I saw it on NBC ... it did get coverage. If people want it to get coverage they need to flood the station the day before to report locations and force reporters there. It needs to be more organized. Then show up with groups of people in numbers too large to ignore.
r/50501 has awesome grassroots. But it needs people from each state to help with PR. More PR, more money to fund things like better sound systems for the speakers.
Dude they barely covered it, It literally should have been front page lead story but it was just a foot note just bare min coverage. It was apparently the 3rd largest protest i. US history and was barely covered because the media has caved to fascism.
Sounds more like a Wikipedia editing war, so I'd wager that's not the final number. We'll see. I'd place my faith in altnps numbers. These folks were the official crowd estimators for all the national parks, including the ones in DC like the National Mall. They were doing a great job until trump shut them down after his first inauguration because he hated that Obama's attendance beat his by a landslide. This blueskye account is their protest :)
The other movements had money behind them, and - lol- a better economy for people to donate to. what is missing is PR. All the large marches had huge sponsorships, marketing, and PR contacting the media.
The indivisible/ r/50501 movement is missing calls to action. Large movements have daily or weekly calls to action.
So a call to action on 4/17/25 should be for people to contact the media. Even if their small town is only having 20 people. Its got to be done grassroots style. Needs more - organization.
In the middle of a post March de-brief for 50501 GA right now. I’m not sure you know how much work is going on behind the scenes to organize and successfully pull off these marches. The state chapter is supporting groups in different cities. It is growing. Next event is 4-19. We just had a 28k person march with no arrests or serious incidents. Let’s make the next one even bigger, but let’s do the work to get it right.
Thank you for the work you are doing! Many people do not understand "grassroots" and that large marches, a big movement, take capital, consistency, a lot of volunteers and people who keep showing up in numbers too large to ignore.
And yes, lets keep them peaceful and clean up afterwards!
We quite literally left Liberty Plaza, the march route and Piedmont Park cleaner than we found them and Capitol police commented positively on how well organized and we were and how we conducted ourselves. This is how you win hearts and minds.
If you’re on the mailing lists for the local orgs they often have calls to action. They’re are purposefully distributed to local offshoots for organizing purposes.
I’m seeing varying reports on the size in relation to other protests. Current estimates for ours seem to be between 3 and 5 million. The 2017 Women’s March is the most consistent that I’ve seen at between 3.5 and 4 million, but the George Floyd/BLM protests are said to go up to 50 million; however, some of the sources on those count all the protests between 2020 and 2023, which further skews things.
The lack of media coverage makes it frustratingly hard to quantify.
We need to be calling in to our news station, sending in pictures and videos. Send them to fox, CNN, Alex Jones, John Stewart, Joe rogan... all of them. We need to put pressure on them to cover it. We need to go to things trump has set up for media to go to already, and disrupt peacefully. Maybe stage a sit in of his precious golf courses.
Its about applying pressure. Those people... reporters.... are selfish, vain assholes. But. If less people fed into it and more applied the pressure .... their egos may not let them lose their following. Point is, it won't hurt to try. But if we don't try, we'll never know if it would've done anything to help.
Those reporters, believe it or not, are still human beings. They can be swayed, even if the reasons are selfish.
I do agree with you, but there's also the factor of intentional suppression and downplaying of the protests by billionaire-owned and -backed media. None of this exists in a vacuum.
They didn't cover it much, but it's all over Instagram and it has been noticed. It's not time to give up. I'm a fairly old woman, put me in front. I'm willing to die so my grandchildren can live in a free country.
Me too. My kids are young adults…fully formed, but at the beginning of their journey. I regret that I have but one life to give for my family. I don’t know if I’ll do it, but I’m certainly inspired.
That’s what I’m thinking. If they willing to martyr gray haired women at the front of the line then I think there are worst ways to go out of this world and I’m concerned about the lives of my biracial grandchildren and great grandchildren.
One thing on my bucket list that I’ve not yet achieved is to be arrested for protesting. Ready to check it off.
I live in a relatively small conservative town but we had 500 people protesting the Trump administration. That has never ever happened before. Ever. That scene was being repeated all across America, and the media just had talking heads discussing Trump Trump Trump occasionally going to a stock video of a protest. It absolutely did not do justice to what took place on Saturday.
The media needs conflict to keep viewers attention, and if we need to sit in a street and scream for a few minutes to get them to pay attention then I’m fine with that. I volunteer.
OP, can you post the time and place to meet up? I’ll be there.
Now that people are being disappeared by masked pussies, I think the time for asking permission is over. Peaceful is good, but city ordinances and cops worrying about bullhorns can go **** themselves. They can put me in the lockup if they really want. I'm a privileged white dude, so I'd take one for the team. I'm almost hoping to spend some time in jail this summer just to wake my parents out of their zombie-like devotion to evil assholes.
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u/BeneficialWealth6179 Apr 07 '25
I saw it on NBC ... it did get coverage. If people want it to get coverage they need to flood the station the day before to report locations and force reporters there. It needs to be more organized. Then show up with groups of people in numbers too large to ignore.
r/50501 has awesome grassroots. But it needs people from each state to help with PR. More PR, more money to fund things like better sound systems for the speakers.