/50501 here and on reddit.
Why would the news, controlled and operated by oligarchs, give people protesting oligarchs any coverage?
Do you think reddit is immune to the oligarchs? I don’t think so at all.
Edit: What I’m saying is: post here rather than on reddit. There are no current updates in the Lemmy community. And I’m assuming that the discussion is taking place on reddit because everyone is somehow still there. Why is that? Why is everyone still there when it’s clear as day that reddit is so rotten that Aaron Swartz would roll over in his grave if he had to witness that.
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
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.
To be fair, I don’t consume mainstream media whatsoever anymore. After reading Manufacturing Consent, I see no point. I get all my news from socials or alt news sources like Democracy Now!, counter punch, it’s going down, and Mother Jones, etc …
!general@50501.chat and !mirror@50501.chat for anyone interested.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday (…)
Thousands? Were there just 100 protestors at 100 events? That would be already 10,000…WTF…
Edit: If this is true (thousands in Portland alone) - and why wouldn’t it be - it’s a massive understatement by the New York Times…and this is prolly one of the few more or less independent/somewhat objective outlets left. C’mon…
Protests tend to be underreported if peaceful, and over-reported if any violence or vandalism.
They did that with the last one too. They tryna quiet us
It’s funny that you get salty when the Times uses ‘thousands’ then put in a port that also uses ‘thousands.’
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
“Thousands join anti-Trump protests across US” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjn0410e3zo
you can check this account on bsky, they repost lots of people who participate https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social
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.
On Mastodon! Follow @w7voa@journa.host and @sccdp@sfba.social
While we’re at it, also follow @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social for summaries of legal procedures.
Also, here’s the fiftyfiftyone site where you can find information about a protest near you.
Al Jazeera English covered, even took an interview with Hunter Dunn (national press coordinator).
Best check local news sources:
https://www.koin.com/local/portlandvancouverprotests04192025/
National story up now:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-trump-rallies-hands-off-administration-washington-new-york-boston/
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
