We plan these protests to recruit new people into the movement and send a clear message to the regime: we are not cowed. But those things only happen if people show up, so every organizer feels a twinge of anxiety when events go public.
The need to advertise, recruit, and build momentum is paramount. That’s how we land the punch we need to land. That’s how the mass movement muscle actually grows. That’s how we achieve — slowly but surely — the famed 3.5% of the population engaged in active defiance of the regime.
We need you to be an advertiser, an influencer, and a recruiter for democracy in the coming days and weeks. We need you telling your friends, family, and colleagues to mark their calendar. We need you RSVPing for the event in your city, or signing up to host your own. We need you thinking creatively about how to let others know. We need you reaching out to your famous cousin twice removed to post, or create a video, or record a song about it.
We need to make No Kings an inevitability. We need the question to become not “Will they come?” but instead “Who on earth isn’t coming?”
Make a plan to do your part to turn October 18 into the largest show of defiance against the regime yet. We’re all counting on you.
To submit an event to the calendar, email calendar@swingbluealliance.org