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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

These times call for courage, and thankfully those who stand up against fascism have organizations like @nlg.org to support them when they are targeted. Learn more in #ProtectTheProtest's newest member spotlight story ➡️ www.protecttheprotest.org/stories/member-spotlight-national-lawyers-guild

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit on 4/20 against The Atlantic after it published an investigation alleging he drinks to excess and has unexplained absences from FBI headquarters. The story cited more than two dozen sources, including current and formal officials.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#TodayInProtestHistory: April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day 🌎 Fifty six years ago today, 20 million Americans (1 in 10 people in this country!) flooded city streets, college campuses, and town squares to participate in the demand for clean air, clean water, and a livable planet.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#TodayInProtestHistory: On February 28, 1969 we remember a powerful moment when the #BlackPanther Party mobilized at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia to resist legislation designed to suppress their organizing and undermine their right to bear arms and assemble.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

#TodayInProtestHistory 2/27/1973 marked the beginning of the #WoundedKnee Occupation, when members of the American Indian Movement took a stand at the location of the 1890 massacre to demand the U.S. honor its Treaties & investigate corruption & violence impacting Indigenous Peoples on Pine Ridge.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#TodayInProtestHistory: Violent Attacks on Water Protectors at Standing Rock 🧵👇 On November 20, 2016, police violently attacked Indigenous Water Protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation during the Indigenous-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. #ProtectTheProtest

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Land Back/Mount Rushmore (1868-ongoing) #LandBack is rooted in the Lakota demand to return the Black Hills – land stolen and desecrated by Mount Rushmore. Since the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty was broken, people have marched, occupied, and reclaimed space to demand the land’s return.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Alcatraz Occupation (1969-1971) The activist group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) reclaimed the abandoned Bay Area prison and held it for 19 months. Their action reawakened Indigenous activism, and reshaped the struggle for sovereignty across generations. #AlcatrazOccupation

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (1990s-ongoing) This movement exposes the crisis of violence, disappearance, and murder of Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit people, and relatives. The red handprint has become a universal symbol of grief, rage, and love because of #MMIWG.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Idle No More (2012-2013) Founded by three Indigenous women and one non-Native ally in so-called Canada, #IdleNoMore sparked a global movement.Through teach-ins, songs, and round dances, it called for sovereignty, protection of the land, and renewal of Indigenous law.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Mauna Kea Protectors (2014-ongoing) Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiians) have resisted construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the sacred Mauna Kea volcano for over a decade. Their movement is a model for spiritual and ecological defense. #ProtectMaunaKea @kanaeokana.bsky.social

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Standing Rock/#NoDAPL (2016-ongoing) The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of Indigenous Water Protectors stood against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Their courage and solidarity shifted global consciousness and redefined the climate justice movement. #MniWiconi #WaterIsLife

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Line 3 Pipeline Resistance (2017-2021) Anishinaabe women and Two-Spirit land defenders led the fight against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. Their resistance linked climate justice to treaty rights, and showed what it means to protect water and future generations. #StopLine3

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Wet’suwet’en Resistance (2019-ongoing) Hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation continue to oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline across unceded territory. Their defense of land and law sparked a wave of solidarity blockades across so-called Canada. #WetsuwetenStrong

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Red Hill Water Crisis (2021-ongoing) When the US Navy’s Red Hill fuel tanks leaked into O’ahu’s aquifer, Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) organizers led the fight to protect the island’s water. They called it environmental violence and won a permanent shutdown. #WaterIsLife

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Oak Flat/Apache Stronghold (2021-ongoing) Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat) is land of ceremony and spirit for Apache, but it is under threat of a foreign mining company. The Apache Stronghold continues to defend this sacred land through prayer, direct action, and the courts. #SaveOakFlat

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

#TodayInProtestHistory: The March on Washington. On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people gathered in D.C. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a turning point in the fight for civil rights, and proof that mass protest can shift public opinion and force political change.

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

#TodayInProtestHistory: Kenosha Unrest On August 25, 2020, Kenosha, WI, became a flashpoint in the national uprising for racial justice as protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake entered a third night. What unfolded showed the power & peril of protest in an era of rising authoritarianism.

Protestors holding a "Justice for Jacob" banner in Kenosha Wisconsin in 2020. Photo from Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA).

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The Protect the Protest coalition @protectingprotest.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The #ProtectTheProtest coalition was formed to meet the urgent need to protect the fundamental rights to free speech and assembly. In this political moment, the need for protest and collective resistance is more critical than ever. www.protecttheprotest.org/stories/stat... #ProtestWorks

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