50501 CO Update - 5/11

Bringing Coloradans the latest protests and actions

May 11, 2025

Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of our 50501 CO newsletter!

In this newsletter you’ll find information on upcoming activities from the 50501 calendar, actions you can take outside of protesting, and also find out about additional ways to connect with us.

See you on the streets! ✊✊✊

Actions and Activities

(The below list contains details on all actions this week which have been submitted to our 50501 CO calendar; click the link above for more details and the full calendar)

All cities
- 5/6 - 5/12: Amazon Boycott
Aurora
- 5/12: 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Jeanette Vizguerra Vigil (Geo Group Inc/ICE facility, 3130 N Oakland St, Aurora, CO 80010)
Denver
- 5/17: 10:00 AM - Colorado Rally for Public Lands (Colorado State Capitol)
Greeley
- 5/16: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Protest Gabe Evans (Gabe Evans Greeley Office, 3400 West 16th St, Building 1S, Suite C, Greeley , Colorado 80634)
Lakewood
- 5/13: 6:30 - 8:00 PM - Creating Communities of Hope (Bardo Coffee House 3333 S. Wadsworth C105)
Littleton
- 5/13: 4:30 - 6:00 PM - Teslatakedown Tuesday (5700 South Broadway 80121)
Northglenn
- 5/16: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Protest Gabe Evans (Gabe Evans Northglenn Office, 10701 Melody Drive 80234)
Pueblo
- 5/17: 12:00 - 1:30 PM - Protect the constitution (Location TBD)

Non-Protest Actions Bingo

The below bingo card contains a list of actions you can take (other than protesting) to help further the cause. If you get a bingo (or heck, a blackout), tag us on social media to let us know!

Decentralized Futures: Building Infrastructure That Outlives Protest

Decentralization isn’t just how we fight. It’s how we survive. How we imagine forward.

Protest is not the endpoint. It’s the spark, the rupture, the collective inhale before something must be built. If we stop there, we leave behind only burned streets and hashtags. But when protest leads to the construction of care systems, of mutual aid pods, of radical schools and gardens, we begin to inhabit the world we’re dreaming of.

Decentralized organizing is often framed as reactive. But it also offers a blueprint for life beyond collapse. When we decentralize, we are not just refusing control. We are practicing autonomy. Practicing survival. Practicing futures.

We don’t just resist brutality, we build joy that cannot be confiscated.

From Reaction to Rebuilding: Five Pillars of Decentralized Infrastructure

Food Sovereignty & Mutual Aid Kitchens

Feeding each other is one of the most radical acts of resistance. From community fridges to mutual aid kitchens to guerrilla gardens planted in city lots, decentralized food systems are growing everywhere.

In Los Angeles, Black-led food collectives deliver groceries door to door.
In New York, volunteers run community fridges 24/7.
In Minneapolis, free pantries sprung up overnight during the George Floyd uprisings.

Food is not charity. It is strategy. It is sustenance. It is dignity without dependency.

Liberatory Education

Decentralized movements are teaching each other what schools refuse to: abolition, land back, mutual aid, queer history, and climate resistance.

Freedom schools held in libraries, backyards, and Zoom rooms.
Radical curriculum collectives exchanging zines and resources.
Unschooling pods and co-ops giving children access to education without hierarchy.

To decentralize education is to decolonize knowledge.

Digital Autonomy & Narrative Sovereignty

The state relies on visibility to target. Corporate media distorts and flattens resistance. Decentralized tech infrastructure protects movement memory and autonomy.