The main strip above the international fountain has… how do I say this politely…? Corporate pride vibes.

There are a lot of disparate organization booths. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, that’s how organizing works. You find common ground.

Not all of them are united in messaging though. The best example I can find is this booth advertising Sawant.

Sawant was one of the politicians who, in my opinion, crashed previous anti fascist protests. Maybe it was even no kings.

My favorite part of the plan is that they clarify that yes, you do need to talk to strangers, they’re not so scary. It attempts to guide shy attendees through the process of making friends with randos.

Again, I feel like this is in direct response to cynicism about protests like No Kings being performative.

Frankly, if you meet your people and do anything together in the future, I’d call that closer to antifascism than where we started.

The organizers have been kind enough to share their materials (their nails are amazing). So I can tell you a bit about what we’ll be doing today.

Please be patient with me while I add alt text, there’s a lot to type!

This one says “find your neighborhood by the circles… meet organizations taking action at the rectangles”.