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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
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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.
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Duration of the Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV): 72 Hours (Saturday, April 26th–Monday, April 28th)
- 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.
- Weighted Voting: Votes from state organizers and liaisons were prioritized by applying a weight to their initial tallies. The final RCV results reflect both the broader community input and the elevated importance of organizer and liaison votes.
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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
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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.
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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.
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🧮 First-Choice Totals (Public + Organizer Weighted ×10)
Option Public 1st Organizer Weighted (×10) Total 1st June 6 – D-Day Anniversary 1,129 530 1,659 June 14 – Flag Day & Trump’s Birthday 922 910 1,832 June 1 – Beginning of Pride 437 310 747 June 19 – Juneteenth 106 170 276 June 23 – Title IX Anniversary 55 10 65 June 27 – Stonewall Anniversary 52 90 142 🔄 RCV Elimination Rounds
Round 1 – Eliminate June 23 (65 votes)
Reallocated To Estimated Votes Juneteenth +20 Stonewall +20 Exhausted/Other +25 Totals after Round 1
Option New Total D-Day 1,659 Flag Day 1,832 Pride 747 Juneteenth 296 Stonewall 162 Round 2 – Eliminate Stonewall (162 votes)
Reallocated To Estimated Votes Pride +90 Juneteenth +50 Flag Day +10 D-Day +2 Exhausted/Other +10 Totals After Round 2
Option New Total D-Day 1,661 Flag Day 1,842 Pride 837 Juneteenth 346 Round 3 – Eliminate Juneteenth (346 votes)
Reallocated To Estimated Votes Pride +190 Flag Day +90 D-Day +36 Exhausted/Other +30 Totals After Round 3
Option New Total D-Day 1,697 Flag Day 1,932 Pride 1,027 Round 4 – Eliminate Pride (1,027 votes)
Reallocated To Estimated Votes Flag Day +675 D-Day +352 🏁 Final Totals
Option Final Total D-Day 2,049 Flag Day 2,607 🏆 Winner: June 14 – Flag Day & Trump’s Birthday
Final Vote Count: 2,607
Majority Needed: 2,361 ✅ Majority Achieved
I’m making a comment based on feedback from 50501 PDX: they DO NOT want to do a march on the 19th because most of us are white and we don’t want to take that day away from Black people.
I feel like we should be uplifting Black, Bipoc peoples orgs and volunteering to help them not take the day and make it ours. We should already be doing this in general but I agree with your group.
Perhaps it’d be a great day for a “Date of Action” to promote mutual aid?
June 14
Title: Trump’s Bigly Bad Birthday Bash
Theme: The Emperor Has No Clothes
A nationwide day of satirical street theater. Organizers everywhere will stage public birthday parties for Trump that expose his corruption, incompetence, and vanity with humor, creativity, and ridicule, but without touching anything military. We’ll dress up, create absurd floats and props, and show the country that Trump isn’t a strongman; he’s a joke.
Trump wants to be celebrated as a powerful emperor. We’ll “celebrate” him but as a naked, crumbling fraud whose empire is a sham.
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.”
Here’s a link with more details: https://drive.proton.me/urls/AG4G43N7HR#WHxubIFXZCqr
Personally I will be helping on D-Day with Veterans that is already in the works. I am still feeling out what everyone in signal Florida chat is wanting.
Trump’s birthday has my vote. He’s gonna throw a fit if he doesn’t get the larger crowd.
Did you see my suggestion of “Trump’s Bigly Bad Birthday Bash” with a theme of the “Emperor Has No Clothes”?
I think June 14th would be the most impactful. And leaves us in a good position to act early in July if we decide to.
Personally, I am pro 6/14 being our main day of protest, but I also want to uplift 6/6 (more as a day of action/support/community)
I think have demonstrations on 6/6 would be extremely powerful. It’s a day of anti-fascist resistance, and we could support the veteran’s groups that want to do it then. And then, on 6/14, having all of our groups stand up together on Flag Day would be a cherry on top
I vote June 14 for these reasons:
From the perspective of our smaller-city group: Weekend protests are much more doable for us in places like Eugene, Oregon. Most of our small team works weekdays and has to take time off to do any weekday events. Weekday national dates present a major strain on our already resource-strained team.
We get WAY more turnout for weekend events.
Also, picking national holidays/days of remembrance often lead to us having to compete with other local organizations to hold our events, rather than being able to team up with those other orgs on our respective events.
May Day, for example, has put us in planning conflict with a labor-union event that had already been planned on the ONE good spot to hold a protest in town. Similarly, Juneteenth would put us in a situation where we are in conflict with POC-supportive organizations for the narrative and crowd of that day, and would require us to support/combine with their events rather than hosting our own. (We want to support them too, but it complicates things when that is the day that we have to advertise our own event).
My local group (in Vancouver, WA), was asked about 1-2 months in advance to join another group’s May Day event where we’ve had 2 of our other events. It’s okay to join other groups. It doesn’t have to be your own event.
In this case, we were not able to join up with them. The labor union was only expecting a crowd of a couple hundred people and they expressed that they didn’t have the staffing to manage a larger protest. They asked us to move our event. If we had moved forward and just advertised our event at that same date/time/place, it would have been a slight to them.
It’s easier done in bigger cities, where activist groups have more people and better infrastructure. In smaller cities, you have skeleton crews with small to nonexistent safety teams, and fewer suitable places to throw events. There is such a thing as “stepping on others’ toes” here.
I thought the veteran’s group was doing 6/6
Yep! We would be joining 50501 Veterans if 6/6 is chosen. They brought it to our attention.
Hawai’i perspective - Large LGBTQ presence, large military presence, not patriotic. I vote supporting vets on DDay since that info is already going out, supporting orgs on Juneteenth since its a federal holiday, and doing our own LGBTQ focused event on either June 1st or June 27th. I think we should plan something like a blackout for Trump’s bday. No one buys anything, no one goes anywhere, no one uses social media. Or we do the thing where we flood X with posts. Something visible we can do that isn’t a protest.
I agree 💯 particularly like the idea of a blackout on his birthday.
I think Flag Day is perfect. Ignore the other thing correlated to the date and take the flag back.
June 14 date for a National Event. [I’m posting this on behalf of someone else] Just throwing out thought for name…Reign in his parade. Theme …no fraud, waste & abuse on our backs.
6/14 [I’m posting this on behalf of someone else] I was thinking about something like, since Trump appears to want to celebrate war and power on that day, maybe we celebrate peace and justice.
Definitely June 14th and wish there were more Sat options for national dates
One concern I have with Saturdays is there aren’t a lot of “points of interventions” on Saturdays. Law makers out in decision making places on Saturdays. Trump loyalists aren’t likely at work on Saturdays. So, Saturdays become more symbolic days of action rather than strategic days of actions outside places where people we want to influence are located. I would like to see 50501 move away from symbolic demonstrations and towards more strategic protests.
I’ve seen some groups maintain a chat dedicated to “pop up protests” for these “points of intervention”. They usually only give a week or two worth of notice for these events. They don’t attract the same number of people, but they are still able to get their message across to stakeholders and the press.
For national days of action that we communicate out far in advance, I lean towards dates that let the most people participate.
If you would like a Saturday make a comment for a specific Saturday date with a proposed them and see if people up or downvote it to move on to the voting round. :)
6/6!
6th of June is a date already discussed here in Colorado and very highly liked also 6th of june is very important to me cause my grandfather fought in ww2 also I studied each and every battle from d-day I do hope the 6th gets picked