Photo by Rachel Kurzius.

To get into the inaugural parade or the ceremony itself on Friday, attendees will have to pass through a series of security checkpoints. And at each of those 12 checkpoints, around 100 activists will be “symbolically and physically” blocking them.

Each of the dozen checkpoint actions is helmed by organizers who are bringing attention to different issues and “communities under threat in a Trump presidency,” explained Samantha Miller, an organizer with DisruptJ20, the name for a volunteer-run group also known as the D.C. Counter-Inaugural Committee, during a press conference at St. Stephens on Wednesday.

Those actions include a racial justice checkpoint, a climate checkpoint, a future is feminist checkpoint, a qockblockade brigade, an anti-war bloc, and more.

“This is really the day to show the broad range of resistance Trump can expect every time he threatens these groups,” says Miller. “It’s gonna take all of us, using all the ways we know how to protest, to build a movement.”

With the exception of the Standing Rock checkpoint, local D.C. activists will be leading all the events, explains organizer Lilly Daigle. “Turning out 100 people to face Trump supporters and block them on Inauguration Day is not an easy ask,” she says. In total, they’re expecting a total of around 1,000 people to take part in the blockades, though the forecast for rain could impact turnout.

Each group is responsible for its own tone and tactics, which will range from more symbolic actions, like a flash mob, versus “higher risk options,” with tactics that Daigle says she’s not at liberty to discuss. She puts the spread at about 50/50. However, all of them have committed to nonviolence.

“We’re encouraging everyone to stay safe,” says Miller. “We’re definitely not encouraging anyone to hurt themselves or others.”

Because the checkpoint actions are self-organized, some will begin as early as 5 a.m. and as late as 8 a.m. Daigle says that they have little expectation of cell service, though the groups will livestream the actions if they can.

Unlike two planned DisruptJ20 demonstrations at Columbus Circle and McPherson Square, which were permitted for a march and a convergence space, respectively, these blockades are not permitted.

Because of that, they’re expecting to deal with police. “There will definitely be interactions with law enforcement that day, no doubt,” says Miller. “Blockades are not permitted actions—they’re direct actions.”

D.C. Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Kevin Donahue told DCist two weeks ago that the city wasn’t expecting mass arrests. “MPD is planning for the possibility,” Donahue said. “But it doesn’t mean they expect or believe it will happen.”

DisruptJ20 also getting ready to deal with unruly Trump supporters, like Bikers for Trump, which have pledged to serve as a kind of vigilante “wall of meat” to protect against protestors.

DisruptJ20 is dispatching trained de-escalators and legal observers to the blockades. “We’re hoping a lot of you will be out there with your cameras to make sure nothing goes unnoticed,” Miller said while addressing media.

The National Lawyers Guild announced yesterday that it was “organizing a mass defense infrastructure of Legal Observers, jail support, and lawyers” for the DisruptJ20 actions. In addition to that, the group has its own team.

The blockades are just one part of what DisruptJ20 has in store for Trump’s inauguration. The group has been organizing for this weekend for months before the election occurred, but the actions “took on a whole new significance when results came in,” said DisruptJ20 spokesperson Lacy MacAuley.

The group’s first big action is the Queer Dance Party at Mike Pence’s House, scheduled for Wednesday evening at 6 p.m.

There’ll also be scattered protests Thursday, in front of the Deploraball. Some DisruptJ20 protesters were caught on a video released by conservative “guerilla journalist” and Punk’d wannabe James O’Keefe saying they’d release stink bombs at the pro-Trump event, which activists said was a joke.

“For the record, there is no plot to put a stink bomb in the Deploraball or any other high school prank,” said MacAuley, who says that O’Keefe’s Project Veritas “wanted to distract from the sentiment of a huge number of people in the U.S. who stand with us and want to oppose Donald Trump’s agenda.”

She added that her phone rings roughly once or twice a minute because “people are sending me a lot of nasty messages.” But she said they’re not serving the intended purpose. “These death threats, while they’re really dramatic, actually do not make me want to back down at all. They make me aware of just how much work we have to do.”

Miller agreed. “They’re infiltrating us and we’re the ones getting death threats,” she said. “That should illustrate where the violence is coming from.”

In addition to the blockades, Friday will also feature a bevy of marches, including an unpermitted Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Fascist Bloc meeting at Logan Circle.

A noon permitted march, called the Festival of Resistance, will begin at noon. Miller said that the march will feature “activist marching bands, puppets, crews of drummers, a large labor contingent from the D.C, area, a kids and family continent, led by an indigenous delegation.”

MacAuley described McPherson Square, permitted beginning at 9 a.m., as a “convergence space” with phone chargers, workshops, and detailed information about other events taking place. The two marches will converge for a rally at the square around 2 p.m.

“We expect to set the tone of resistance here for the coming years,” said MacAuley. “It’s not about who won or lost an election. What it’s about is calling for the world we would like to move to … where we make policies from love and not fear.”