Arizona bills threaten free speech rights The Arizona Legislature is considering a series of bills which could restrict citizens' right to protest peacefully.The effort comes as Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity is on the rise in

#Arizona's SB 1635 would make it illegal to warn someone of an impending arrest — even for peaceful protest. HB 2136 adds "civil terrorism" charges for certain demonstrations. Both bills are advancing. @acluaz.bsky.social calls it a direct assault on constitutional rights.
#FreeSpeech #ProtestRights

A flyer about raising bail for three people who were arrested at No Kings Memphis. After an entire day of peaceful protest and an orderly march, police suddenly ran up behind several safety marshals, grabbed and arrested them, while unloading pepper spray all over the crowd.

If you believe protest is not a crime; if you believe people shouldn’t be punished for speaking out; if you believe Memphis takes care of its own… Step up!

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Know your protest rights.

#Protest #ProtestRights #NoKings #Seattle #Washington

Know your protest rights.

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Important information for Saturday!

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A megaphone wrapped in chains with a heavy padlock. Haiku overlay: voice in the street now / carries a hundred thousand / dollar price tag

Georgia's legislature passed two bills, now awaiting the governor's signature:

SB 443: Blocking roads → 1 year jail, $5K fine
HB 1076: Obstructing police with vehicle → felony, $100K fine

Critics see a price tag on dissent.

#Georgia #ProtestRights

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Vermont Protest Policing Case On March 23, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case involving Shela Linton, a protester arrested during a nonviolent sit-in at the Vermont state capitol demanding universal healthcare. The per curiam order highlighted low safety threats, non-severe trespass charge, and police use of force without warnings, raising issues of civil liberties and policing practices.

Supreme Court just passed on a Vermont case about a protester arrested at a peaceful sit-in. No warnings, just force over a minor trespass. Makes ya wonder how far 'public safety' stretches before it’s just control. Thoughts? #CivilLiberties #RhodeIsland #ProtestRights

Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees) · No Kings In this ACLU-led training, participants will learn about the Constitutional right to peacefully protest and about best practices for reducing risks when attending protests like the upcoming No Kings m...

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Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees) · No Kings In this ACLU-led training, participants will learn about the Constitutional right to peacefully protest and about best practices for reducing risks when attending protests like the upcoming No Kings m...

There’s still time to improve your activist A-game before No Kings – No Dictators. Two free protest rights trainings tomorrow night:

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Register on Mobilize.

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This "Where Your Rights Differ" graphic effectively maps the concepts of public sidewalks and parks as 'Green Zones' using the high-contrast color scheme. The distinction between public sidewalks (low risk) and streets (high risk) is visually clear.

📍 WHERE YOU STAND:
• Rights are strongest in public sidewalks, streets, and parks.
• Dispersal Orders: If police order a dispersal, they MUST provide a clear exit path and a reasonable amount of time to comply before taking action. 🛣️
#NoKings #ProtestRights

Denver mayor orders protection of protesters, ban on ICE from city property
#Denver #ICE #ProtestRights
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Protesting is a right—and so is your digital privacy. 🦋

Just because the police can take your cellphone if you get arrested mean they have an all-access pass to your life. ⚖️

The law draws a line in the sand at your data. #DigitalPrivacy #FirstAmendment #ProtestRights

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"Department of Justice prosecutors across the US have suffered a string of embarrassing defeats in their aggressive pursuit of criminal cases against people accused of “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers."

#ProtestRights #FirstAmendment #CivilRights #ICENews #ICE

The Secret of Missing and Mutilated Bodies of Women Protesters: Women’s Bodies as a Statement An opinion piece argues the state hides women protesters’ bodies to erase evidence—yet enforced disappearance deepens justice-seeking, from Kurdistan to all of Iran. The government trembles at women walking, singing, or even the slight movement of a few strands of hair. Today, it is hardly surprising that it is also afraid of their lifeless bodies. The systematic hiding of women’s bodies in recent months is not administrative disorder or a coincidental event, but a calculated and vile security strategy to suffocate the truth in the bud. When the regime abducts a woman’s body, keeps it in hidden morgues, or buries it in remote, unmarked graves, it is in fact confessing to a great historical fear: the fear that her grave will turn into a rallying point for a nation’s anger and a symbol of the collapse of an ideology. They know very well that the body of every protesting woman is a living and undeniable document of the brutality and torture inflicted on her; therefore, by making these bodies disappear, they desperately try to erase the “crime scene” from the city’s geography and from collective memory. This logic of erasure and suppression after death is rooted in a blood-soaked history that began in the very first years of this regime’s establishment. The terror of the “rebellious woman” has taken such deep root in the mentality of this structure that in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution and during the 1980s, the Islamic Republic carried out some of the most atrocious crimes of Iran’s contemporary history against women political prisoners. Relying on a shaky, anti-human, misogynistic interpretation, they would force young women who were not married—before execution—into coerced marriage to Revolutionary Guards so that, in their own logic, they would prevent them from going to heaven: a perverse rationale rooted in a patriarchal obsession with women’s sexual “purity,” where virginity is framed as spiritually privileged, and “marriage” is used as a legal cover to render sexual violence “lawful,” stripping the condemned woman of the very status the perpetrators claimed would grant her paradise. This systematic assault, justified under the name of “marriage,” was in fact the height of the vileness and desperation of a regime that sought to impose power over women by crushing their dignity and bodies, even in the final moments of their lives. This is the same outlook that appears today in shocking reports about dismemberment, removal of the uterus, and suspicious manipulations in forensic medicine—an effort to eliminate evidence that could reveal the horrifying dimensions of torture and systematic assaults. Kahrizak and the Machinery of Concealment A recent report by the Sociology Students’ Scientific Association has lifted the curtain on a horrifying reality in the Kahrizak forensic facility in Tehran and has lent weight to this claim. The presence of the bodies of at least 50 unidentified women protesters—whose identities have remained concealed even after weeks—shows the depth of the catastrophe and an all-out effort to keep the dimensions of repression silent. The observations recorded in this report include shocking cases that make every awakened conscience shudder: the presence of deep stitches on skulls and blood-soaked faces, making identification impossible, points to savage physical violence before death. Also, reports that some bodies in the morgue were naked raise unanswered questions about the behavior of the security forces. The lack of effort to identify these women is not an administrative failing, but a clear instance of psychological harassment of the families of the missing and systematic concealment to prevent the documentation of crimes. The Kahrizak catastrophe is only the tip of the iceberg, and the situation of morgues in smaller cities still remains under a veil of silence and ambiguity. These “enforced disappearances” are a tool of intimidation, but the regime makes a major error in its calculations: it does not know that the death of these women is not the end of the struggle, but the beginning of a new season of justice-seeking. This chain of deletion today continues with redoubled intensity inside the high walls of prisons as well—where women political prisoners are seen as the most dangerous enemies of the regime’s stability. But it is precisely at this point that the miracle of “justice-seeking” is born. Women and families who have lost their loved ones in the dungeons of detention centers or under torture, instead of retreating in the face of security threats, have turned into the main pillars of resistance. The regime tries, by stealing the body, to force the family into silence, isolation, and withdrawal, but justice-seeking mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers—standing behind closed prison doors and above hidden graves—break the silence. Justice-seeking in this geography is no longer a simple legal demand; it is a full-fledged political struggle. Every mother who raises her child’s photo, and every family that refuses to receive a tampered body or accept a secret burial, is in fact delivering a finishing shot to the regime’s strategy of “denial.” The government imagines that by mutilating bodies or hiding them it has erased the trace of the crime, but the reality is that these women—even in the absence of their bodies—shake the pillars of power. The women of Iran not only do not fear these cruelties, but by witnessing the scale of the government’s fear, they have recognized the legitimacy and strength of their path. Every hidden grave, every abducted body, and every concealed name becomes a seed that sprouts throughout this land. A regime whose history is intertwined with erasure and denial is so terrified of the symbolic power of women that it even refuses to hand over a lifeless body to its family’s embrace; because it knows that in this land, every grave of a woman unjustly killed is a flag that will never be lowered. This unbreakable bond between spilled blood and the cry for justice is a root that will one day shatter every ceiling of despotism. Documenting these events is a vital step for future justice-seeking and for preventing the forgetting of names whose only “crime” was crying out for freedom and the pursuit of rights. The truth may be imprisoned for a time in dark morgues, but it will never be buried. Kurdistan and the Roots of “Woman, Life, Freedom” But this chain of erasure collides, at one point, with the hard rock of resistance. Here, one must speak of Kurdistan; a land that is not only a geography, but the cradle and primary origin of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The slogan that rose from the heart of Kurdistan and swept across the world is rooted in decades of Kurdish women’s steadfastness. The fighting women of Kurdistan, who have always endured compounded oppression arising from national, gender, and class discrimination, are today the vanguard of a struggle that has completely destroyed the regime’s legitimacy. In Kurdistan, the ruling power has employed the greatest brutality in hiding bodies, creating unmarked graves, and intimidating families—because it knows that the deepest tremor to its rule has begun from this very source of awakening. Today, the women of Kurdistan and all across Iran, by standing behind closed prison doors and above hidden graves, have broken the silence. Justice-seeking in this geography is no longer a simple legal demand; it is a full-fledged political struggle. The regime imagines that by mutilating bodies or abducting them it has erased the trace of the crime, but the reality is that these women—even in the absence of their bodies—shake the pillars of power. Every hidden grave in Kurdistan and every concealed name in Kahrizak and anywhere else becomes a seed that sprouts throughout this land. A regime that ties its survival to the destruction and denial of women does not realize that this bond between blood spilled in Kurdistan and the cry for justice across Iran is a root that will one day shatter every ceiling of despotism and dictatorship. The truth may be imprisoned for a time in dark morgues, but it will never be buried; because this movement comes from an origin that has learned how to rise again from its own ashes.

The Secret of Missing and Mutilated Bodies of Women Protesters: Women’s Bodies as a Statement #JusticeForWomen #ProtestRights

United States and Canada Overview: February 2026 Demonstrations surged in the US in January, triggered by the US bombing of Venezuela, immigration enforcement officers killing two people in Minnesota, and the anniversary of Trump’s second inaugurati...

In January 2026, ACLED reported 2,301 U.S. demonstrations, a 264% increase due to ICE-related killings in Minnesota, resulting in ten times more confrontations with law enforcement. #ICE #DHS #OperationMetroSurge #ImmigrationEnforcement #DomesticTerrorism #ProtestRights #ACLED #Minnesota

Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.

DOJ used NSPM-7 authority to operate a secret domestic terrorist organization list, applying internal designation authority without publicly disclosed criteria or independent oversight. #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #NSPM7 #CivilLiberties #ProtestRights #Indivisible #50501Movement #TheIntercept

Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7.

DOJ uses NSPM-7 authority to operate a secret domestic terrorist organization list, applying internal designation authority without publicly disclosed criteria or independent oversight. #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #NSPM7 #CivilLiberties #ProtestRights #TheIntercept

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The legacy parties, aka the duopoly, are afraid of protest power & people power.
Bring it on #GreensAustralia. Get these draconian anti-protest laws repealed.

Sign the Greens petition: Protect the Right to Protest
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#ProtestRights
#FreeGaza
#AUSPol

Cowardice dressed up as authority on Sydney’s streets The violence surrounding protests against the visit of Israel’s president was not an accident of crowd control. It reflects a deeper political failure – where authority suppresses dissent rather than confronting uncomfortable truths about Gaza, protest rights and democratic responsibility.

Violence at Sydney protests was not about public safety – it was about power avoiding uncomfortable truths about Gaza, dissent and democratic rights, Stuart Rees writes.
#PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #ProtestRights #Democracy

After leaving a protest, a 17-year-old is pulled from his car and accused of reaching for a gun. Officers find nothing. The video is sparking outrage and renewed calls for accountability.


#BreakingNews #PoliceAccountability #CivilRights #Justice #ProtestRights #ICE

A black poster with a large yellow headline that reads “KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS” and six numbered points in white text. The bottom left has a small “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” graphic, and the bottom right has a red “ACLU” logo. KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS 1. You don’t need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don’t need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you’re not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. 2. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. 3. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. 4. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you’re free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. 5. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don’t sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. 6. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement officer at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.

Know your protest rights.

#Protest #ProtestRights #AbolishICE #Lynnwood #ShohomishCounty #Washington #ICE

Fox News linking peaceful protests to unrelated tragedies to discredit dissent. A classic playbook. History shows this erodes public trust & stifles vital conversations. #MediaBias #ProtestRights

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When peaceful protest is allowed to work, democracy works Melbourne’s mass protest against the visit of Israel President Isaac Herzog showed how large, diverse crowds can assemble peacefully when police exercise restraint and common sense. Sydney’s response points to a deeper failure of judgment about protest, power and democracy.

Melbourne and Sydney protests against the visit of Isaac Herzog showed how differently protest can unfold under different political decisions. Editor Catriona Jackson on power, protest, and democratic inconsistency. #PearlsAndIrritations #auspol #Democracy #ProtestRights

Australian police defend 'necessary force' against protestors, yet videos show officers punching and dragging. When is dissent considered 'disruption'? #Australia #ProtestRights

Read more: https://piaz.news/article/order-vs-dissent

A black poster with a large yellow headline that reads “KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS” and six numbered points in white text. The bottom left has a small “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” graphic, and the bottom right has a red “ACLU” logo. KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS 1. You don’t need a permit to protest in response to breaking news and you don’t need a permit to march in the streets or along sidewalks, as long as you’re not obstructing traffic or access to buildings. 2. When you are lawfully present in any public space, you have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including federal buildings and the police. 3. If you believe your rights have been violated, when you can, write down everything you remember, get contact information for witnesses, and take photographs of any injuries. 4. If you get stopped by the police, ask if you’re free to go. If they say yes, calmly walk away. 5. If you get arrested, you have a right to ask why. Otherwise, say you wish to remain silent and ask for a lawyer immediately. Don’t sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present. 6. If you get stopped by a member of the military or any law enforcement officer at a protest, you have the right to remain silent or to tell them that you’ll only answer questions in the presence of an attorney — no matter your citizenship or immigration status.

Know your protest rights.

#Protest #ProtestRights #AbolishICE #Seattle #KingCounty #Washington #ICE

When geopolitical interests clash with civil liberties, 'incitement' becomes a convenient label. Sydney anti-Herzog protests policed differently than others. #ProtestRights

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