Online tools that fed “no kings” and Trump resistance

Wilson, who attended the political protests in the past, has never joined his organization, joined the group’s dispute channel to help planning.

“I was not even in the fiercest of my dreams that my first protest, which I organized with another group of Pennsylvania would attend 200 people,” Wilson told Wire. “Then the next day, I think we have 300 or 400, so I am optimistic now. The trick will be to keep this energy continuous.”

Like Wilson, many of the 311,000 subscribers in Subreddit and 17,000 members of the group’s dispute have no experience in organizing protests. However, they felt that they had to do so.

“Democracy must be defended, and it is due to us as members of society to stand and do this, because no one else will do so for us,” Wilson says.

The 50501 group also uses a wide range of online platforms to coordinate its efforts, including cryptocurrency applications such as Signal and Matrix, which are used by smaller sub -groups for sensitive conversations. Platforms like Mobilization Allowing the participants to share information about the upcoming protests, while groups at the state level come with ideas for marks and chants on the joint Google documents.

“The type of everyone to use different strategies to communicate, so everything is everywhere,” says TJ Demetriou, the Public Affairs Officer of a 50501 sub -group. “If you are involved in different groups, it may be confusing.”

Discord is the primary platform for planning and setting volunteering functions within local groups, but it also works as a place for society to vent. After the group’s protests on March 4, many members gathered on the group’s Discord servant to see the Trump address to a joint session of Congress.

The “Public Chat” channel was full of anger, not what Trump says, but in the response of the Democrats in the room, which decided the best way to face Trump To wear pink blouses and Hold small marks No one can see.

One of the members wrote incredibly: “I do not bother you, they carry signs instead of screaming,” one of the members wrote incredibly. “A handful of immortal fasteners”, another added, after there is no other democratic to defend the representative of the Green of Texas, which was It was removed from the room to Trump.

“Well, I am happy because you are all protesting because the holy shit, which was a weak width of Democrats with their prostitute = ass (such), pink shirts and blue relationships.”

Although the group has achieved many successes, some internal fighting unfortunately became a distraction.

In April, the person who published the original 50501 publication, known online as advanced fungus, closed the entire subreddit, claiming that some national groups were seeking to control their 50501 group. According to a joint publication since then on Reddit, the fungi believed that someone sought to submit brand requests for the name 50501. A member of the leadership group 50501 later in the Reddit publication claimed that there was an attempt for the brand name and the creation of the 501C4 entity, but this was done through a “separate and independent group of three people who are not fully linked to a wider 50501 group.