r/protest

My name is Johnny Rivera, and I am a proud Puerto Rican /Colombian, gay activist and organizer who resides in West Hartford, Connecticut. After the death of Renee Nicole Good, I created The Perseus Project, a rapid response effort that documents 🧊 activity and protects our neighbors, based out of Enfield, Connecticut.

This year has been hectic! One protest after another. Recently, we had our success with the De-ICE Citizens Bank campaign in getting Citizens to stop financing CoreCivic and the GEO group- for profit prison corporations that run 🧊 detention centers. So many firsts! Organized my first protest with the campaign, and later my first vigils and even a march. We're doing our best over here to fight the good fight and make good trouble! Another first this year was a successful attempt at projection activism.

Using a 750-watt halogen projector lent to me and some training videos from my good friends u/backbonecampaign , I was able to project some of the images you see here! I'm obsessed with how projection activism has allowed me to connect to others (the response is always overwhelmingly positive) and amplify things I'm passionate about in a non-violent manner, while getting the public to think. Some of these projections have gone somewhat viral locally, and I am about to turn up the heat and bring you some more projections throughout Connecticut and maybe beyond!

I am currently raising $2k to buy my own set up and hopefully something to give back to the Backbone campaign for their help, since they are able to do what they do off such donations. We at the Perseus Project have decided to use our existing Gofundme and any excess funds will go towards fighting fascism and keeping our neighbors safe. I encourage you to check out the description.

No donation is too small,and if you can't contribute, please repost and share this reel to your story. Link in bio or visit gofundme.com/u/perseusproject

Most grateful~ 🙏 #Perseus

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07/04/2026 Broadview, IL

An ICE agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach outside the ICE detention facility this afternoon.

A few dozen protesters and community members had gathered in the designated protest area for a weekly demonstration opposing ongoing federal immigration operations across the Chicagoland area. Participants were chanting and holding signs when an unmarked vehicle exited the facility.

An ICE agent then pulled the vehicle alongside the protest area, rolled down the window, fired the pepper ball launcher, and immediately drove away. The protester who was struck received first aid from volunteers at the scene before seeking further treatment at the hospital.

Based on witness accounts, the use of force appeared to be unprovoked. Witnesses said there was no interaction between the targeted protester and the ICE agent before the shot was fired.

Both houses of Congress are now on recess through the end of the month. This long August break is intended to give them a chance to campaign for reelection, so in theory they should be a little more accessible to us in the next few weeks. We’re going to take this moment to show up on their doorsteps.

The immigrant community in Maine and their allies have been protesting daily since ICE agent David Brouillette murdered Johan Sebastián Guerrero in Biddeford on July 13th. Tomorrow, they’ll be holding an action at Susan Collins’ Biddeford office, calling out her making it all possible by voting for $70 billion in ICE funding. They’re asking us to do the same, hitting the streets in every district where members of Congress voted to expand ICE - demanding full and independent investigations into ICE killings, protection of the witnesses, an end to local collaboration with ICE, congressional use of their oversight authority, reallocating deportation funds to SNAP and Medicaid and a path to citizenship. 🪧 Let’s find a Care Not Cruelty action to attend near us here. 🪧

JUSTICE FOR THEM ALL

Meanwhile, our leaders still aren’t hearing us as we push back against the explosion of hyperscale data centers and the unrestrained creep of AI and surveillance tech. Trump is trying to end-run local opposition by letting them build on federal land now. Clearly we’re going to need to get louder. A coalition including Food & Water Watch, the Athena Coalition, Make the Road and the People’s Action Institute is using this recess to deliver letters and hold events at congressional offices and other key locations, encouraging our electeds to support Bernie Sanders and AOC’s federal data center moratorium bill and reject proposed projects locally – a Dump Big Tech Week of Action. 🪧 We can join them at these rallies near us here. 🪧

PEOPLE OVER BILLIONAIRE

If you can go, please do so!! We need them to listen!