Editing Attendee Should I Attend In Person (section)

==== The guidance provided in this page is not definitive but is compiled from activist organizers that have attended/organized hundreds of protests with 30+ organizations involved with a variety of rights issues. ====


We are going to see a ton of new groups starting to organize in 2025 we are in a historic time that is firing up lots of people. Every major times of social movement see not just one but many groups created to counter. Not all protests will be the same since like people organizational groups are different and will have different approaches, goals, and experience.  

Every existing group at one time or another was new. [[wikipedia:2017_Women's_March|Women's march]], [[wikipedia:March_for_Our_Lives|March for our Lives]], [[wikipedia:Black_Lives_Matter|Black Lives Matter]], even the original [[wikipedia:Civil_rights_movement|civil rights marches]] and [[wikipedia:Women's_suffrage|Women Suffrage]]. All of them started somewhere. New groups can start and hold first protests that are done well. So don't automatically let "new group" be a "don't attend". However, there are important things to look for with any group, new or old, organizing a protest.