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.

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

Trump's birthday has my vote. He's gonna throw a fit if he doesn't get the larger crowd.

I thought the veteran's group was doing 6/6

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.

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).

Personally, I am pro 6/14 being our main day of protest, but I also want to uplift 6/6 (more as a day of action/support/community)

I think have demonstrations on 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. And then, on 6/14, having all of our groups stand up together on Flag Day would be a cherry on top

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 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.

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.

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

Definitely June 14th and wish there were more Sat options for national dates

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?

6/6!

Juneteenth is a good day to see what might already be happening in our areas and strengthening our coalition.

National FDT Day June 14th

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] 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.

I think we should optionally be with 50501 Verterans on D-Day. Not a nationwide day for all of 50501.

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.

Our group, Mass 50501, will likely have actions on 6/6 and 6/14. We have already been planning a 6/6 D-Day event that is led by our Veteran members. We are hoping this will be a large-scale event despite it being a Friday.

June 14th is Boston Pride. It is an enormous event in our city. We would not be able to do a secondary protest in Boston. Since many of our members are LGBTQIA+, we have already signed up as a supporting organization and are sending a marching group. We are encouraging all local orgs who are are in coalition with to sign up to march and to send their membership bases to the Pride festivities. Having a giant joyful party for one of the marginalized groups this administration is trying to erase feels like the perfect act of resistance while Trump throws his North Korean-style birthday bash.

I vote for both dates but if 6/14 wins, I would love to see some other states use this as an opportunity to lift up their LGBTQIA+ communities!

June 14th, please!!

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.

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 think having one day as the big national day might help focus the turnout. Many of the proposed days seem good to me. I like that we are having more than one big day in April but I think by having only 1 planned far in advance leaves more space and capacity for smaller localized actions or for last minute actions responding to a particular event in this rapidly evolving situation.

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.

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.

🧮 First-Choice Totals (Public + Organizer Weighted ×10)

🔄 RCV Elimination Rounds

Round 1 – Eliminate June 23 (65 votes)

Totals after Round 1

Round 2 – Eliminate Stonewall (162 votes)

Totals After Round 2

Round 3 – Eliminate Juneteenth (346 votes)

Totals After Round 3

Round 4 – Eliminate Pride (1,027 votes)

🏁 Final Totals

🏆 Winner: June 14 – Flag Day & Trump's Birthday

Final Vote Count: 2,607

Majority Needed: 2,361 ✅ Majority Achieved

Juneteenth is a federal holiday as well as being important. I vote Juneteenth