Protest at the Denver Capitol Feb 5 #50501
Protest at the Denver Capitol Feb 5 #50501
Felt good to do something. This one was peaceful, but as has been observed many times before, peaceful protests don't often have the desired effect.
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Wish I would have heard about it sooner. I didn't see anything until after it happened :/
People on Reddit (and Lemmy too, after it started on reddit) were trash talking the protest plans yesterday, saying they were poorly organized and "people should sit this one out." My wife went anyway (I had work stuff I needed to do). Based on what we saw today... I wonder if that wasn't some deliberate misinformation shit that got started on Reddit and went a little viral.
From what we saw (from 5-ish to 8pm), there were cops & protesters directing traffic, and it seemed there were a decent amount of people in the march we did on the streets surrounding the capitol -- part of it we went down Broadway. I saw some numbers on Mastodon that earlier in the day it got to 4,000 people. Don't know the actual tally though.
Whether deliberate or not I saw several posts here and on Reddit "organizing" protests for yesterday which occurred at different times than the 50501 events. The only real mitigating factor for that was for several of them, they were for protests in cities which weren't the state capitol.
I did see tons of posts which were more classic discouragement, in line with the "just sit it out" ones you mention. Other notable message types were "this is a trap" or "you shouldn't trust this, don't go" or "they're trying to get you to be violent so they can declare martial law."
There's another one on Saturday apparently. We're gonna make the drive up from Pueblo.