Protests and Activism

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Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests

Meredith Nierman

People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.

Demonstrators outside The Connecticut State Capitol chant during a No Kings protest that event organizers said an estimated 7000 people attended June 14th 2025.

Connecticut Public

Thousands expected across CT for first 'No Kings' protests since federal shutdown

Chris Polansky

One organizer says joy will take center stage at the rallies, which are about “community and solidarity and unity.”

October 06, 2025 - Hartford, Ct. - Immigrant rights advocates, including Edgar Abrego (above) gathered outside The Capitol after marching from the Abraham A. Ribicoff United States Federal Building and Court House. The protestors were demanding that Governor Lamont and state legislators call a special session and protect immigrant community members from federal immigration enforcement's harsh measures. (Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public)

Connecticut Public

CT activist released by ICE, colleague says at Capitol rally for immigrant protections

Chris Polansky

Gov. Lamont did not commit to a special session, after demonstrators demanded one aimed at strengthening protections for immigrant communities.

Katherine Hinds holds up some of the signs she has used to protest that she now stores down in her basement on September 10, 2025. A local woman named Katherine Hinds has been arrested for leading anti-Trump demonstrations on highway overpasses around New Haven, Connecticut over the last several months. She's charged with misdemeanor counts of breach of peace and trespassing, and with violating a state law that prohibits putting up signs that interfere with traffic around highways and bridges. Hinds has been organizing the local chapter of a national group that orchestrates these high-visibility public demonstrations, known as Visibility Brigades.

Connecticut Public

Connecticut residents face pushback from state police for highway overpass protests

Maysoon Khan

Protestors have been cited – and in one case, arrested – this year while speaking out against the Trump administration, prompting a federal lawsuit.

Protesters take part in a "stand out" organized by Indivisible.org on September 19, 2025. They are trying to reach the large crowds on the way to the Big E agricultural fair.

NEPM

Pro-democracy protesters inhale traffic fumes to reach big crowds at Big E

Karen Brown

A few dozen people along the main road in West Springfield, Mass., carried signs defending free speech and the constitution. They're hoping for higher turnout next weekend.

People protesting ICE detainee flights in New Hampshire stood outside the Pease Development Authority's meeting Sept. 16, 2025 in Portsmouth, NH. Since July, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has used the airport at Pease to transport detainees across the country.

NHPR

Pease leadership says hands are tied over ICE flights; activists accuse agency of ‘complicity’

Lau Guzmán

The Pease Development Authority released a memorandum Tuesday outlining the legal reasons for why it believes it must allow ICE to continue operating deportation-related flights out of Portsmouth International Airport.

Eric Maroney is a community college professor with the American Federation of Teachers and a trans man. He highlighted the political playbook of shunting responsibility for real difficulties by blaming trans community. "We must reject the specter of the transgender boogeyman and the scapegoating of trans youth,” he said.

Connecticut Public

Protesters rally against Yale New Haven Health's decision to end gender-affirming care for minors

Eddy Martinez

Protesters took to the New Haven Green Thursday night to protest against Yale New Haven Health’s recent decision to end medication treatments as part of its gender-affirming care services for people under the age of 19.

This year's Juneteenth Freedom Walk was hosted by the The Seacoast African American Cultural Center, Green Acre Baha’i Center of Learning, and Seacoast NAACP.

NHPR

Photos: On the Seacoast, Juneteenth is a day of celebration and protest

Annmarie Timmins

A freedom walk across the Piscataqua River drew dozens of marchers who marked the end of slavery in the U.S. nearly 160 years ago, and shared concerns about current attacks on diversity.

Protestors in Hyannis on June 14, 2025, during the "No Kings" rally.

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Thousands rally against Trump policies in one of Cape Cod’s largest demonstrations

John Basile

In what will rank as one of the largest political demonstrations ever on Cape Cod, about 2,000 people turned out in Hyannis on Saturday afternoon, June 14, to demonstrate against the Trump administration.

A photo of people holding up signs shaped like headstones and reading things like "Suffocated under all the lies" and "!dying! trans rights + services gone" and "bled out and died during miscarriage"

Vermont Public

Thousands in Vermont turn out to protest Trump policies

Elodie Reed

Midway through the event on Saturday, the farmworker advocacy organization Migrant Justice announced that Border Patrol had arrested and detained a family in Franklin County.