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Proposal for June Event Dates

Collected Date:
Date: April 17, 2025

This proposal outlines suggested dates for the next events in June. The timing considers organizers’ needs, significant historical context, and potential permit restrictions in various locations. The timeline is designed to visualize the proximity of these events and prepare ahead for mobilization.

Endorsement Process

  • Duration of the Endorsement Vote: 192 Hours (Thursday, April 17th–Friday, April 25th)

    • Voting Mechanism: Community members can vote up or down on the proposed event dates. A post must gain significant support within this period to move forward to the next step.

  • Duration of the Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV): 48 Hours (Saturday, April 26th–Sunday, April 27th)

    • Voting Mechanism: Once a proposal passes the endorsement phase, it moves to a ranked-choice voting round. During this stage, voters will rank the proposed dates in order of preference. The proposal with the highest support after this phase will be selected for the event.

  • Final Approval: After the RCV concludes, the final decision will be made on which event date to proceed with, based on the collective community preference.

Proposed Dates & Focus of Upcoming Events

June 1 – Sunday – Beginning of Pride Month

  • Focus: LGBTQ+ Liberation and Anti-Fascism
    • Description: Launch Pride Month with a reaffirmation that Pride is rooted in protest. Focus on the defense of queer rights, trans youth, and community safety amidst rising legislative attacks.

June 6 – Friday – D-Day Anniversary

  • Focus: 50501 Veterans’ Nationwide Call: “Not On Our Watch”
    • Description: Veterans from the movement have proposed this day as a nationwide mobilization to stand against authoritarianism and fascism. Honor the sacrifices made in World War II by continuing the fight for democracy and justice today.

June 14 – Saturday – Flag Day & Trump’s Birthday

  • Focus: Reclaim Patriotism

    • Description: Counter Trump’s symbolic use of military spectacle and American iconography. Reclaim the flag for the people. Highlight who the country truly belongs to — not billionaires and tyrants.

  • Themes and Visual Ideas:

    • The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Bodysuit costumes, gold crowns, oversized fake jewels.
    • Fake Awards Ceremony: Giant trophies labeled “Biggest Liar” or “Best Coup Attempt.”
    • Birthday Party Gone Wrong: Sloppy cakes, melting candles, sad “Happy Birthday, Loser” banners.
    • Golden Toilet Thrones: Celebrate his real legacy!
    • Made America Gag Again: Red caps, but they say GAG instead of MAGA.
    • Broken Promises Balloons: Helium balloons with slogans like “Mexico Paid for It!” “It’ll Be Over By Easter!” “Total Exoneration!” that deflate as the event goes on.
    • Fake Billionaires’ Club: Parade of people in tuxedos and tiaras, throwing fake money.
    • Carry giant fake birthday gifts labeled “Another Indictment,” “More Lawsuits,” “Bankruptcy.”

June 19 – Thursday – Juneteenth

  • Focus: Black Liberation and Economic Justice
    • Description: Mark Juneteenth by honoring the end of slavery and the ongoing fight for Black freedom. Center the struggle for true liberation, justice, and dignity. Lift up demands for reparations, land rights, economic justice, and the full realization of freedom for all Black Americans. Recognize Juneteenth not just as a historical event, but as a living movement toward collective liberation.

June 23 – Monday – Title IX Anniversary (1973)

  • Focus: Gender Justice & the SAVE Act
    • Description: Use this day to reinforce the fight for women’s rights, gender equity in education, and defense against regressive legislation like the SAVE Act. Highlight the broader threats to bodily autonomy and gender justice.

June 27 – Friday – Stonewall Uprising Anniversary

  • Focus: Queer Liberation & Radical History
    • Description: Honor the radical origins of Pride and the Stonewall Riots. Reinforce intersectional demands for racial, gender, and economic justice. “Stonewall Was a Riot” becomes more than a slogan — it’s a call to action.

Additional Information

  • Proposal Creation: Proposals can be initiated by any member within the movement, with dates reviewed and shared for community feedback.
  • Liaison Involvement: Liaisons assist in spreading information, encouraging participation, and ensuring diverse input is considered.
  • Poll Distribution: Organizing teams handle distributing polls to maximize engagement. The poll allows voting on event dates, with ranked-choice voting finalizing the most supported selection.
  • Harry
    54·
    6 days ago

    I want to write a lengthy post on a topic because I haven’t seen anyone raise this point on a massive scale.

    WEEKDAYS ARE CLASSIST and we should not do them for national days. If States want to host events on weekdays, let them.

    I know that historical dates are sexy and symbolic, but the fact of the matter is that the working and lower middle class don’t often have the luxury of attending weekday protests. I believe the 50501 movement has a massive image problem of appearing too much as “2016 era Resistance Liberals” and while I’ve spoken to many state organizers I know this is not the case, weekday protests do not help this image problem. In particular doing a Mayday protest on a weekday is something that in my opinion plays very well to educated upper middle class people, but to working class people they think “it will cost me 140 dollars in lost wages to attend this protest”.

    The above image problem is not something that hosting weekday protests will fix immediately. It won’t instantly cause the working class and lower middle class to flock to us in droves. But not addressing this will only worsen this problem and set this perception in stone if it is not addressed.

    • notyourdaddy2832@50501.chatEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Quite the opposite, actually. Weekend protests are what are classist. In my 20’s before I had my union job I worked EVERY weekend in the service industry. The only people who I know that work M-F 9-5 work at banks, in finance, or in upper management. I have a career now and I still work weekends because its blue collar work. Our May Day protest will actually be held during the day near the college campus, because the college students cant attend or interact with us otherwise. They work weekends because they have school during the week so they have requested this of us.

    • comradeflamingoEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      I think this is right, but would also say that many working people work on weekends. When I was a restaurant worker most of my days off were Mondays and Tuesdays. So I think weekends are a good proposal generally, but I don’t know that framing weekends entirely around class is fair. People will see 50501 as aligned with the working class when it represents policies and efforts aligned with the working class, not just what day of the week a protest is held on.

    • AcornbadenEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      There is a difference between a protest and a demonstration. Protest = A crowd gathering in public to express disagreement with, or disapproval or anger or frustration toward, a specific individual or organization that is at or near the crowd’s gathering point (e.g., a politician giving a speech, a corporate headquarters, a bank branch, a construction site, a city hall), or in negative reaction to a recent or current event (e.g., the killing of George Floyd, the reversal of Roe v. Wade).

      Demonstration = A crowd gathering to demonstrate their support for a set of political demands or claims to an external audience, typically with things like signs and banners and flags displayed to passers-by in a public space. This is probably the most common type of action.

      Demonstrations are mostly symbolic. “Contemporary movements seem to rely more on street demonstrations than other methods of nonviolent action, such as mass noncooperation, like work stoppages, walkouts, rolling strikes, boycotts, or general strikes. Symbolic displays of resistance do not necessarily weaken the opponent’s sources of power.” ~ Erica Chenoweth

      May Day has been a day for working class people since the 1880’s. Workers have often taken this day off to demand better for the working class. My local 50501 group was invited to join a May Day action from a working class immigrant!

      On the weekend, who exactly are we protesting and where or are you suggesting recruitment rallies?