Every time something happens in my area I find out about it the next day.
Do you have a very good print regional newspaper or are you saying that these protests are not worth real-time coverage?
Neither. I just never hear they are going to happen, only that they have happened. The earliest I have heard of any of the recent protest actions was while I was at work and reading that it was already under way.
Not enough advertising ahead of time. i saw a farmers protest in my local town. The day after it happened. On some obscure unrelated subreddit. So like theres coverage, just not ahead of time.
look here for upcoming events:
Also, here’s the fiftyfiftyone site where you can find information about a protest near you.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday (…)
Thousands? Were there just 100 protestors at 100 events? That that would be already 10,000…WTF…
It’s funny that you get salty when the Times uses ‘thousands’ then put in a port that also uses ‘thousands.’
They did that with the last one too. They tryna quiet us
Protests tend to be underreported if peaceful, and over-reported if any violence or vandalism.
There’s a protest scheduled for today in Fresno. I’d be there right now if I had gas money or a ride. Only learned about it on Thursday; didn’t have time to plan anything. 😮💨
Those reading, check in with your friends and family, not iust so they know about it, but to help each other with transportation!
Hell yeah! It’s huge.
Best check local news sources:
https://www.koin.com/local/portlandvancouverprotests04192025/
There is a 50501 community on piefed, as well as a 50501 instance.
!General@50501.chat for an instance-agnostic link to the main community
That helps me a lot. Thank you very much.
Theres a website for 50501 and the Hands off Movement, you basically have to check their websites regularly. Check for local movements too. Facebook has groups for locals.
They also have a lemmy server and community, !general@50501.chat and !mirror@50501.chat (mirror of their reddit posts).
50501.chat/communities has a list of state specific comms.
We still need to find a way to reach the boomers. TV radio and word of mouth seems to work the best for that age group. Or if your young plan to bring your boomers with you and share info directly! Some people need protest buddies, and information
Al Jazeera English covered, even took an interview with Hunter Dunn (national press coordinator).
Also: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/ Seems like a direct source. You can search for events near you and who is organizing them.
This is a good post on where it’s all happening: https://lemmy.ml/post/28824034
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In four parts without commercial interruptions
Not until it becomes violent, at which point it’ll be demonized by Media.
it’ll be
demonizedmonetized by Media.Agreed.
this is one of the instances where they would gladly give up the profits to undermine the movement.
if it ever becomes an big threat to them, that is.
This trend of non-coverage will probably continue if we don’t think of something different. I for one rarely go to my downtown area so it could be easy for regular people at least to miss what’s happened.
It’s a little more on the dangerous side but I had an idea of a “stop in” rather than a “sit in”. Basically we pick a day and time and no matter where you are, you just come to a stop for one minute, not speaking or making noise, just being still. It’s something people can do anywhere and only takes a minute of your time, but if enough people do it then it would look kind of crazy, like something from a sci-fi movie. There’s like no way this would go uncovered or at least unGoogled.
Economic black outs. They can’t ignore money.
Why would there be news about glorified meetups?
I was listening to the radio and they mentioned it so I don’t think it’s radio silence, but it also wasn’t covered in depth either.
/50501 here and on reddit.
Why would the news, controlled and operated by oligarchs, give people protesting oligarchs any coverage?
After the big one I think around early or mid-March, I remember seeing it on the front page of CNN the next morning. It was buried in a lower part later I’m the day, but it was at least front and center the morning after the protests.
Even Fox has covered them a lot. I’ve seen this all spring. They aren’t completely ignoring this.
Do you think reddit is immune to the oligarchs? I don’t think so at all.
Do you think reddit is immune to the oligarchs? I don’t think so at all.
Well no, but the question was why is there no mainstream media coverage.
I’ve posted a couple things here on lemmy. Let’s be honest though, the reach of reddit is orders of magnitude higher than here
Just another question, where would you ideally like to see protest news posted on lemmy? Yes there’s the 50501 community, I also post on DSA community. Where else?
Thanks for doing that!
Maybe also !world@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social
!general@50501.chat and !mirror@50501.chat for anyone interested.
