I am far more interested in looking into the source for the claims from “some of my more active friends” and so on, than I am in the source for this. When those people were trying to throw cold water on the idea of attending that protest, I asked all of those people what protests their more active friends would recommend instead, and none of them pointed me to one or to any further information. You would think that the active friends would be interested in disseminating that kind of information of course. Strange that they are not.
It took all of thirty seconds of searching to find:
Is this legit? I have no idea. Of course questioning unsourced information is good. But like I said, I don’t think it really matters all that much in terms of whether it’s a good idea to attend the protest itself, and I think it’s strange that there is this sudden extreme tension and discomfort with the idea of attending protests, sourced from several people’s more active friends or similar, none of whom are interested in sharing more information about any protests that they would feel more comfortable with.
Edit: Actually, probably the safest of all possible ways you can get involved in some kind of resistance to Trump is to see one of these images with just a place and time, show up in person to the thing, and talk with the people who happen to be near you and make some random connections. It won’t be completely safe of course. But it will be far better than blabbing all over the internet, or signing up for some kind of mailing list, or subscribing to whoever’s feed on Bluesky, or whatever. I think any “group” you’re likely to interact with on the internet might wind up leading to you getting put on a list, eventually, one way or another. Showing up in person and meeting random people is an infinitely better way to get plugged in.
Oh, I definitely was unclear then. My hope is that with more information, more people might be motivated to share and participate, making these events more impactful.
Yeah, fair enough. A lot of the sharpness of my reaction was because of what happened on the last post, which to me was hella suspicious. You were just asking an interested question and I used it as an opportunity to talk about some stuff that bothered me the last time.
I did find more stuff about who’s behind this group, but as I said in my edit, I actually think just showing up is probably better than poking around and doing a bunch of internet interaction with “resistance” or protest groups.
Heh, I kind of figured that, I caught the other post just before this one. No harm, no foul. You raised important points, and gave me chance to actually say what I was intending to be heard.
… just showing up is probably better than poking around and doing a bunch of internet interaction with “resistance” or protest groups.
I am far more interested in looking into the source for the claims from “some of my more active friends” and so on, than I am in the source for this. When those people were trying to throw cold water on the idea of attending that protest, I asked all of those people what protests their more active friends would recommend instead, and none of them pointed me to one or to any further information. You would think that the active friends would be interested in disseminating that kind of information of course. Strange that they are not.
It took all of thirty seconds of searching to find:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/02/12/national-no-spend-day-economic-blackout-amazon-walmart/78410711007/
https://jointhepeoplesunion.com/
Is this legit? I have no idea. Of course questioning unsourced information is good. But like I said, I don’t think it really matters all that much in terms of whether it’s a good idea to attend the protest itself, and I think it’s strange that there is this sudden extreme tension and discomfort with the idea of attending protests, sourced from several people’s more active friends or similar, none of whom are interested in sharing more information about any protests that they would feel more comfortable with.
Edit: Actually, probably the safest of all possible ways you can get involved in some kind of resistance to Trump is to see one of these images with just a place and time, show up in person to the thing, and talk with the people who happen to be near you and make some random connections. It won’t be completely safe of course. But it will be far better than blabbing all over the internet, or signing up for some kind of mailing list, or subscribing to whoever’s feed on Bluesky, or whatever. I think any “group” you’re likely to interact with on the internet might wind up leading to you getting put on a list, eventually, one way or another. Showing up in person and meeting random people is an infinitely better way to get plugged in.
Oh, I definitely was unclear then. My hope is that with more information, more people might be motivated to share and participate, making these events more impactful.
Yeah, fair enough. A lot of the sharpness of my reaction was because of what happened on the last post, which to me was hella suspicious. You were just asking an interested question and I used it as an opportunity to talk about some stuff that bothered me the last time.
I did find more stuff about who’s behind this group, but as I said in my edit, I actually think just showing up is probably better than poking around and doing a bunch of internet interaction with “resistance” or protest groups.
Also, the EFF’s guide to safely attending a protest: https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
Heh, I kind of figured that, I caught the other post just before this one. No harm, no foul. You raised important points, and gave me chance to actually say what I was intending to be heard.
You are 100% correct.