I'm making a comment based on feedback from 50501 PDX: they DO NOT want to do a march on the 19th because most of us are white and we don’t want to take that day away from Black people.
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Proposal for June Event Dates
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Date: April 17, 2025
This proposal outlines suggested dates for the next events in June. The timing considers organizers’ needs, significant historical context, and potential permit restrictions in various locations. The timeline is designed to visualize the proximity of these events and prepare ahead for mobilization.
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Proposed Dates & Focus of Upcoming Events
June 1 – Sunday – Beginning of Pride Month
- Focus: LGBTQ+ Liberation and Anti-Fascism
- Description: Launch Pride Month with a reaffirmation that Pride is rooted in protest. Focus on the defense of queer rights, trans youth, and community safety amidst rising legislative attacks.
June 6 – Friday – D-Day Anniversary
- Focus: 50501 Veterans’ Nationwide Call: “Not On Our Watch”
- Description: Veterans from the movement have proposed this day as a nationwide mobilization to stand against authoritarianism and fascism. Honor the sacrifices made in World War II by continuing the fight for democracy and justice today.
June 14 – Saturday – Flag Day & Trump’s Birthday
- Focus: Reclaim Patriotism
- Description: Counter Trump’s symbolic use of military spectacle and American iconography. Reclaim the flag for the people. Highlight who the country truly belongs to — not billionaires and tyrants.
June 19 – Thursday – Juneteenth & Solidarity Day
- Focus: Economic and Racial Justice
- Description: Mark Juneteenth by drawing on the legacy of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Uplift demands for a guaranteed income, land and labor rights, and abolition of poverty. Highlight solidarity across movements and identities.
June 23 – Monday – Title IX Anniversary (1973)
- Focus: Gender Justice & the SAVE Act
- Description: Use this day to reinforce the fight for women’s rights, gender equity in education, and defense against regressive legislation like the SAVE Act. Highlight the broader threats to bodily autonomy and gender justice.
June 27 – Friday – Stonewall Uprising Anniversary
- Focus: Queer Liberation & Radical History
- Description: Honor the radical origins of Pride and the Stonewall Riots. Reinforce intersectional demands for racial, gender, and economic justice. “Stonewall Was a Riot” becomes more than a slogan — it’s a call to action.
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Perhaps it'd be a great day for a "Date of Action" to promote mutual aid?
I feel like we should be uplifting Black, Bipoc peoples orgs and volunteering to help them not take the day and make it ours. We should already be doing this in general but I agree with your group.
June 14
Title: Trump's Bigly Bad Birthday Bash
Theme: The Emperor Has No Clothes
A nationwide day of satirical street theater. Organizers everywhere will stage public birthday parties for Trump that expose his corruption, incompetence, and vanity with humor, creativity, and ridicule, but without touching anything military. We’ll dress up, create absurd floats and props, and show the country that Trump isn’t a strongman; he’s a joke.
Trump wants to be celebrated as a powerful emperor. We’ll “celebrate” him but as a naked, crumbling fraud whose empire is a sham.
Themes and Visual Ideas:
- The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Bodysuit costumes, gold crowns, oversized fake jewels.
- Fake Awards Ceremony: Giant trophies labeled “Biggest Liar” or “Best Coup Attempt.”
- Birthday Party Gone Wrong: Sloppy cakes, melting candles, sad “Happy Birthday, Loser” banners.
- Golden Toilet Thrones: Celebrate his real legacy!
- Made America Gag Again: Red caps, but they say GAG instead of MAGA.
- Broken Promises Balloons: Helium balloons with slogans like “Mexico Paid for It!” “It’ll Be Over By Easter!” “Total Exoneration!” that deflate as the event goes on.
- Fake Billionaires’ Club: Parade of people in tuxedos and tiaras, throwing fake money.
- Carry giant fake birthday gifts labeled “Another Indictment,” “More Lawsuits,” “Bankruptcy.”
Here's a link with more details: https://drive.proton.me/urls/AG4G43N7HR#WHxubIFXZCqr
Personally I will be helping on D-Day with Veterans that is already in the works. I am still feeling out what everyone in signal Florida chat is wanting.
I think 6/6 would be extremely powerful. It’s a day of anti-fascist resistance, and we could support the veteran’s groups that want to do it then.
6/6!
Trump's birthday has my vote. He's gonna throw a fit if he doesn't get the larger crowd.
Did you see my suggestion of "Trump's Bigly Bad Birthday Bash" with a theme of the "Emperor Has No Clothes"?
I think June 14th would be the most impactful. And leaves us in a good position to act early in July if we decide to.
6th of June is a date already discussed here in Colorado and very highly liked also 6th of june is very important to me cause my grandfather fought in ww2 also I studied each and every battle from d-day I do hope the 6th gets picked
Hawai'i perspective - Large LGBTQ presence, large military presence, not patriotic. I vote supporting vets on DDay since that info is already going out, supporting orgs on Juneteenth since its a federal holiday, and doing our own LGBTQ focused event on either June 1st or June 27th. I think we should plan something like a blackout for Trump's bday. No one buys anything, no one goes anywhere, no one uses social media. Or we do the thing where we flood X with posts. Something visible we can do that isn't a protest.
I agree 💯 particularly like the idea of a blackout on his birthday.
I think Flag Day is perfect. Ignore the other thing correlated to the date and take the flag back.
June 14 date for a National Event. [I'm posting this on behalf of someone else] Just throwing out thought for name…Reign in his parade. Theme ..no fraud, waste & abuse on our backs.
I vote June 14 for these reasons:
From the perspective of our smaller-city group: Weekend protests are much more doable for us in places like Eugene, Oregon. Most of our small team works weekdays and has to take time off to do any weekday events. Weekday national dates present a major strain on our already resource-strained team.
We get WAY more turnout for weekend events.
Also, picking national holidays/days of remembrance often lead to us having to compete with other local organizations to hold our events, rather than being able to team up with those other orgs on our respective events.
May Day, for example, has put us in planning conflict with a labor-union event that had already been planned on the ONE good spot to hold a protest in town. Similarly, Juneteenth would put us in a situation where we are in conflict with POC-supportive organizations for the narrative and crowd of that day, and would require us to support/combine with their events rather than hosting our own. (We want to support them too, but it complicates things when that is the day that we have to advertise our own event).
I thought the veteran's group was doing 6/6
Yep! We would be joining 50501 Veterans if 6/6 is chosen. They brought it to our attention.
6/6 to broaden our coalition and general reach as a non-partisan movement. "Not on our watch" puts pressure on military and government leaders to act in upholding the Constitution and protecting America as they took an oath to do. It's a direct challenge. Will they let fascism continue to fester and rage unopposed? Or with there will an uprising of those who swore to protect us?
I think Juneteenth, we should DEFINITELY amplify local events, listen and let black folks lead. The movement should avoid seeming as if it's trying to co-opt the holiday. Give space, amplify, protect, engage, listen, learn, educate, do the work to dismantle internal biases and uplift folks who have been out here leading for years.
Separate it into its own comment right now it's nested under the original comment and not sure it will raise the same way but again, I'm not 100% sure because this is new to me.
In the future, I think you may want to separate these 2 different topics. People are upvoting and downvoting comments right now and by putting 2 dates and ideas in one comment it might not get as much support because some people might agree with one and not the other. I could be wrong though. I'm still learning.
Good point, I'll separate! Thanks!
I think Flag day would be best as it's a general day symbolizing democracy. I would stay away from Trump's birthday messaging as I think the date will speak for itself. I also thinking choosing a Saturday is important.
6/14 [I'm posting this on behalf of someone else] I was thinking about something like, since Trump appears to want to celebrate war and power on that day, maybe we celebrate peace and justice.
6/14 [I'm posting this on behalf of someone else] Since Trump will likely try to celebrate what he sees as his accomplishments so far, we focus on all the ways he has harmed everyday Americans — tanking the economy, devastating cuts to federal services, deportations without due process, etc.
National FDT Day June 14th
Juneteenth is a good day to see what might already be happening in our areas and strengthening our coalition.
Definitely June 14th and wish there were more Sat options for national dates
One concern I have with Saturdays is there aren't a lot of "points of interventions" on Saturdays. Law makers out in decision making places on Saturdays. Trump loyalists aren't likely at work on Saturdays. So, Saturdays become more symbolic days of action rather than strategic days of actions outside places where people we want to influence are located. I would like to see 50501 move away from symbolic demonstrations and towards more strategic protests.
I’ve seen some groups maintain a chat dedicated to “pop up protests” for these “points of intervention”. They usually only give a week or two worth of notice for these events. They don’t attract the same number of people, but they are still able to get their message across to stakeholders and the press.
For national days of action that we communicate out far in advance, I lean towards dates that let the most people participate.
If you would like a Saturday make a comment for a specific Saturday date with a proposed them and see if people up or downvote it to move on to the voting round. :)
Proposal for June 6:
On June 6th 2025, the Anniversary of D-Day, Mass 50501 will hold an event in remembrance of our heroes in uniform.
Our mission is the preservation of the democracy that they fought and died to protect on the shores of Europe.
We will feature speakers who are themselves veterans, who will speak on history, duty, honor, sacrifice and patriotism.
We will conduct a wreath laying ceremony at the Soldiers and Sailors monument at Boston Common, and also feature patriotic renditions of Taps, Battle Hymm of the Republic, and other songs.
We will protest cuts to the VA, we will oppose the undemocratic way in which the administration has treated its duties, and we will remind the people that veterans and active duty exist to protect the nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It will be both a protest and a solemn event of remembrance.
This administration does not honor veterans but we will.
This will be a citizens event, with no elected officials as speakers.
I'm making a comment based on feedback from 50501 PDX: They want to do TWO dates. If we can do two in April I don’t see why we can’t do two in June because they would be spaced farther apart than the April ones were.
I think we should optionally be with 50501 Verterans on D-Day. Not a nationwide day for all of 50501.
Weekend dates bring in the most people. Others have already suggested June 14th, so I’ll throw in my comment for Saturday, June 28th.
Any plans or ideas for the 27th regarding pride could also be used for the 28th
The Stonewall Riots are said to have started on the 28th since the riots took place in the early morning hours. wikipedia
I want to write a lengthy post on a topic because I haven't seen anyone raise this point on a massive scale.
WEEKDAYS ARE CLASSIST and we should not do them for national days. If States want to host events on weekdays, let them.
I know that historical dates are sexy and symbolic, but the fact of the matter is that the working and lower middle class don't often have the luxury of attending weekday protests. I believe the 50501 movement has a massive image problem of appearing too much as "2016 era Resistance Liberals" and while I've spoken to many state organizers I know this is not the case, weekday protests do not help this image problem. In particular doing a Mayday protest on a weekday is something that in my opinion plays very well to educated upper middle class people, but to working class people they think "it will cost me 140 dollars in lost wages to attend this protest".
The above image problem is not something that hosting weekday protests will fix immediately. It won't instantly cause the working class and lower middle class to flock to us in droves. But not addressing this will only worsen this problem and set this perception in stone if it is not addressed.
I think this is right, but would also say that many working people work on weekends. When I was a restaurant worker most of my days off were Mondays and Tuesdays. So I think weekends are a good proposal generally, but I don't know that framing weekends entirely around class is fair. People will see 50501 as aligned with the working class when it represents policies and efforts aligned with the working class, not just what day of the week a protest is held on.
There is a difference between a protest and a demonstration. Protest = A crowd gathering in public to express disagreement with, or disapproval or anger or frustration toward, a specific individual or organization that is at or near the crowd’s gathering point (e.g., a politician giving a speech, a corporate headquarters, a bank branch, a construction site, a city hall), or in negative reaction to a recent or current event (e.g., the killing of George Floyd, the reversal of Roe v. Wade).
Demonstration = A crowd gathering to demonstrate their support for a set of political demands or claims to an external audience, typically with things like signs and banners and flags displayed to passers-by in a public space. This is probably the most common type of action.
Demonstrations are mostly symbolic. "Contemporary movements seem to rely more on street demonstrations than other methods of nonviolent action, such as mass noncooperation, like work stoppages, walkouts, rolling strikes, boycotts, or general strikes. Symbolic displays of resistance do not necessarily weaken the opponent’s sources of power." ~ Erica Chenoweth
May Day has been a day for working class people since the 1880's. Workers have often taken this day off to demand better for the working class. My local 50501 group was invited to join a May Day action from a working class immigrant!
On the weekend, who exactly are we protesting and where or are you suggesting recruitment rallies?
Quite the opposite, actually. Weekend protests are what are classist. In my 20’s before I had my union job I worked EVERY weekend in the service industry. The only people who I know that work M-F 9-5 work at banks, in finance, or in upper management. I have a career now and I still work weekends because its blue collar work. Our May Day protest will actually be held during the day near the college campus, because the college students cant attend or interact with us otherwise. They work weekends because they have school during the week so they have requested this of us.
I support/vote for all of these dates!
I vote for June 6, in support of our Veterans and the is a the anniversary of Dday against Nazi Germany. I think it highlight that we are in a constitutional crisis.
Additionally, I would vote for a blackout on tRumps bday. ESPECIALLY where he will be holding his ‘huge’ parade- I’ve heard he wants it to go from DC to the Pentagon 😱 and have tanks that would tear up the roads😱😱. So stupid, wasteful and disrespectful. I think if the crowd turn out was a big goose egg(=0). It would humiliate and piss him off. Don’t give the dog attention. Js.
As far as Juneteenth and Pride, I think we should support our local events happening for BIPOC and LGBTQ+. Just my two cents.
As far as always hosting on Sat vs weekday goes… I don’t think it is problem to host on a weekday OR weekend with advance enough notice! I would say our working class is just that… working! And needs to plan ahead. Working class includes bankers (who often work Saturdays), construction workers, transportation operators, food service industry folks, and more who work… no matter the day! That’s why April 5 was so great bc people could plan months in advance. So whatever we decide we need to do it quick.
June 27 is a great day for educating that Resistance isn't just symbolic demonstrations but actions to enhance our rights.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday as well as being important. I vote Juneteenth
You don’t think the orange buffoon will cancel it?
North Carolina would like to support our 50501 veteran group organizers on June 6th and host our own event on June 23.
June 6th as the first date for the month and then June 27th as the second date for the month
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June 1st as the first date and then the 23rd for the second date.
I don't think we should do two dates that are about Pride month as that's too much. We also should do at least 1 historical date that month.
I think Stonewall is a fantastic date but the Title IX gives space for some really cool Handmaid scenes at the protests.
In the future you may want to make separate comments for each item so people can up/down vote them separately;