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Survey Results!
Thank you to those who filled out the Mass 50501 Survey, and congrats to the raffle winners! Your enthusiasm and feedback are exactly what we need to keep up the fight against authoritarianism. We have ways to put your enthusiasm to work, and we’ve already started turning your feedback into actions.
Secession and Other Forms of Appeasement
The current administration seeks nothing more than for us to give up and abandon our fellow Americans. To fight back effectively, we must stand together with people of good will in every corner of this tattered but still intact republic.
Spreading the Movement
We won’t be able to convert everyone in our community to habitual boots-in-the-street protesters, and we shouldn’t try. Luckily, that’s not the barometer of success; it’s a success every time we leave someone a little more disposed to support our cause at the end of a conversation. In this article, we share more tips for success.
AL50501 chooses accountability over “Southern hospitality”
Alabama 50501 knew our mission was to uplift the students whose graduations would be marred by the non-consensual insertion of Trump's ego. We would be there to champion their courage, shield them from MAGA and the university, and amplify their voices.
Elections, Inc: Squid Game is Back with a Warning About Corporatocracy
What do Squid Game, Korean politics, and Donald Trump have in common? Quite a bit, according to the new season of the hit show.
What does the Trump v. Casa decision actually do?
What this decision is: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has made it more difficult to stop the Trump administration from committing illegal acts.
What this decision is not: SCOTUS has not eliminated birthright citizenship.
What you can do: Read our guide to this disastrous decision for full details and three ways you can help in this fight.
The Revolution Needs Rest Too: Self-Care for the Front Lines
In order to sustain this work, we must take care of ourselves. Not as a luxury, but as a revolutionary necessity.
Hammer Fall
The power of the people is greater than any branch of government but it is a blunt and temperamental instrument. It cannot be fully mustered or deployed in a day. Movements are like a force of nature or the weather; a disturbance in the political atmosphere that we must be wise enough to navigate.
Spreading the Message
Exit your political bubble and go out into your neighborhood, go to your family, go to your friends, and do the scary thing you’ve always been told is rude in polite company: Talk about politics. We’ll explain how this helps us succeed, and we’ll give you some tips for opening up the conversation.
Boston Pride x No Kings Recap
On Saturday, June 14, over 2100 No Kings protests took place throughout the country, with dozens in Massachusetts alone. In Boston, we had a unique opportunity to combine Boston Pride with No Kings. Over 1 million people came together to embrace peaceful unity in the face of tyranny, to uplift our LGBTQIA+ community above hateful rhetoric, and to speak in a single voice proclaiming that Americans reject the dictatorial aspirations of a would-be king.
Trump Budget Bill Will Turbocharge Authoritarian Deportation Regime
This article is time-sensitive. The Senate is trying to vote on the Trump budget bill next week! Action items can be found at the end of the article.
Here To Stay
I breathe deep and tap into years of psychological training from the world’s best mental health professionals, living my best life in a warzone where anything with a Pride flag on it is a target for hateful bigots. I tell myself that we will always be out there, they’ll tear us up, mock my trans siblings when they jump to their deaths, and still it will not be enough to make me disappear. We will grow bolder and find ways to resist their totalitarian systems. This is what it means to me when I say we are here to stay.
Why Celebrating Juneteenth is More Important Than Ever
While some celebrate Independence Day on July 4th, for many in the black community, Juneteenth is our Independence Day—the day that our ancestors’ emancipation was finally proclaimed across the country, and the end of almost a century of slavery. Read about the legacy of Juneteenth and why it’s becoming more and more important every year to celebrate this momentous day in history.
The View from Tennessee
Lawmakers dressed in red play a wicked game. We at UVOTN will not let them win. If we truly have the right to bear arms, then we’ll holster our bullhorns at our hips.
Why should I join the 6/9 protest?
Know that we're in the same boat. We're struggling, too, and we struggled ourselves in deciding whether we should take the drastic step of skipping out on other obligations ourselves, much less ask it of you. Here's why we ultimately decided that things have gotten so dire that we're risking more than we ever have to attend this rally, and why we ask you to consider the same.
Who Owns The Future?
I fear the task has fallen to our generation to build something new, and if so, it will be a defining struggle. It will be hard, but all we need to do is tell the truth. In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
No ICE in my Backyard
I talked to my local police department about its non-cooperation policy with ICE, and you should too. Here’s how.
Organizing in a Red State
In Oklahoma, we know that no matter how hard we fight, most battles will be lost. Terrible legislation that targets and suppresses us will pass, and our voices will be ignored. … We do get wins, but they are rare and bittersweet. It has taken three years to make it illegal for school employees to beat developmentally disabled students, but that’s the reality in deep red states. We must persist in the face of constant losses, and we celebrate wins that were unreasonably difficult to achieve.
Who Controls The Past?
To control the collective memory of a people through history erases everything a people once was and replaces it with an eternal present. A simple adjustment to the “facts” of the day can justify any action, no matter how obviously stupid and cruel. Power becomes unmoored from the systems that balance against baser human instincts and then the world is one where only the corrupt can flourish.
The Case for Nonviolence
The power of nonviolent protest extends from your living room to the streets of every state. Groups like 50501, Indivisible, Veterans Against Trump, Common Cause, and others are growing in number each day and are active in every state. There are podcasts and publications, both liberal and conservative, sounding the alarm against the winds of fascism which are descending on us like a sandstorm in the desert. Poets are writing, Pedro is imploring and The Boss has spoken. Together we need to wield the most powerful weapon we have at our disposal: our voice.