No Kings Unveils a Big New Trump Protest, and the Stakes Couldn't Be Higher
Ezra Levin of Indivisible on how protest can stop Donald Trump’s authoritarianism.
Thing I like about the No Kings protests is that they actually get the word out in advance.
Usually if there's a protest, I don't hear about it until the morning of or the day after.
October 18th, for people just checking the comments.
I already know ours is going to be awesome, and it's going to tie into our Pride that day, which is happening just a few blocks away - they'll all become the last float in the parade as they march. YES
Take some responsibility and get plugged into your local resistance communities so you find out about protests in advance! The mainstream media generally doesn't cover protests—much less in advance—unless they're gigantic and/or somebody is bleeding.
Show up be organized let everybody hear and see us! If you can’t attend post about it spread the word we will not just sit by and watch these monsters take everything from us!
There have been plenty of others near me but then again we are being invaded by ice.
Sorry to be super off-topic, but I'm relatively new to Lemmy and I can't figure out why it says there are 47 comments on this post, 26 of which are new, but I only see 3.
Does it show the same when you're logged out? I went through the lemmy.ca instance and I can see all the comments. https://lemmy.ca/post/51264567
Is it the same if you access it through another instance? https://lemmy.world/post/35644615 or https://lemmy.zip/post/48232622
I logged out and I could see that there was a guy who is banned from the community had made a comment, and and all the responses as well as the original comment isn't visible once I'm logged in. I don't think I'm missing much tbh, lol
Thanks so much for your help!
The steak couldn’t be hired.
Why was it called "no kings"? That always struck me a stupid name created by people who probably voted for hillary/biden in their primaries.
We should be saying "no rulers" or "no oligarchs."
As usual, neo-libs miss the mark because they can't comprehend how their politicians are also part of the problem.
This is a lesson on marketing. "No Kings" rolls off the tongue. Monarchy invokes autocracy/dictatorship, it's an easy transition into connecting that it's the opposite of democracy.
"Rulers" kind of include democratically elected ones. "Oligarchs" are too targeted and a big word. And like you said, there are other problems too.
What's why "Fake News" and "Make America Great Again" worked so well. Simple and stupid, an elementary schooler can read it. And have enough ambiguity that they can be interpreted however the listener wants to.
The organization had tried other slogans for their protests, none brought out more people like "No Kings". Give people what they want I guess.
Yeah. I wish we could get these kinda numbers on a more targeted kinda thing, rather than just "orange man bad," but I guess I'll take what we can get lol
oddly it was the other way around. "no oligarchs" was something that conservatives dismissed as a liberal thing. So no kings was more to the point and didn't have liberal connotations.
Yeah, libs are the problem that “no kings” protests against! Thanks, Obama
The people voting against the working class are the problem.
At the time it first came out, that was a popular slogan. Its the idea that Trump wants to make himself king of the U.S.A., so its an anti-trump and pro democracy slogan.
Its been a minute since I was active in that space, but I imagine it is the functioning national parts of the 50501 and similar progressive liberal resistance movements that Our Revolution PAC is putting their resources into.
When I was involved, I wouldn't have called them neoliberal. The mass current was mostly progressive liberal, with militant radical elements on one side pushing no work with police, recognition of Palestinian genocide; and the other side being quite conservative, sort of "a lot of MAGAs are angry too!" who pushed for depoliticization and police collaboration. There were some genuine socialist radicals fighting on a national level, and winning ground. Also lots of local radicals like PSL and various abolitionist anarchists on the local level fighting for their communities and providing education.
The character is more like liberal social democrat, if I had to judge the first no kings protest. But things have likely changed since then.
If you're not showing up prepared to get arrested, you're just doing a parade.
I'm sure this will give everyone a nice chance to pat themselves on the back for pretending to do something, though.
What a stupid comment. Just showing up to a protest is far more than most people do. Do you think the No Kings protest would have had so much coverage if only 100 people went to it?
hear hear.
Sure.
Going out to vote is a better idea.
But then again, republican gerrymandering makes your vote pretty much cast into the void.
would you rather get nothing? because most people aren't willing to risk their livelihood for this and the first step of action is centralization! get people talking, learn how to help.
RTFA
Agreed.
I tend to agree, protesting in blue cities and states is preaching to the choir and achieves nothing. Take that to DC or your closest red state.
Safe protesting is not protesting.
I live in a red state, and I plan to be at my local protest. But I take offense to the idea that protests in blue states are somehow too "safe" or not worth the time. The shit that has gone down at protests in Los Angeles should counter that notion pretty handily.
Honestly, the protests I've been to in my red state were way safer than the ones in LA, with way less push back from law enforcement. Probably helps that ICE isn't operating in my city either.
