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I’m not local but found this info on blue sky and wanted to pass it on to anyone who might be available to join. There is another one starting at 3pm. I will post that info in the comments. In solidarity 💪🤍❤️💙🇺🇸

Originally Posted By u/Eunice_Peppercorn At 2025-04-25 02:22:37 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/pomkombucha At 2025-04-25 01:59:51 PM | Source

From a website I made for my city https://chicodemocracy.weebly.com/national.html.

Companies on this list either: donated heavily to Trump and the GOP the last 5 years, rolled back DEI initiatives, supported Elon Musk, censored the movement, manufacture in El Salvador, and/or advertise on Fox News.

Originally Posted By u/kevshp At 2025-04-25 12:56:42 PM | Source

If you look at a lot of the political corruption we've dealt with in the U.S. over the past 15 years? MOST of the problem comes in the form of 501(4)(c) nonprofits and PACs' bullshit. From direct campaign contributions to independent expenditures, both organizational formats invite corruption like dogshit brings flies.

You can look back to the outcome and drama that was the Supreme Court's decision on "Citizen's United v FEC". The LAST thing we want it for 50501 to become a liberal version of Citizen's United. I know some people may fanboy over their preferred "nonprofit" political advocacy org, but I swear on my name that of all the directions to go, that ain't the way. Keep it decentralized, and have clear boundaries and expectations for the movement.

Originally Posted By u/TheQuietPartYT At 2025-04-25 12:17:08 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/grimace231 At 2025-04-25 01:12:32 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Zacoftheaxes At 2025-04-25 11:44:52 AM | Source

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

This is an emergency!!! All hands on deck, Trump just arrested a sitting judge because he didn’t like her ruling. We must quickly organize and then ACT.

According to this source she should have been before a judge about an hour ago but I cannot find any information confirming that.

We need to get loud and we need to do it now. Contact your representatives. This is a direct attack on democracy.

Originally Posted By u/Canoe-Maker At 2025-04-25 11:50:45 AM | Source

How to attend a local protest without using social media:

1. Go to https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/ and find your local protest

2. Invite your friends and family

3. During the protest ask around about the next date

4. Repeat 2+3 until shit is fixed

Originally Posted By u/angiosperms- At 2025-04-25 10:54:47 AM | Source

I don't care what is happening behind the scenes with the reddit moderators. Think for a moment who is benefitting off your confusion, distrust, and anger?

This morning Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

Call your representatives and let them know it is unacceptable that Trump stifling checks and balances all by arresting those that are maintaining balance.

Use 5calls.org

Originally Posted By u/pause_polymerase At 2025-04-25 11:38:50 AM | Source

Hey! Way at the beginning of the year I saved this listed, copied from aeinstein . org and posted by someone whose handle I didn't save unfortunately. BUT I took the list they shared and turned it into a fold-able zine that you can print and fold and hand out at protests and meetings if you so wish. I have never done this before so the formatting isn't perfect, but i have folded about 5 of these and they turn out well. I just printed a stack to start folding for tomorrow, we have a local rally for Earth Day from noon to 3 at the Wyoming state capitol.

Originally Posted By u/Imaginary_Adagio_929 At 2025-04-25 09:49:00 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/No-Yak2588 At 2025-04-25 11:27:51 AM | Source

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Originally Posted By u/itsokbirdie At 2025-04-24 11:48:12 PM | Source

I’ve decided I’m gonna protest at a major intersection in my city tomorrow, any advice or sign ideas would be appreciated!

I’m nervous but excited 🇺🇸

Originally Posted By u/Stonner22 At 2025-04-24 10:36:44 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/lokey_convo At 2025-04-24 09:22:24 PM | Source

Originally Posted By u/Ayla_Leren At 2025-04-25 02:40:16 AM | Source

There's a simple narrative going on among the far right being presented in little pieces but together forming a whole picture.

The bottom line is that a certain segment of white Americans are terrified that they are becoming a minority. This is always been what the Border conversation has been about.

This is what January 6th was about. They just couldn't handle that they got out voted. And they see White America and Jesus America as the same thing. That's why there were Jesus 2020 flags flying that day.

So we're also dealing with Christian Nationalism. And I know like people like to qualify it as White Christian nationalism but any Christian Nationalism needs to go fuck itself.

In addition to "building the wall" (whether a physical wall or an otherwise functional way to control border crossings), now they're talking about a $5,000 breeding bonus. But do you think they want everyone to have that? I assure you they don't.

Then there's the autism registry which is a first step in a eugenics program. I live in Virginia and our eugenics program only officially ended in 1979. It was actually used by the defense in the Nuremberg trials.

If this were really about growing the US population they would be quite a simple solution to it. Making immigration easier!

I'm wondering how you could turn that into a slogan.

Anybody remember the movie A Boy and His Dog? Not seeming so far fetched.

When the global economy finally collapses they can turn all the distribution warehouses into egg fertilization labs.

But at least they'll have kept the immigrants out.

Originally Posted By u/TerrainBrain At 2025-04-25 08:58:10 AM | Source

Tesla Takedown hosted a call tonight to kickoff their “divest public funds from Tesla” initiative! Tesla Takedown is looking for any volunteers interested in hosting/organizing or participating in calls for divestment. Divestment resources, including an organizing toolkit, step-by-step guidelines, templates and tips can be found here. Also, please sign up here to host or support an action in your city! Tesla Takedown is providing both group and individual mentoring for individuals who want to step up so PLEASE sign up if you have any interest! 💜

Originally Posted By u/NJ50501_Outreach At 2025-04-24 10:22:47 PM | Source

Reading through the accounts of what happened from both sides, I have no idea what to believe. Ultimately, what matters is that all of us continue to do what we have been doing--showing up to the protests and doing everything we can to fight the wave of fascism that is engulfing our country.

I'm not going to let this speedbump turn into a road block. The power of this movement comes from the bottom up, not the top down.

Originally Posted By u/pleasureismylife At 2025-04-25 02:39:20 AM | Source

Originally Posted By u/NH_50501 At 2025-04-25 06:14:21 AM | Source

This is probably something a lot of people are going to be asking for, so I just want to give a quick summary of what I could gather based on all the posts. Feel free to correct me if something seems incorrect. I have no insider knowledge, and this is all stuff I found online.

u/Evolved_Fungi, the original creator of the r/50501 subreddit took some actions without consulting the rest of the national group to take control of a legal entity that was created by some external group. This soured his relation with the other mods, particularly since this was supposed to be a decentralized movement and, especially without consultation, starting to do that without consultation wasn't a great look.

Then, after some of the fallout of the first subreddit lock, he posted a long summary of what happened from his perspective that included some unnecessary NSFW details. This post is now deleted, but if you are curious, there are sites that can retrieve deleted posts by users(I'll refrain from listing them here).

After that post was deleted, some stuff happened behind the scenes(which I don't know of; I'm only going off of public information), and u/Evolved_Fungi stepped down as the top moderator.

However, people who seemed to be u/Evolved_Fungi's friends were still in control of the subreddit. u/greenasacube and u/50501California were removed as mods some number of times by the current moderators of the r/50501 subreddit. Then, a statement was put out by I believe u/50501California which gave a statement on the situation, explaining that u/Evolved_Fungi stepped down, and that the subreddit would be continuing.

The current top mods(who are friends of u/Evolved_Fungi) then proceeded to remove those posts, and then remove the other moderators. Presumably there is some internal stuff going in the background that is not public, but regardless, the end result after some readding and removal of the mods was the posts you see now on the r/50501 subreddit, with u/Evolved_Fungi's friends being the only moderators as far as I can tell.

To give some of my own commentary, this to me looks like a guy started a huge movement, got in way over his head, made some mistakes that he got push-back on, and then got extremely stressed due to all of that. Perhaps that's not true, and, as he claims, he truly was just bullied out of the movement, but personally, I don't see a great reason to trust that as it seems a lot less likely than the movement just growing way too fast beyond him. It is entirely possible that everyone has acted reasonably in this situation, and the stress just got to him way too much. I hope he and his friends end up ok, but to everyone reading this, at the end of the day, this movement has too much momentum to slow down with a simple reddit mod controversy.

I know some of us are chronically online, and this feels big and disastrous, but, really, it's only big an disastrous if we make it to be that way. The movement is much bigger than any subreddit, and we have a lot of work to do.

Originally Posted By u/purewaterruler At 2025-04-25 12:13:06 AM | Source

I think people who were involved with moderation of the sub or who were well connected in the movement need to come forward and provide transparency as to what exactly went down - with receipts.

In the meantime, keep campaigning and organising as usual, perhaps it is better if the movement continues in a more decentralised way anyway.

Originally Posted By u/FourCardStraight At 2025-04-25 01:46:23 AM | Source

Thursday May 1st 5 pm 200 N Washington Ave Courthouse Square. Scranton

Originally Posted By u/Head_Appearance_522 At 2025-04-25 07:54:08 AM | Source

I don't mean this post to shit on anyone who has devoted a significant amount of time to organizing, but I do not feel comfortable blindly trusting you given that the situation is so confusing.

I do not know any of these people IRL. The only evidence I have for EF being problematic in any way is his erratic behavior of pausing the subreddit, which by itself can be attributed to making an impulsive move while panicking. EF has also been accused of lewd behavior but again, since I have no evidence of this, I am not going to believe it because frankly, if I were a Russian troll it's obvious that one of the easiest ways to discredit a man in a leftist movement is through accusing him of a sexual violation.

I have personally witnessed a rising organizer friend be slapped with a felony by the FBI even though he did not commit any crime so I am NOT going to just accept hear-say, especially when the stakes are so high.

I am already seeing a lot of comments accepting and promoting the mental breakdown or sexual violation explanations, or comments suggesting EF is spreading conspiracies or even accusing him of being on drugs. The speed at which this is moving without any room for processing or detailed, soberly-presented explanations makes alarm bells ring in my head. At worst, this is an actual plot to weaken the movement. At best, it is clear evidence of leadership that is not equipped to handle serious problems.

Moderators posting snide comments that are clearly driven by stress/strong emotions is also a yellow flag for me (see the parent of this comment).

It is entirely possible that EF is having an actual mental break, that he did commit a sexual violation, or god knows what else, but without evidence I am not going to follow a bunch of new internet strangers. It does not align with my values for how I want a movement to be led or how I want people within the movement to be treated.

In order for me to feel good about aligning myself with the new subreddit, I would need from the mods concrete evidence of EF's transgressions as well as a commitment from ALL of the new mod team members that they are not going to demonize EF, including shutting down comments that speculate about substance abuse, a mental break, etc. If EF did cause harm to any of the moderators, please clearly explain that. Please note that I am asking for this NOT because I want anyone to relive a hurtful experience but because the stakes are high, I have no idea who you are, and unfounded accusations have been used time and time again by the government and other bad actors to undermine social movements.

Thanks for reading.

Originally Posted By u/dayvancowgirl At 2025-04-25 01:31:43 AM | Source