. Can anyone vouch for it?
I came here to say the same. Bad actors are saying it's not real because there are different versions of flyers. 🙄 No kidding! People are motivated and making their own! Just because the protests don't have a major org behind them, doesn't mean they're illegitimate!
It's almost like people aren't aware protests have been ongoing for the last 4 years, w/big orgs noticeable absent. I don't know anything about the event on Feb 5th but it's almost like big orgs who were silent during the Biden administration don't want to lose their marks. Could be wrong though.
Well, even some big protests that we know now (BLM, Occupy Wall Street) started with people just getting out there and letting their voices be heard. It's not like their big orgs existed before they started protesting.
Agreed. But in this case I was referring more to MoveOn/Indivisible/VoteBlue type organizations. To be fair I generally watch immigration, anti-right wing extremism and anti-war crimes protests so I might have missed them.
I got the same feeling, mainly because they're encouraging people to go to their state capitols but there don't seem to be any satellite events in other major cities.
You may be on to something.
I’ve seen different graphics for the same event. If an organized group is going to the effort to create multiple versions of it, seems very odd they wouldn’t put their name in it.
Phil, respectfully—it's very typical for autonomous/non-org sponsored action campaigns to spring up at times like this when so many are activated. It's exceedingly unlikely it's a Russian plot, and we cause more chaos/division when we try to play cop about protest organizers.
Respectfully, no. Question all of it.
The links I've seen to "50501" are very suspect. They aren't responding to basic questions & when they do it is just to link to other "events"- be smart, be suspicious. Please.
I haven't scoped out that account fully, but it seems very inauthentic for one anonymous person to say "*we're* calling for a national day of protest," without specifying what is meant by "we."
To the people dunking on the national protests: I've been politically active my entire adult life. I've been contacting my reps, all the usual methods of being active. It's done NOTHING. Can you honestly not recognize the crisis our country is facing? If you don't want to participate, stay home.
People are incredibly angry about what's happening, and people who are supposed to stop it aren't doing anything. Groups that usually organize aren't doing much either. So people took things into their own hands. They're making their own flyers. It's being organized via reddit r/50501
In some instances it's a good idea. Not always necessary, of course. If there was a permit for this it would show the main organizing body IF there is one.
We have to remember that we’re living in different times and that what was once the norm for protest organizers is no longer. Ppl are afraid and groups can be easily surveilled, quashed.
I was just reading up on the March On Washington For Jobs & Freedom this evening, and I saw that planning for it started over a full year and a half earlier, in December 1961! Any sort of major protest needs more planning than this.
Organizing a grass roots protest is about the most American thing I could think of. Would you be more comfortable if it was being sponsored by Starbucks?
Instead of talking down to people, why don't you do something productive like try and connect them to a group you consider "reputable?"
Don't make me turn this car around. 😜
We're all angry and upset, so let's channel that at the right people. If I misread a healthy convo, I'm showing myself out and apologies.
That's my 2 pennies.
Carry on friends 😁
Unfortunately so. I'm not close either. Agree with your point. Can't stop thinking something has to give and shouldn't be our country. We all knew it was coming, so it's like watching a tsunami about to hit land & many of us are not on higher ground.
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No groups are attached because democracy doesn't need sponsors.
I’ve seen different graphics for the same event. If an organized group is going to the effort to create multiple versions of it, seems very odd they wouldn’t put their name in it.
The links I've seen to "50501" are very suspect. They aren't responding to basic questions & when they do it is just to link to other "events"- be smart, be suspicious. Please.
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/
https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhag7plcl22m
It's reasonable to look for somebody suggesting we actually try to do something.
You could ask the users and moderators there for more info
She has several long threads on the subject.
Instead of talking down to people, why don't you do something productive like try and connect them to a group you consider "reputable?"
We're all angry and upset, so let's channel that at the right people. If I misread a healthy convo, I'm showing myself out and apologies.
That's my 2 pennies.
Carry on friends 😁