50 Days of Shame: Arkansas

📣 STATEWIDE PROTEST: “50 DAYS OF SHAME” — Little Rock, Saturday 7/12

🛑 One state. One voice. One protest.
📍 LITTLE ROCK - Under the I-30 Overpass (Next to the Courtyard Hotel in Downtown Little Rock)
⏰ 12:30PM - 3:00PM

PLEASE NOTE THE ADDRESS LISTED HERE IS TO THE HOTEL. THE RALLY IS UNDER THE OVERPASS.

🎯 We are demanding an end to fascist politics, to government corruption, and to the ongoing betrayal of the people of Arkansas.

On Saturday, July 12th, The People’s Protests and Marches of Arkansas and 50501 Arkansas are joining forces with organizers across the country for a nationwide day of resistance — one protest in every state. In Arkansas, Little Rock will be the only protest location, and we are calling on every region across the state to rise up and show up.

This day is part of the “50 Days of Shame” campaign — a direct call to our state representatives and senators to do their jobs: represent the people, not the Trump Administration.

While they remain silent or complicit in the face of authoritarianism, we will not.
While they ignore economic injustice, environmental collapse, and attacks on our rights, we will rise.

🔥 Arkansas Issues to Protest on 7/12:

📚 Attacks on Education
• Book bans, censorship, DEI rollbacks, school defunding, and the LEARNS Act

🏥 Healthcare Failures
• Rural hospital closures, Medicaid/Medicare cuts, anti-trans laws, abortion bans, maternal health crisis

🏛️ Government Corruption
• Power grabs, gerrymandering, silencing public input

🏳️‍🌈 Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
• Targeting trans youth, erasing LGBTQ+ identities

💸 Poverty & Injustice
• Low wages, union-busting, cuts to social safety nets like SNAP, racial injustice 

🌲 Environmental Harm
• Pollution, clearcutting, lack of clean water protections, natural disaster relief, and assistance to our farmers

🗳️ Attacks on Democracy
• Voter suppression, restricting ballot initiatives, lack of due process for immigrants, attacks on D.E.I groups 

🚨 Police Overreach
• No accountability, over-policing, rising militarization, militarization of our police, ICE overreach 

🏚️ Housing Crisis
• Evictions, unaffordable rent, weak renter protections

🎖️Neglect of Veterans
• Underfunded VA support, lack of healthcare, housing, and mental health resources for those who served


🎒 What to Bring:

✅ WATER - PLEASE COME HYDRATED!

✅ Protest Signs – Show the faces and names of Arkansas reps and senators. Call out their silence and complicity with bold slogans like “Do Your Job” or “Shame Has a Name.”

✅ Effigies – Get creative. Bring symbolic or satirical effigies of state leaders who’ve failed us.

✅ Protest Umbrellas – Reuse your decorated umbrellas from the 6/14 No Kings March, or bring a blank one to customize on-site.

✅ American Flags – Reclaim the flag for the people. 

✅ Creative Expression - bring art, costumes, and any other ways in which you would like to show creativity. 


The People’s Protests and Marches of AR and 50501 Arkansas are joining forces with other organizers and organizations from around the state to make this possible. We will also be working with these groups on coordinating buses, carpooling, and other travel accommodations from areas across Arkansas. Please stay tuned for a list of participating organizations and organizers as well as carpooling efforts.

Let’s remind them: We are watching. We are voting. We are not going away.
Join us in Little Rock and help make Arkansas impossible to ignore.