What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history | Will Bunch
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The “No Kings” movement brushed off its doubters with a record turnout that gave protesters hope in an age of insanity.

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What naysayers don’t get about ‘No Kings,’ the biggest protest in U.S. history

leaders with the most prominent Trump-resistance group organizing “No Kings” answered that complaint Saturday when Indivisible’s Ezra Levin took to the stage in Minneapolis and announced that a nationwide general strike is planned for May 1, modeled after a successful local action that shut down much of that region in January

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 hours ago

    My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June.

    And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I expected the place I went to have like maybe twenty people and there ended up being hundreds. This is in a deeply red area. We got so many cheers and honks of support from people in traffic. Like it was non-stop horns the whole time. It was only an hour long protest, but it was so incredible. I spoke to a group of 5 protestors who used to be MAGA, but realized they were wrong. They said they were protesting to try to change the minds of the people they used to be like and to make up for helping bring about the meds we’re all in. The whole thing made me a lil hopeful for the future and I was riding the good mood from it all the way through Sunday.

    • FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafeEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      Don’t forget about the primaries! See if there are any progressive candidates running in the dem primaries on your ballot. Vote for them in the primaries even if you don’t think they have a shot. Even if they don’t win, a close race could be a sign to the establishment dem that things are changing and if they want to keep getting elected (to collect their bribes) then they need to change their platform. Plus every vote for a progressive candidate encourages them to keep fighting the good fight. If you have the time and resources, volunteering if also really good, but obviously not everyone can

      All this being said though, yeah I still wish there were just more good candidates