This is the perfect time for Americans to learn / re-learn about why May 1st is celebrated around the world.
It would be a massive missed opportunity if it wasn’t a day of action in the US this year.
I was there at one in Los Angeles. Good vibes. I keep thinking that there is simply no good communication methods available for a movement like this. Our social media and even direct messaging is owned by billionaires. They will silently shut down any organized movement to make people stay home and feel hopeless as they doomscroll. It’s happened to me, but today renewed some home. The public needs to adopt fediverse apps, broadly and quickly. And the fediverse has to be ready for the public. It has to be easy to use, easy to explain, have name recognition, and have content to follow. With these protests, I want to convince people to move to fediverse apps but I feel like I don’t have a good elevator pitch. How do I get people who want to get involved, who might have been on Reddit, to jump over here to Lemmy? A business card?? Sticker? A sign? What would go on it, “Join the fediverse! Dump billionaire owned social media”? I’m rambling at this point I feel like but these are my thoughts
There’s over 1000 protests happening around the world today.
Ever single US state Capitol, and in many states there are just as large protests in their other major cities.
I haven’t seen a single one with less than 1000 people in attendance.
That’s min 1,000,000 people protesting today against the global oligarchy.
Hands off our world
If they don’t take their hands off we cut them off
At least 1400 registered. Small tiny ass towns with a population of a couple hundred have 40 people show up. Bigger towns of 200k with 2-5k.
Big cities with millions having tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, possibly even over a million in one instance.
1m people was a minimum. 2m was likely. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more than 3 or 4 million.
My tiny ass town had seventy people show up, including me. Never seen anything like it.
That’s great! Keep posting, legacy media is not doing it.
they’re starting to get covered now (see this and The Guardian)
Correct. More are catching up, but still not enough. I remember when there were protests in every state some weeks ago and no outlet reported them.
You can tell it’s real news if it is called fake news.
What a stupid timeline to be alive.
Depends on who says that lol
If Trump says “it’s fake news”, most probably it’s real.
Nice to see that even American media start to report it. So far, it was only Europe reporting on this.
Hundreds of people out today in our little town. Very surprised by the turnout, was expecting maybe half the amount of people at best. Got connected with a local organization too.
Proud to have attended and spoke at a hands off rally in Portugal.
Thank you for doing your part!
We held our own in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal.
We appreciate your solidarity, friend!
Thank you!
Kansas checking in. It was cold and damp out today, but we still got a great turnout (and a lot of people honking as they drove past to show support).
Hate to tell you that the Republican party and the maga horde didn’t give a crap about peaceful protests. Fascists have rarely, if ever, been peacefully removed.
Today wasn’t about them. It was about us. It was about speaking out and seeking our fellows, and laying the groundwork for future action.
I like this perspective. I hadn’t thought of it this way and until I read this, I sort of felt the same was as them. That times have changed. And where the powers-that-be used to take all things into consideration, we no longer have that luxury or right to be heard- or taken seriously.
Knowing that it’s not expected to move the needle, but to create a collective unification of voices, and to see and be seen….
…definitely lends to its true purpose.
Thanks for sharing this perspective.
I don’t disagree. But I gotta say, I didn’t realize how much I needed to feel the slight glimmer of hope after seeing the turnout at my local protest in person. I live in a pretty small rural town, granted it’s on the northern California coast, and we have a pretty even spread of old school hippies, conservative ranchers, and libertarian cannabis farmers. Today, it felt like the crowd size exceeded everyone’s expectations by far, not to mention almost all folks passing by were supportive. It felt emboldening, like there could truly be some power building here.
I don’t really have high hopes things can be resolved peacefully, tbh. In fact, I watched some MAGAt today stop his truck in the middle of the protest, get out to assault some good folks, and proceed to get his ass kicked to a reasonable extent before driving away. I’m a usually pessimist, sometimes a doomer, and often not wrong. But I think now’s the time to shelve the cynicism and encourage as many people as possible to turn out. The maga horde, the excruciatingly loud minority, need the dose of reality that their opposition is real, gaining momentum, and pissed.
General strikes are next.
It’s about time that the US took May 1st back.
