Protest

When I rounded the corner from third street onto 27th Street the magnitude of the movement came into full view: easily 1,000 people were gathered on the sidewalk and in the park adjacent to the Yellowstone County Courthouse.

Q2 reports that about 450 people came to the Yellowstone County Courthouse lawn in Billings for a weekend rally that was organized in about a week to protest U.S. immigration policy. The Families Belong Together immigration rally was a call to re-unify parents and children that remain separated afte…

Q2 reports that students will rally in Billings this Saturday in response to the 17 victims killed in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day, as part of the “March for Our Lives” movement. It is expected that more than 800 similar events will take place nati…

Student organizers of a Montana march against gun violence are planning to relocate their March For Our Lives event after discovering that an event called March For Our Guns was scheduled for the same time in the state capitol. Students have reignited the national gun debate by calling for action in…

The startling acts of racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, sparked by efforts to remove statues and memorials to the Confederacy, resulted in a gathering of about 60 people on the lawn of the Yellowstone County Courthouse on Sunday, calling for peace, justice and inclusion...

A group of Laurel high school students planned a protest this morning in defense of their ousted principal.  KTVQ.com reports that the Laurel School District Board of Trustee voted against renewal of the contract of High School Principal Edward Norman on Monday...

Billings protesters gathered at the Wells Fargo Bank Building Thursday in support of those defiantly Standing up at Standing Rock North Dakota.  More than 50 people gathered in downtown Billings on Thursday afternoon to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and march through the downtown Wells Far…

A group of students at UM called Reinvest Montana created a protest to urge the UM Foundation to divest and cut ties with the fossil fuel industry.

A small group of nearly 50 people gathered on front of the Missoula County Courthouse steps on Saturday afternoon to hear Gina Satterfield from Helena declare that America's constitutional republic is 'under attack by our own government siding with the United Nations to infiltrate the US w…

Nearly 100 people crowded onto the sidewalk on Broadway in front of the Missoula County Courthouse to protest the effort to resettle Syrian refugees into western Montana.