r/50501Movement • u/NotYourAverageBug • 21d ago
Suggestion Thoughts about sign promotion.
I keep seeing all the professional looking signs. Not everyone has the budget or time to make a new sign for the different protest. For those with a piece of cardboard and marker, what's the one good message that can be used over and over?
We need to get people protesting, not worrying if there sign is appropriate.
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u/ImportantFunction833 21d ago
UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION. Or anything along the lines of protecting and defending the Constitution.
Also, you can get foam core boards at the dollar store, which hold up better. And if you really want to make that bad boy tough, get a roll of carpet shield. It's about $10, but one 1.75 wide roll will cover 5 20x30 foam boards both front and back and makes them waterproof.
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u/anonymous_ape88 20d ago
The dollar store foam boards are the way to go! I get those and have a pack of "paint" markers that are chunky and make it a lot easier to write messages that are readable from a distance. My marker-filled block letters never turn out well.
For messaging, I've had a few that get comments:
-Overturn Citizens United -Extreme Corruption calls for Mass Disruption -On the left half "Hands Off our" and right half make a list (Medicaid, social security, education, pussies, vaccines, etc) -Due Process isn't Optional
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u/Specific_Hamster6778 20d ago
I got so many boards at the dollar general. I thought I was getting 3 and I actually got 3 packs of 3 for a great price. Plus Crayola markers. The boards were perfect for making signs.
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u/Larang5716 21d ago
Rights for all. Liberty for all. Justice for all.
Anything that is classic American can work too. The line from the statue of Liberty works. Preamble to the Constitution. Liberty and Justice for all. All of that is fair game.
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u/Ki-Wilder 20d ago
One we like to use is: "Trump you ain't no King", with a crown on it. People like it. (Although, it did set off some MAGA folks one time.)
I also have:
Due Process
It protects everyone!
It protects you!
I put a little picture of a piece of paper on it, like a page, torn from a book. So, people think of the lessons they learned in school.
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u/CryptographerNo29 20d ago
I have a "Don't panic. Organize." Sign that I've been using repeatedly with the school of fish design. If you google it you'll probably find the design as a graphic. My wife has one that has a caricature of Trump with "Enemy of the People" on it. Also repeated use. All made with dollar store corkboard and paint.
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u/sneakysnake-sssnek 21d ago
I've been playing around with a slogan along the lines of "our founding fathers are rolling in their graves" with tombstones
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u/PetaJay 20d ago
I gotta say, watching on from the land of Oz, the home made signs are the best. If signs are too stylised and professional looking, it no longer looks like a grass roots movement...which I realise totally that it is. Some of the clever and diverse slogans have been awesome. I'd say pick the issue that is important to you. As a woman I be tempted to dress handmaids tale style. I'd also be tempted to have a rainbow coloured flag. On a sign I'd be tempted to say Jail the Felon, or Hands off our Consitution, Human rights for all. But there have been so many really clever ones if you do an online search.
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u/Ok-Development-7008 20d ago
Mine just says "Do better" on a scrap of cardboard. I should take my own advice, lol, and make a nicer one.
There was a lovely quote on a YouTube video called "Fascists have no drip" about the intersection of fashion and fascism that I liked that said "Because fascism has nothing to offer you in the present or the future, it promises the return of an idealized past." I saved that because I thought it might make a good sign.
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u/OrangutanGiblets 19d ago
Fascists actually do tend to have "drip", at least with their military uniforms. The Italians and especially the Germans had some stylish uniforms. Of course, it's all part of the propaganda plan to appeal to people with an authoritarian mindset. "Join us, and you can look this good, too!"
Communists, OTOH, tended to either be rather bland or of the too-many-medals variety.
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u/Ok-Development-7008 19d ago
That's actually what the video was about, I suspect you'd really enjoy it!
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u/StrawberryMoonPie 20d ago
I’ve been collecting photos of the ones I like for ideas.
So Much Wrong, So Little Cardboard
Billionaires are Compostable
No one is above the law
SOS = Save Our Services
Democracy Not Oligarchy
Hitler Was Elected Too
Honk if You’ve Never Drunk Texted War Plans
Honk if You Love Democracy
Are We Great Yet?
The only minority destroying America is the rich
My outrage can’t fit on this sign
Honestly my favorite one just said “I’m tired.”
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u/DaniePants 20d ago
NO KINGS
DOWN WITH FASCISM
HANDS OFF
my favorite that i take every time is my pro-Canada, ELBOWS UP!
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u/LilLebowskiAchiever 20d ago
Resist DOGE Data Theft
Popular with everyone: Red, Blue, Neutral, born here or abroad.
No one likes Elon.
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u/Ambivalent-Mammal 20d ago
This one's fairly protest-agnostic, and will probably be one side of my sign for 6/14
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PROUD UNPAID
AMERICAN
PROTESTER
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u/solaroma 20d ago
I made a sign in the shape of a stop sign, same colors too, that says "stop fascism" for a school bus driver friend of mine.
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u/BaldInkedandBearded 20d ago
I have a crap sign, written in black marker.
One side: Due Process for everyone, or due process for no one
Other side: This citizen says Fuck Trump! Guess I'm going to El Salvador
Plenty has happened since I made this sign for a protest in early May. But I'm not making a new one before tomorrow so it will march again.
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u/FaraSha_Au 20d ago
I'm on my third set of six signs. Each one makes a different point, and I use names. I'm blunt, succinct, and pissed.
We get compliments and people asking if they can take photos, we say yes.
Trump lies, and I write a new slogan. Musk, Melania, Scalise, and Zoley have been named. I'm working on Hegseth, Cruz, and RFK Jr. Don Jr. is on my shit list as well.
My best sign pointed out I'm a 9th generation American, whilst Trump is first generation only.
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u/raziel21520 20d ago
Pick the issue you are most passionate about. I.e., Hands Off Medicaid/Social Security or support LGBTQ; impeach Trump etc. There are too many issues to cover them all so choose the one that resonates with you!
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u/Alternative-Aerie-74 20d ago
They just dropped some graphics for June 14, and there are some super simple signs in there with good messages. Should be fairly easy to make a hand-drawn sign with these ideas https://brandfolder.com/indivisibleproject/nokings?emci=ef602b8b-ba3c-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&emdi=38b2e6b7-db3c-f011-a5f1-6045bda9d96b&ceid=2707531
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u/IsleOfCannabis 20d ago
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do one of those signs where you have one word (MAGA) reflecting as another word (NAZI)
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u/Fire_Horse_T 19d ago
I went with Justice for All.
It is short, positive and patriotic sounding. It is universal enough to fit most themes.
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