I'm in a rural area, so when the first No Kings protest happened, I commuted for half an hour to get to the protest. On the way home, we saw another protest closer to home, and it turns out that my tiny town of 2k had a handful of people who had already formed a group, and I just didn't know about it because they were only on facebook.

Now I'm working on getting us set up with a real website and doing a bunch of graphic design to make us more visible, somebody else is networking our group into Indivisible and 50501, and the group is already starting to grow. We had 16 people show up to the Labor Day protest, handed out flyers, and got 40 people to come to our potluck the next weekend.

Our weekly meetings are starting to outgrow the coffee shop we're meeting at, but one of the members family has a building that we can use for free if we help clean it out. We're talking about getting the group rapid response training, and just in general planning for the worst to happen. It's a periwinkle blue town, but it borders on a deep red area, so it's nice to know that I know people who will advocate for me if I get picked up by ICE or assaulted by a MAGA or something.

Now we're gearing up for No Kings II, and attaching a sign-making party before the march as more community networking time.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 3 days ago

Well that’s not nothing, that’s for sure. Good on ya man.