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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by enub22 to c/General
 
 

I found this cool guide from r/50501. It is from u/MGSFFVII and they spent a lot of time on it. Covers from protesting, to boycotting and eliminating big tech, to recruitment and community.

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I decided to start a list of links as I thought that there was no collection of links. We should collect links and images relating to 50501. Please share this list around. If you want to save this repo to your hard drive, click the view source button and copy. Give suggestions to add or edit to the list, via replies or messages, description is not required but appreciated.

If you are creating a guide or list for protestors, lets link to each other so we can get a info network!

Other lists:

Organizing:

  • 50501 (Linktree) Protest in every state capitol! Find actions/virtual actions, Flyer templates so you can edit to include details, and some other resources.
  • Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election. Sign up with your Email and Zip code to receive actions you can take locally. You can also file a form to start organizing in your own area.
  • Hands Off! Website for the April 5th DC protest led by multiple protest organizations. Don't know if this is a one-off website.
  • Build The Resistance Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
  • Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page.
  • Political revolution
  • Women’s March An organization by feminists. There is an action hub where you can find protests, digital actions, and a People's Toolkit, where you fill out a survey of issues you care about so they can find stuff for you.
  • Stand Up for Science Find protests, local rallies, and local events, to stand up for science. Contains a link to protest safety too, and in the FAQs is a Google Drive for flyers and square images.
  • Tesla Takedown Protest at Tesla dealerships to hurt Musk's gravy train.
  • Americans United Dedicated to the separation of church and state, which means they have to fight Project 2025, which they have a page on. Click on the "GET INVOLVED" button to find events and volunteer.

Transport/Protest Tools:

  • Rally.co Book bus rides to reach your protests! Search and book.

Protesting Areas:

Protestor Guides:

Striking:

  • The General Strike If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
  • Strike For Our Rights A nonprofit that promotes strikes. You can sign a strike card here.
  • SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS Slow down productivity by doing simple mischief to your workplace or possibly any relevant place. Contains advice for the saboteur. Click to get a card.

Boycotting:

  • Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
  • MAGA Trash Search for companies that are MAGA.
  • PublicSquare MAGA website where it has an interactable map full of MAGA companies that have self reported their location to. You even had to sign up to get on this map. You can search with your ZIP code to find MAGA businesses around you. (Note, this is a MAGA website, and someone should archive this.)
  • Bankrupt Trump Find alternatives to products made in the US or Russia. You can search, and pick your location to show local options.
  • Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.
  • Buy Beaver Website and App where you can search and Buy Canadian. Rates each product by how Canadian it is (Manufacturing, Ingredients, Brand) alongside some pictures. Even includes a scanner.
  • Buy European Buy European. Can search, or browse by category, or look for an alternative.
  • Go European Switch to European products and services. Also available as a browser extension. Use filters or categories to find physical or digital alternatives to American companies, or even search for a specific country.
  • European Alternatives "European alternatives for digital products." Search by category or by alternatives.

Home Actions:

  • 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.
  • FaxZero Send free faxes to people, especially your representatives if they are ignoring your calls, which on the home page is links to a list of representatives you can fax to.
  • Democracy.io Email your representatives. Put your address, city, and ZIP, and it will find your representatives and you can email more than one at the same time.
  • Resistbot Bot you can text to via phone. Can mass email/text/fax representatives. I don't completely understand it's paid content coins and premium stuff.

Privacy/INFOSEC/OPSEC/OSINT:

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide Huge guide by many people on how to be anonymous online, or even offline/IRL. Covers many things. If you want to participate anonymously, or do any kind of activist or whistleblower work, this is worth a read.
  • OSINT Framework Big tree of resources for searching and gathering public data for intelligence. Also includes some privacy stuff.
  • Intelligence X OSINT search engine. /tools is also worth a try.
  • OSINT? WTF?? What is open-source intelligence? Explains what OSINT is.
  • EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
  • Tails OS The portable Operating System that forgets. Designed specifically for privacy and activists.
  • The Privacy Raccoon Privacy software list that I recommend. It has most of the stuff I would recommend to anyone for privacy.
  • PRISM Break Another privacy software list that I recommend second.
  • Awesome Privacy (1) (2) Cut away from big tech's control and selling of your data with this awesome privacy list.
  • Privacy Tools For the sake of inclusion, I will also add this privacy list. Not the biggest fan of some of the recommendations.
  • Digital Defense Your own interactable privacy checklist.
  • Practical Privacy Choose your privacy goal path, and follow the card's instructions. Each card has resources.
  • Digital security for activists Part of the Activist Handbook. Explains why you need security, and how to do it.
  • Data Broker Remover Tool Put your email on there, and this tool will tell many data brokers to stop selling your data and remove it.
  • IntelTechniques Has some free PDFs in the Resources section, and some Tools.

Trackers:

  • https://www.project2025.observer/ A website tracking the progress of the Project 2025 agenda, something Trump said he had no involvement with, yet, many of these policies are being implemented right now.
  • https://translegislation.com/ A website tracking anti-trans bills in 2025.
  • https://trumpgolftrack.com/ Your tax dollars at work! Trump spends a big portion of his presidency playing golf rather than working.
  • https://www.realtimefascism.com/ A collection of news articles sorted by the 14 characteristics of fascism. (Performance heavy website for some reason.)
  • OpenSecrets "Your home for money in politics." Check a politician's donors, lobbyists, and read about dark money.

Communities/Social Medias:

Media:

Advice/Writeups:

Turnout:

Other:

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Gem to c/General
 
 

We need to build local state-specific communities on 50501 Lemmy here!

Organizers, Coordinators & Liaisons:

Please create a thread on your state specific communities and you will get access to build a community here! (There will be additional checks to confirm)

See and connect with state organizers already on here by expanding the State Community List | Organizers title in the sidebar!

Here's a Short Tutorial
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Lets get decentralized and away from centralized platform!

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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by admin to c/General
 
 

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I live ~30 minutes outside DC and am planning on attending the protest on April 5. I have a 3yo and 5yo and would like to bring them, but I'm a bit nervous that might be a bad idea.

Anyone here involved in planning or know more details that can give me some advice on how kid-friendly the event might be?

For context, I've been attending political protests since my first in 2003 (against the invasion of Iraq....man do I feel old). I've been to some huge, heavily marketed events like the Women's March in 2017 or the various Marches for Science which I felt would be perfectly kid-friendly. I've also been to some heavily marketed events (a lot in 2020) which I absolutely would NOT want to bring a small child to.

Obviously, if I bring my kids I'm not going to be getting into much more than holding a sign and sticking to the less rowdy parts of the crowd. If things look like it's heating up a bit, my family and I will be out right away. But if this event seems like it might not have a great vibe for kids, I might think about taking them to a smaller event in Frederick or Annapolis instead.

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I want to potentially start an archive, if there isn't one. I need a place to keep up with the evidence of the regime, because there is a lot of bullshit they are doing and we need to organize our evidence to show to people the ugly side of the Trump regime. Turnout, protests, informal videos, footage, evidence articles, anything related. If you need to upload videos, use catbox.moe.

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A video has emerged of the arrest of a Turkish Tuft University graduate, showing her argue briefly with the men in hoodies and black jackets before being taken away.

Tufts University has confirmed that the person is one of their graduates, and that her lawyer has not managed to get in touch with her.

Statement of Tufts University on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3llayvzabtk23

Via @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/114230118930979696

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34943166

https://old.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jg6r8o/reddit_isnt_safe/mj6qhaw/?context=10000

Already signed up. Got the login verification email, followed through and did the security thing, “type the word from our sidebar below” passed all that and can not login.

I appreciate that but don’t bother. I tried with the instance listed in this post and still got the same login issues even after receiving the email to login and passing the security check etc. I deleted the app. I’ve tried enough times and never had any success so I won’t be trying again.

I think they signed up at 50501.chat.

It's a shame that Lemmy is missing out on new users just due to signup issues.

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We know our authoritative govt officials are using Signal to avoid official channels that document conversations.

Signal's also a non-profit with a board of people who seem pro human rights https://signalfoundation.org/en/

Can we can ask Signal for help to:

block government officials from using signal

release conversations that promote authoritarianism (though it may be impossible to decrypt)

something else?

But also, what's an actionable outcome of this.

If (1), they will find another app. If (2), leak to media to publish? but there's no law enforcement anymore.

This may be grasping at straws, but is there something productive we can do here?

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https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf

The letter reads as follows:

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana Dictated over the phone from ICE Detention March 18, 2025

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.

Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.

My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.

I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.

I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted.

While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation — to go unchecked.

Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.

If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.

The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.

Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.

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  • Tesla is already one of the most expensive automotive brands to insure.
  • Insurers warn that rates could soon go up as activists are vandalizing Teslas over CEO Elon Musk's political meddling.
  • Owners have no recourse short of selling their cars.
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