About Eras
Abolitionism & the Slave Power (1850–1861)
The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
The First Red Scare (1917–1920)
World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
McCarthyism (1947–1957)
COINTELPRO (1956–1971)
The Vietnam War Era (1964–1975)
The American Indian Movement & Wounded Knee (1973–1977)
The Reagan Era (1981–1989)
The Anti-Globalization Movement (1999–2001)
The War on Terror (2001–)
The Green Scare (2005–2010)
Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
Ferguson & the Movement for Black Lives (2014–2016)
Standing Rock & the #NoDAPL Water Protectors (2016–2017)
J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
The Stop Cop City Era (2022–)
The Trump-Era Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity (2024–)
Civil Rights & Black Power
About Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
The Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest (2011)
Cecily McMillan (2012–2014)
The NATO 3 (2012–2014)
The Cleveland 4 (2012)
OCCUPY WALL STREET (2011–2012)
The occupation of Zuccotti Park in September 2011 spread to hundreds of cities and produced roughly 8,000 arrests within a year. The NATO 3 were tried in Chicago under Illinois's never-before-used state terrorism statute — acquitted of terrorism but convicted of lesser charges; Cecily McMillan was imprisoned over an alleged assault on the officer who had grabbed her; and Pacific Northwest grand-jury resisters Leah-Lynn Plante, Matt Duran, and Katherine 'KteeO' Olejnik were jailed for refusing to testify about fellow activists.