On April 1, 2013, a prominent political figure within the Cosararan Socialist Party, in conjunction with the Party as well as a few military officers, gathered an estimated 80,000-100,000 workers, students, and Party supporters near Vega Beach's main commercial district to announce the formation of "The Wave" (please play along, don't yell at me...), a citizen-led nation-wide youth and worker program and movement. The goal of the Wave, he said, was to "combat foreign oppression in Cosarara and the sphere of influence and spread the truth to the people of this country, to get the youth involved in saving this country, to restore the Great Leader and his Party's founding principles, knowledge, and common sense, and to show the foreign aggressors that we have a voice as well."

He appeared on television earlier that afternoon following news of a takeover of the Ministry of Media. At the rally, a few introductory statements about the Wave were made to the crowd.

While there, he talked about the Ministry of Media takeover, the threats that Equestria and the Crystal Empire posed towards Cosarara as well as the rest of the world, the situation in the Koreas, the U.S.' "clowning around", among others. He emphasized the accomplishments of the Cosararan people since 1983, 1996 (after the damage from the Insurrection had been reversed), as well as 2013 (with the recent steelworkers' strike).

It didn't take long for "courses of action" to start circulating through the crowd. Suggestions included recruiting and informing new Wave members, getting support of others, getting support from the government, the military, and other well-known people, with a few even suggesting bolstering up the military.

Once the speaker had taken all of the thoughts into consideration, he roused up the crowd one last time, and in a controversial manner: the new leader of the Wave spray-painted Nazi swastikas on the flags of Equestria and the Crystal Empire before setting them alight to screams of the movement's new motto:

"Strength through brotherhood!

Strength through equality!

Strength through community!

Strength through action!"

with a few saying "Strength through pride!"

(strength through national pride was said to be the meaning of that last saying)

Where the rally took place.