Sign from the DC #protest against #maga #fascism
" We stand with #ukraine #canada #panama #greenland "
#resist #fucknazis #fucktrump #fuckmusk

“No #democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 % of the population to #protest over a sustained period At that scale, most soldiers have no desire to suppress protesters. Why? Because the crowd includes family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. With a population of 327 million, the U.S. would need to mobilize about 11.5 million people to assert popular, democratic power on the government.”

3.5%

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/

HT https://bsky.app/profile/im-mark-aylward.bsky.social/post/3lkcmoxgozc2n

There are SO MANY protests taking place in Washington DC these days, but I haven't heard of any that are specifically in opposition to the United States interfering with the sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, and/or Panama. I feel compelled to publicly express strong opposition to the idea of our government invading, annexing, or threatening countries that have done nothing to harm us. Does anyone in Washington DC know of any suitable protests?

My latest: Last year, I covered the chaos as a peaceful protest for #Palestine at the University of Texas at #Austin was attacked by state troopers and local police. Unknown to me, a respected UT professor I'd interviewed for other stories was also there, and was about to have an encounter with cops that would cost him his career.

Today, Austin Free Press is releasing video from that incident showing the trooper deliberately shoving him multiple times. https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/

Out today at Austin Free Press: Respected UT professor Richard Heyman was arrested and lost his job after an altercation with police at a protest for #Palestine last year. Newly released video shows the Texas state trooper deliberately shoving Heyman multiple times. https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/

Hey #TeslaTakedown, I created a short zine on tactics you can use at protests if you're getting harassed by unwanted people with cameras (i.e. Wannbe Infowars dudes, aka media trolls)...

I think y'all might be needing this soon.
https://kitoconnell.com/2020/06/22/beyond-the-concrete-milkshake-media-trolls-zine/

it's #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship and did you know that you can help keep people safer—people like freedom fighters, political dissidents, journalists, and regular people simply seeking medical information or services, like abortions, HRT, sex ed, therapy, or psychiatric medications—by becoming a @torproject Snowflake?

you can even run it in your browser or on your phone via @guardianproject's Orbot app

here's an explainer by @eff:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship

Who is Mahmoud Khalil? The detained Columbia graduate praised as steady negotiator https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/who-is-mahmoud-khalil-arrest-palestinian-activist-columbia #Palestinianterritories #UScampusprotests #MahmoudKhalil #USimmigration #DonaldTrump #NewYork #Protest #USnews #Israel

Fellow Londoners - want to help make Elon's life miserable?

Come join us for our weekly #TeslaTakedown protest outside their west #London showroom!

Every Saturday until these fascists get the fucking message!

WHEN: Tomorrow 15 March 2025, 11am

WHERE: Tesla, Park Royal. 152 Dukes Road, London, W3 0SL

https://actionnetwork.org/events/tesla-takedown-london-part-iii

The UK Crime and Policing Bill will create a vast facial recognition database of over 55 million driving licences and ban face coverings at protest

This would be the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for policing.

With other rights groups, we're telling politicians to stop the expansion of police surveillance powers

Read the joint briefing

#SafetyNotSurveillance

Continuing the facade that the UK doesn’t have an identity without the royals is just nonsense.

Without them, the UK’s money would be well better invested, especially when the Duchy properties are seized, and a proper elected head of state can be achieved.

Make Rexit (Royal Exit) happen!

As Liberty have pointed out, yesterday Labour revived a Tory policy as part of the new Crime & Policing Bill; there is a revival of the attempt to ban face-coverings at protests, which, would seem to me, to be a classic case of a technological shift driving policy.

In the past, the police would have to identify a 'person of interest' catch them & ask them to remove their mask, now with facial recognition technology they need to forbid mask wearing.

#protest #politics

https://action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/petition/1

Protest?
#Protest.
Yes. But understand the risk.
Hope for change. Prepare for consequences.
Pursue long-term vision rather than short-term demands.
Take the chance. Great risk, carefully balanced, can bring great reward.
Impatient negotiations are obvious.