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I'm shocked that I haven't seen one protest yet. Is the media suppressing them? If there aren't any, why?

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are, they are being reported. I couldn’t speculate as to why you are missing them.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Can you provide 3 links to different protests?

Not being snarky. Just haven't seen any reporting on it.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

Ahh… THAT is the difference.

In the US, most of the media is complicit in what’s being protested. And online social media coverage is being contained to small bubbles.

[–] los_chill@programming.dev 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Check out @usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml posts. They are posting pictures of grassroots protests across the country every day. Like has been said, there hasn't been THE big mass protest, but there is constant local activism and protest, just mostly ignored by media.

https://lemmy.ml/u/usernamesAreTricky

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Glad to hear my posts are going noticed. Indeed, there are lot more than you might think. I'll repost one of my long comments with details about protests here. Wrote this five days ago so mentally subtract 5 days from all the times


They are being suppressed in media coverage, but there are people protesting. Media coverage paints a false picture that no one in the US is fighting back

Here's one from today [meaning five days ago] with 1000 people in Boise, Idaho

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Here's a super incomplete timeline with just a handful of the nationwide protests. I'm missing a lot, I'm just showing your the photos I had from recent memory


8 days ago there were national protest for science funding cuts. Here's the main one in DC

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11 days ago there were nationwide protests in all 50 US state capitols + DC + Many cities within those states. This was part of the 50501 movement

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Portland, Oregon

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Monroe, Wisconsin

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San Fransisco, California

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Albany, New York

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Raleigh, North Carolina

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Richmond, Virginia

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Austin, Texas

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Protests Outside Fox News in New York City


16 days ago there were large protest in the Iowa Statehouse

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19 days ago, a protest in Cherry Hill, New Jersy outside Tesla Showroom as part of a nationwide movement protesting Telsas. There have been tons more than just this one and these happen basically every day

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21 days ago, large protests in DC for Ukraine aid

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And so on. There's a lot more going on than just this

[–] los_chill@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Thanks for documenting and posting all these. Keep at it. I appreciate your coverage.

What are they doing that isn’t easily ignored?