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 The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
The Federal Dragnet (2020–2021)
Rahman & Mattis (2020–2022)
The Minneapolis Arson Sentences (2020–2022)
Portland: Operation Diligent Valor (2020)
THE GEORGE FLOYD UPRISING (2020)
The summer-2020 Black Lives Matter protests following the police murder of George Floyd produced hundreds of state and federal prosecutions for arson, riot, civil disorder, and federal explosives offenses. Many defendants are still serving multi-year sentences (José Felan, Margaret Channon, Montez Lee, David Elmakayes, Brandon Wolfe, Matthew White, Ellie Brett).