September 2, 2025 • 16 mins
How do we protest safely today? We talk about some recent protests, and some tips for safe protesting.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff. I never told you your protection if
I hurt radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So it's not a great time for the US. I
might have been crying this morning over some videos of
people outside of the US who actually are compassionately asking
how we're doing and understanding that we are not doing well.
And as more and more fascist things, fascist like things
(00:40):
and things are occurring here, we're trying to combat the
feeling of helplessness and fear by focusing on people and
organizations and protesters and the right to protest. That we're
trying to find things to uplift or to at least
encourage our fellow peoples in this time. And yeah, protesters
(01:02):
have been out and about all around the US even
today constantly, and with Labor Day coming, I know there's
some thoughts and processing of like possibly more organizations coming
out and about. So we thought for this activist around
the world that we would talk about some protesting organizations
and trusted organizations so we can gather together and get unified.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
As we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Previous leaders and protesters and people in the sphere talking
about how being unified is one of the key points
and combating this and with activists around the world. Something
that we love to do is highlight those good organizations
that we see as trustworthy and that have done proving
good work. However, let me admit to you now this
(01:49):
episode is a little odd, a little different because I've
hit some roadblocks, I've hit some questions in my own
mind and my own thinking. As we know that the
government to be paranoid or over the top. You know,
we're buying into some conspiracy theories, but we know that
the government does track a lot of our data. That's
what they have done. They have set this up from
(02:10):
jump in order to be able to do so with
very little uh, slowing down or any kind of repercussions.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They are free to do so.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So there's a lot of conversations and even talking about
the organizations recently from other actives around the world, how
they're trying to protect their members and their staff, and
in order to do so, we know that things like
ICE does not care about any actual legal threshold, They
do not care about due process, and they don't even
actually care who you are.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And they have.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Given themselves permissioned by our current administration as well, to
do whatever they want. So there's a lot of up
things happening in which I have gone back and forth about,
like I want to talk about these organizations. I want
to find these organizations. But we even though we might
not be the best podcast, and we've kind of like
lost a lot of people through you know, host changes,
(03:03):
through other amazing podcasts coming out and all these other things,
so so many things. We might not be the most popular,
but we are still available in public spheres, and so
speaking out loud, we also want to take responsibility in
making sure people are safe as well. So I've hit
this moment of like I want to talk about these organizations.
I would love for you our listeners who are involved
(03:26):
in things in that area, because obviously we are in
State of Georgia, in Atlanta, and we have a very
different viewpoint from people who are in New York, in
la in DC. Talked to Bridget today and found out
how she was doing stuff like that. So if you
have experiences like you can tell us about how you
have joined some protests recently and how well they went
for you, or how scary they we went for you,
(03:48):
or things that you have learned, we would love for
you to share.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We need that right now.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We need that information because one of the things that
we can do as podcasters, and I feel like we
have a responsibility to do, is to be able to
tell the truth and highlight the things that are happening
around the country, especially when things are being suppressed pretty heavily.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So if you you know, our new email.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Address is hello at stuff Mom never told you dot com?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Did I get that right, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yep, that's your thing, so I can't remember always, but
please send us an email. You can go onto our
social media. We're not on that as active anymore because
again we are in bad places in our mental health sometimes,
so you know, but if you can send us your
stories of what things that you think you can share,
things that you're willing to share, please do because we
(04:39):
need those stories. This is something like I'm doing as
a call out. So this is why this episode is
a little different. And honestly, we're also in crush month.
This is what I'm gonna call it, because this is
the time of year right before the holidays where a
lot of activity happens. Birthdays, dragon con holidays, vacation times,
all those things happen around this time. So we are
(05:00):
trying to get everything straight. So we are recording this
and what timestamp is August twenty sixth of twenty twenty five,
so a little bit ahead, hey, because you know, for me,
I'm the procrastinator likes the way last minute.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But we're a little bit ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So even with that, there are obviously things that are
changing and being ever so scary, with things happening all
around the world, all around the country, as we write,
as we record, as we release this episode, there are
more and more events happening, so bear with us, and
(05:35):
especially specific episodes like these. And as a quick side,
we are trying our best to navigate the internet to
weed out misinformation and disinformation and bad players who are
only adding to the confusion. So if we discover new
things about people or organizations that may.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Be something that's important.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Maybe that comes out with like, oh this was wrong,
they did this, they're anti this, we'll come out to
speak about it. And if you know something that you're
like a you probably don't want to talk about them,
let us know because we can't always get all that
information just from two people's perspective, so we always need
your assistance with that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But we are going to talk about some of the.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Past, organizations that have worked and have done some planning,
and that includes just the recent one, the No Kings
protests or an organization that have helped put together this
protest that happened in June of twenty twenty five. The
numbers are not completely clear, but the estimate attendees range
from two to four point eight million, so a pretty
(06:38):
big range across the country. There are some inaccuracies. The
inaccuracies seem to be due to the fact that small
towns were involved in this, and I love those posts.
One think about favorite things to see is the small
towns that I did not think would be a part
of protests like this. We're out and about, but it
was hard to count all of them, so there may
(06:59):
be more, who knows, and it's beautiful to see. Just recently,
I don't know if you know. Again, a time stamped it.
The Vice President came through Fayette County Phtree City, which
is one of the widest affluent areas in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Coming to talk about crime rates.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Everybody laughed because that's a golf art community. They literally
have lanes for golf carts.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, it's also where they filmed a lot of Marvel movies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Are they used to, Oh yeah, they used to.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So it's quite funny because they have probably some of
the better accessibilities for non car transportation.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, Also there's a lot to be said anyway, but
they had a protest there. It was lovely to see
protesting him and making sure they know that he knew
that he was not welcome. And there was no crime
to be talked about, like, of course there's small crime everywhere.
What we should be talking about is gun control, because
if we wanted to control any type of crime, that
(07:58):
would be it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But they whatever. But yeah, so no Kings has been
a part of that.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They were able to infiltrate the whole country and many
people came out. I love the amount of people that
went through this we were able to see and participated.
One of the things that made this protest successful was
due to the fact that, again it was in more
areas than any others, so they had around twenty one
hundred and fifty areas, where like the women's protests that
was also one of the largest in our lifetime, only
(08:26):
had six hundred and fifty locations, So it was pretty
impressive that it was as widespread as it was and
with that, this organization has pushed to encourage more people
to get involved with protesting and activism. In their site,
(08:49):
they had a program called a one Million Rising, which
is an effort to train people on a local scale
for resistance and for protests, which I loved. From their site,
they said one Million Rising as a national effort to
train one million people to resist authoritarianism together through a
series of trainings and local gatherings, will build the strategy,
(09:09):
skills and people power it takes to stop Trump and
his enablers from seizing more power. This is how we
get organized, this is how we win. So I love that.
So they had like a four part program on how
to get it done and listing things. They do have
some stuff on their site to show where the areas
that have come through and trained so that we can
see if things are going forward with types of protests.
(09:32):
And with that, they have completed that first batch of
sessions with several locations registered, so hopefully we can see
more of that. Again, this is one of those situations
where I kind of go iffy because if they wanted,
if they were be targeted, which we've seen in fascist
states that that does happen, and this information is important
to note, so's.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Be weary because I know no kings.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We also had that big controversy where they try to
get people to register and everybody's like wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait, that doesn't seem like
a good idea, and I will hold it that that
doesn't seem like a good idea. I think it's interesting
to note that they wanted to know how many people
would attend for like number wise, but for safety reasons.
This seems like a bad idea, just to put that
(10:16):
out there. So in just recently, like this month in LA,
there's been many many protests. People are calling it music
fests on TikTok because TikTok is really.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Going downhill. We're just gonna say that way.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
They had a twenty four hour day of action which
was planned by different groups including CHERLA or the Coalition
of Human Immigration Rights in LA which was founded in
nineteen eighty six, or the SEIU which is the Service
Employees International Union, and several other key players that came
in with different unions and definite immigration sites. They came
together working to mobilize and protests against the kidnapping illegal
(10:54):
arrests that committed by ice. So there's a lot of
cool things happening there. There's still going from what I understand,
I think was just like not being noted. People are
not seeing what's happening. And of course the only times
we see anything happening is if there's any kind of violence,
and well, we know how that got gets to that point,
don't we and moving.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
On and then you know what, I don't know, we've
talked enough about this. I think we've talked about it before.
But the Quaker.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Community, let's just give a shout out to that Quaker
community who've been leaders and examples of protesting and nonviolent
protesting for years, four years since the like like in
the US, since the ending of slavery, they were there
as champions and advocates to the black community in that
time to end slavery, like they have been a part
(11:40):
of this community. In fact, not too long ago they
there was like a group of like three hundred Quakers
who marched from New York City to Washington, d C.
In protests of the immigration policies implemented by the current administration.
Like they marched all the way down in solidarity with
immigrants and how this administration is wreaking havoc and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Doing illegal things.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And with that there are prime examples of consistent support
and advocacy work again throughout history, Like I really want
to talk more about it, but just recently Quaker protesters
were arrested along with others for protesting and supports Palestine
in the UK. They have chapters in groups. I believe
they call them the Friends because you know they used
to be the Friends Society. I believe what they were before,
(12:29):
like as the Quakers, and that they have been consistently
a part of these peaceful protests and willing to be
arrested in the name of justice. I'd love to see
it and also just as to put it out there
because again Labor Day is coming around, and I believe
there's some things happening. There's some active activism happening for
(12:50):
those of you participating. Here's some reminders from Amnesty dot
org and their new campaign which they call Protect the Protest,
which is working to protect protesters and their rights and
being able to peacefully protest and to alert the public
of the violations occurring in suppressing that right. It's occurring
now as in fact, there was an executive water about
(13:11):
arresting people who burn the flag, which has been a
form of protests for years, for decades, for decades, and
we know what's happening moving on. So they write this,
know your rights. You have a right to peacefully assemble,
a right to privacy, and a right to protest. If
you get injured, you have the right to receive medical care.
(13:33):
Police must avoid the use of force. So they say
to do these following things. Go ahead and plan ahead.
Make sure you know where you're going, make sure you
know where you can meet up, know the area, know
the area well. Wear protective clothing. And I think we've
talked about this in so many of the Black Lives.
Matter of wild wif that's important, whether it's eye wear,
(13:53):
whether it's not wearing contacts, whether it's wearing clothes that
are neutral and not marked, wearing masks because COVID is.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Still out there. COVID is still out there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And then talking about packing emergency supplies, get your say
first aid kit. I actually take contact solution and such
because that can help flush out eyes. When we were
doing pepper spray things for my old job, because we
had to get pepper sprayed, they told us to use
baby shampoo that did not work, just so you know,
(14:27):
but you can try it. Don't use milk that has
been highly yelled at. Don't use milk because I actually
can make it a bacterial infection and may be really gross,
So don't do that. But emergency supplies, including emergency numbers,
knowing your rights, all of those things, and honestly, with
what's happening with ice and illegal detentions and kidnappings and
(14:49):
even like people faking being iced to attack women, that's
a whole different conversation. Be prepared to document human rights abuses.
You have the right to film people, especially in this situation.
What we would say is, if you're filming and recording
because you're so excited about being a part of the protest,
do not show people's faces.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Do not show people's faces. So there's a lot to
be said in this moment.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Again, we do ask if you have examples, if you
have stories that you want to share in these protests,
if you have ideas, or if you have actual organizations
that you think should be shared, because I think that's
something that we don't have enough of, then please let
us know. Because honestly, I even asked our friend of
show Bridget who is an activist in DC, Like, what
(15:32):
do you know? Who do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because it's really.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Hard to find credible sources that tell you who is
trustworthy and who is not. I know right now indivisible
dot org, which is a nonprofit that has a lot
of law makers, law lawyers and such as part of
the organizations, are hosting protests right now throughout I just
saw one in Boca Ratan, so I'd love to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But let us know, let us know because we need
that information.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
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(16:19):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome to stuff. I never told you your protection if
I hurt radio.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So it's not a great time for the US. I
might have been crying this morning over some videos of
people outside of the US who actually are compassionately asking
how we're doing and understanding that we are not doing well.
And as more and more fascist things, fascist like things
(00:40):
and things are occurring here, we're trying to combat the
feeling of helplessness and fear by focusing on people and
organizations and protesters and the right to protest. That we're
trying to find things to uplift or to at least
encourage our fellow peoples in this time. And yeah, protesters
(01:02):
have been out and about all around the US even
today constantly, and with Labor Day coming, I know there's
some thoughts and processing of like possibly more organizations coming
out and about. So we thought for this activist around
the world that we would talk about some protesting organizations
and trusted organizations so we can gather together and get unified.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
As we were talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Previous leaders and protesters and people in the sphere talking
about how being unified is one of the key points
and combating this and with activists around the world. Something
that we love to do is highlight those good organizations
that we see as trustworthy and that have done proving
good work. However, let me admit to you now this
(01:49):
episode is a little odd, a little different because I've
hit some roadblocks, I've hit some questions in my own
mind and my own thinking. As we know that the
government to be paranoid or over the top. You know,
we're buying into some conspiracy theories, but we know that
the government does track a lot of our data. That's
what they have done. They have set this up from
(02:10):
jump in order to be able to do so with
very little uh, slowing down or any kind of repercussions.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
They are free to do so.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
So there's a lot of conversations and even talking about
the organizations recently from other actives around the world, how
they're trying to protect their members and their staff, and
in order to do so, we know that things like
ICE does not care about any actual legal threshold, They
do not care about due process, and they don't even
actually care who you are.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And they have.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Given themselves permissioned by our current administration as well, to
do whatever they want. So there's a lot of up
things happening in which I have gone back and forth about,
like I want to talk about these organizations. I want
to find these organizations. But we even though we might
not be the best podcast, and we've kind of like
lost a lot of people through you know, host changes,
(03:03):
through other amazing podcasts coming out and all these other things,
so so many things. We might not be the most popular,
but we are still available in public spheres, and so
speaking out loud, we also want to take responsibility in
making sure people are safe as well. So I've hit
this moment of like I want to talk about these organizations.
I would love for you our listeners who are involved
(03:26):
in things in that area, because obviously we are in
State of Georgia, in Atlanta, and we have a very
different viewpoint from people who are in New York, in
la in DC. Talked to Bridget today and found out
how she was doing stuff like that. So if you
have experiences like you can tell us about how you
have joined some protests recently and how well they went
for you, or how scary they we went for you,
(03:48):
or things that you have learned, we would love for
you to share.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
We need that right now.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We need that information because one of the things that
we can do as podcasters, and I feel like we
have a responsibility to do, is to be able to
tell the truth and highlight the things that are happening
around the country, especially when things are being suppressed pretty heavily.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So if you you know, our new email.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Address is hello at stuff Mom never told you dot com?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Did I get that right, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yep, that's your thing, so I can't remember always, but
please send us an email. You can go onto our
social media. We're not on that as active anymore because
again we are in bad places in our mental health sometimes,
so you know, but if you can send us your
stories of what things that you think you can share,
things that you're willing to share, please do because we
(04:39):
need those stories. This is something like I'm doing as
a call out. So this is why this episode is
a little different. And honestly, we're also in crush month.
This is what I'm gonna call it, because this is
the time of year right before the holidays where a
lot of activity happens. Birthdays, dragon con holidays, vacation times,
all those things happen around this time. So we are
(05:00):
trying to get everything straight. So we are recording this
and what timestamp is August twenty sixth of twenty twenty five,
so a little bit ahead, hey, because you know, for me,
I'm the procrastinator likes the way last minute.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But we're a little bit ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
So even with that, there are obviously things that are
changing and being ever so scary, with things happening all
around the world, all around the country, as we write,
as we record, as we release this episode, there are
more and more events happening, so bear with us, and
(05:35):
especially specific episodes like these. And as a quick side,
we are trying our best to navigate the internet to
weed out misinformation and disinformation and bad players who are
only adding to the confusion. So if we discover new
things about people or organizations that may.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Be something that's important.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Maybe that comes out with like, oh this was wrong,
they did this, they're anti this, we'll come out to
speak about it. And if you know something that you're
like a you probably don't want to talk about them,
let us know because we can't always get all that
information just from two people's perspective, so we always need
your assistance with that.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
But we are going to talk about some of the.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Past, organizations that have worked and have done some planning,
and that includes just the recent one, the No Kings
protests or an organization that have helped put together this
protest that happened in June of twenty twenty five. The
numbers are not completely clear, but the estimate attendees range
from two to four point eight million, so a pretty
(06:38):
big range across the country. There are some inaccuracies. The
inaccuracies seem to be due to the fact that small
towns were involved in this, and I love those posts.
One think about favorite things to see is the small
towns that I did not think would be a part
of protests like this. We're out and about, but it
was hard to count all of them, so there may
(06:59):
be more, who knows, and it's beautiful to see. Just recently,
I don't know if you know. Again, a time stamped it.
The Vice President came through Fayette County Phtree City, which
is one of the widest affluent areas in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Coming to talk about crime rates.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Everybody laughed because that's a golf art community. They literally
have lanes for golf carts.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Yeah, it's also where they filmed a lot of Marvel movies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Are they used to, Oh yeah, they used to.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So it's quite funny because they have probably some of
the better accessibilities for non car transportation.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Yeah, Also there's a lot to be said anyway, but
they had a protest there. It was lovely to see
protesting him and making sure they know that he knew
that he was not welcome. And there was no crime
to be talked about, like, of course there's small crime everywhere.
What we should be talking about is gun control, because
if we wanted to control any type of crime, that
(07:58):
would be it.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But they whatever. But yeah, so no Kings has been
a part of that.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
They were able to infiltrate the whole country and many
people came out. I love the amount of people that
went through this we were able to see and participated.
One of the things that made this protest successful was
due to the fact that, again it was in more
areas than any others, so they had around twenty one
hundred and fifty areas, where like the women's protests that
was also one of the largest in our lifetime, only
(08:26):
had six hundred and fifty locations, So it was pretty
impressive that it was as widespread as it was and
with that, this organization has pushed to encourage more people
to get involved with protesting and activism. In their site,
(08:49):
they had a program called a one Million Rising, which
is an effort to train people on a local scale
for resistance and for protests, which I loved. From their site,
they said one Million Rising as a national effort to
train one million people to resist authoritarianism together through a
series of trainings and local gatherings, will build the strategy,
(09:09):
skills and people power it takes to stop Trump and
his enablers from seizing more power. This is how we
get organized, this is how we win. So I love that.
So they had like a four part program on how
to get it done and listing things. They do have
some stuff on their site to show where the areas
that have come through and trained so that we can
see if things are going forward with types of protests.
(09:32):
And with that, they have completed that first batch of
sessions with several locations registered, so hopefully we can see
more of that. Again, this is one of those situations
where I kind of go iffy because if they wanted,
if they were be targeted, which we've seen in fascist
states that that does happen, and this information is important
to note, so's.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Be weary because I know no kings.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
We also had that big controversy where they try to
get people to register and everybody's like wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait, that doesn't seem like
a good idea, and I will hold it that that
doesn't seem like a good idea. I think it's interesting
to note that they wanted to know how many people
would attend for like number wise, but for safety reasons.
This seems like a bad idea, just to put that
(10:16):
out there. So in just recently, like this month in LA,
there's been many many protests. People are calling it music
fests on TikTok because TikTok is really.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Going downhill. We're just gonna say that way.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
They had a twenty four hour day of action which
was planned by different groups including CHERLA or the Coalition
of Human Immigration Rights in LA which was founded in
nineteen eighty six, or the SEIU which is the Service
Employees International Union, and several other key players that came
in with different unions and definite immigration sites. They came
together working to mobilize and protests against the kidnapping illegal
(10:54):
arrests that committed by ice. So there's a lot of
cool things happening there. There's still going from what I understand,
I think was just like not being noted. People are
not seeing what's happening. And of course the only times
we see anything happening is if there's any kind of violence,
and well, we know how that got gets to that point,
don't we and moving.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
On and then you know what, I don't know, we've
talked enough about this. I think we've talked about it before.
But the Quaker.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Community, let's just give a shout out to that Quaker
community who've been leaders and examples of protesting and nonviolent
protesting for years, four years since the like like in
the US, since the ending of slavery, they were there
as champions and advocates to the black community in that
time to end slavery, like they have been a part
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of this community. In fact, not too long ago they
there was like a group of like three hundred Quakers
who marched from New York City to Washington, d C.
In protests of the immigration policies implemented by the current administration.
Like they marched all the way down in solidarity with
immigrants and how this administration is wreaking havoc and.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Doing illegal things.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
And with that there are prime examples of consistent support
and advocacy work again throughout history, Like I really want
to talk more about it, but just recently Quaker protesters
were arrested along with others for protesting and supports Palestine
in the UK. They have chapters in groups. I believe
they call them the Friends because you know they used
to be the Friends Society. I believe what they were before,
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like as the Quakers, and that they have been consistently
a part of these peaceful protests and willing to be
arrested in the name of justice. I'd love to see
it and also just as to put it out there
because again Labor Day is coming around, and I believe
there's some things happening. There's some active activism happening for
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those of you participating. Here's some reminders from Amnesty dot
org and their new campaign which they call Protect the Protest,
which is working to protect protesters and their rights and
being able to peacefully protest and to alert the public
of the violations occurring in suppressing that right. It's occurring
now as in fact, there was an executive water about
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arresting people who burn the flag, which has been a
form of protests for years, for decades, for decades, and
we know what's happening moving on. So they write this,
know your rights. You have a right to peacefully assemble,
a right to privacy, and a right to protest. If
you get injured, you have the right to receive medical care.
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Police must avoid the use of force. So they say
to do these following things. Go ahead and plan ahead.
Make sure you know where you're going, make sure you
know where you can meet up, know the area, know
the area well. Wear protective clothing. And I think we've
talked about this in so many of the Black Lives.
Matter of wild wif that's important, whether it's eye wear,
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whether it's not wearing contacts, whether it's wearing clothes that
are neutral and not marked, wearing masks because COVID is.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Still out there. COVID is still out there.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
And then talking about packing emergency supplies, get your say
first aid kit. I actually take contact solution and such
because that can help flush out eyes. When we were
doing pepper spray things for my old job, because we
had to get pepper sprayed, they told us to use
baby shampoo that did not work, just so you know,
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but you can try it. Don't use milk that has
been highly yelled at. Don't use milk because I actually
can make it a bacterial infection and may be really gross,
So don't do that. But emergency supplies, including emergency numbers,
knowing your rights, all of those things, and honestly, with
what's happening with ice and illegal detentions and kidnappings and
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even like people faking being iced to attack women, that's
a whole different conversation. Be prepared to document human rights abuses.
You have the right to film people, especially in this situation.
What we would say is, if you're filming and recording
because you're so excited about being a part of the protest,
do not show people's faces.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Do not show people's faces. So there's a lot to
be said in this moment.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Again, we do ask if you have examples, if you
have stories that you want to share in these protests,
if you have ideas, or if you have actual organizations
that you think should be shared, because I think that's
something that we don't have enough of, then please let
us know. Because honestly, I even asked our friend of
show Bridget who is an activist in DC, Like, what
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do you know? Who do you know?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Because it's really.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Hard to find credible sources that tell you who is
trustworthy and who is not. I know right now indivisible
dot org, which is a nonprofit that has a lot
of law makers, law lawyers and such as part of
the organizations, are hosting protests right now throughout I just
saw one in Boca Ratan, so I'd love to see that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But let us know, let us know because we need
that information.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
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