A Prototype Weekend
To inaugurate The People vs. Project 2025, we staged several prototype actions for the weekend of the Autumn Equinox (September 20-21). We used the weekend as an opportunity to experiment with the types of actions we take on and use the events as a way to learn and develop best practices for 2026.
Our list of actions for September 20 - 21 was as follows:
Saturday September 20 - Sunday September 21
Chalk The Walk Wherever You Are
Multiple Locations
Daytona Beach Florida
Any Time Saturday or Sunday
Facebook Information Page
An action organized by Just Us Volusia, it was an invitation for people to create rainbow flags using chalk at locations throughout Daytona Beach and Volusia County as a response to the State of Florida painting over of the PULSE Nightclub Memorial Sidewalk in Orlando. The idea was to create more rainbows, more messages and reach more people throughout the community than a single action in one centralized space.
Saturday, September 20
We Got The Power Flash Dance & Live Performance
Civic Center Plaza
San Francisco, California
10:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Time
Event Web Page
Live Stream Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@sfiaf
Road Chalking & We Got The Power Flash Dance
Democratic Town Committee Parking Lot
55 Lyme St, Old Lyme, Connecticut
12:00pm Eastern Time
Chalk the Walk in Oshkosh!
Corners of Algoma Blvd and Congress Ave
Hiker Park
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1:00pm - 4:00pm Central Time
Event on Facebook
Event Website
Led by Peaceful Patriots, a non-partisan group of like minded people focused on spreading awareness and fighting for democracy. Peaceful Patriots is an action based group with a high interest in peaceful gatherings, flexing democratic muscle by practicing First Amendment rights. The group provides a venue for the Fox Valley to protest. The group's mission is to spread awareness to the public and representatives that people's voices matter at a local, state, and national level.
Homeless Congress
Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition
Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio
3:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern Time
The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Congress was joined by allies from across the city to culminate their annual gathering with a creative action.
The Congress mounted a participatory performance as a response to the recent executive order on homelessness, by drawing on artistic, civil rights, and abolitionist histories that assert the unconditional humanity, dignity, equality, and value of all people*.
*I Am a Man, 1968 sanitation workers strike slogan; Ain’t I a Woman?, Sojourner Truth; I Am. Amen., Hank Willis Thomas
Sunday September 21
Hip-Hop 50 Boombox
treet Work Festival
34th Avenue / 78th Street Queens, New York
11:00am – 6:00pm Eastern Time
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Mean. Equity
Street Work Festival
34th Avenue / 78th Street Queens, New York
11:00am – 6:00pm Eastern Time
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Swan Song
Street Work Festival
34th Avenue / 78th Street Queens, New York
11:00am – 6:00pm Eastern Time
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