Protests against Trump's actions are planned across all 50 states Wednesday, with organizers rallying under #buildtheresistance. Follow Newsweek's live blog.
There's a protest planned for today near you. If you'd like to attend below is a bit of info.
The instant anything is posted on here it's already been scraped. Know this. Act accordingly.
Some tips to help you out
don’t take your phones to the protest
if you take a burner, don’t take it home. buy it, and trash it at the protest.
don’t take anything that could identify you as you
superglue and baking soda on your fingerprints. don’t go crazy, just enough to make printing you impossible/difficult
write any important phone numbers on your arm or ankle in permanent marker if you can’t remember them
stuff a couple hundred dollars for bail in your shoe
don’t give ANYONE your real name. don’t care how hot they are or how impassioned they are, just fucking don’t
designate one trusted individual to come get you from jail. they are not to bring their phone, they should park at least 1/4 mile away and walk to get you(long enough to realize you’re being tailed by police).
Pay attention to your surroundings, specifically the movement of officers/agents. if they’re running you should be too. if there’s a large group marching or a wall marching, leave immediately and regroup.
ICE will be there. they will be picking people up. many of them not illegal. if you’re not white, wear makeup if you can get away with it. paint your face with state colors if need be. not a mask, so it shouldn’t be covered by “no-mask” states.
Know your rights. Bring the proof of your rights. Force them to acknowledge your rights.
Stream everything.
If you are picked up you will;
go on a list
be unlawfully monitored
become a link in a larger web to ensnare organizers
You will now go dark for at least a month. No social media posts about the protests, no discussions about the protests, nothing. After that, it should be difficult to pair your online activity with your real world activities.
If you can’t make it to the protests, record the streams, share them online, pressure the public to demand answers for the crimes committed by the officers/agents.
One last thing.
There will undoubtedly be people there to provoke the protests. do not let them. once one incident of violence is determined all bets off and the police will become physically involved.
Trust no one, question everything, power to the people. 🫵
This message from a colleague will live here until the death of Lemmy
For further research here's a great video on mutual aid.
Do not write a phone number on your arm if that number could be used to identify you or your emergency contact. Defeats the purpose of all the other anonymizing steps.
Bans: ReadMoreBooks - Actively and consistently counterproductive.
Not to mention sliding into paranoia with:
You're the moderator's alt. [lol no] Objectively the algorithm [???] says the writing styles are a very good match. Subjectively you're engaging the same tactic of introducing a red herring.
I see through you like glass. As soon as you realize that you'll ban me. But, you'll have no satisfaction because, right now, in this thing, I know you better than yourself.
The comment threads on this post will remain for posterity.
No one can identify the organizers. It's being held without the involvement of any group of organized leftists.
The guidance posted in this thread recommends streaming of video evidence and propagation of that video. This is a blatant violation of operational security.
Revolutionary events are never shared with major media outlets. Major media outlets would not propagate them.
Do NOT attend this event. You WILL be identified by your oppressors. It WILL become a threat to your security. We CANNOT save you from the consequences.
Every action has a level of risk. Doing nothing is not acceptable.
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I see you.
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Given all the evidence, it would be extremely unwise to attend this event.
The fact that you felt the need to speak as a moderator instead of defeating my claims with the facts and reason you should've had before you supported it should serve as a red flag to for yourself and others.
You may agree with what @ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip is saying or not agree. Being cautious of the motives of strangers on the internet is important. But also know that they may be going through some shit right now. I regret agitating them as I don't want to contribute to whatever it is they're going through.
This is a marathon not a race and you don't need to be at a march to contribute.
Wow, thanks for all that! I caught a little bit of information on this last night, but it was so thin at the time that I didn't think it would be useful to post.
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