Category Archives: Local Protest/Rally

Today's City-Wide End the Violence Rally was necessary... It was a call to action and a display that regardless of age, race, side of town or station in life; collectively we are committed to ending…

In the wake of steadily increasing violence in our city, an event has been created at the request of a recent shooting victim's family. We will gather at the Indiana State House and march in…

In Indiana, Republican legislators have sparked outrage after introducing a bill that would empower police to remove protesters blocking traffic using "any means necessary." Organizers and activists opposed to the legislation have dubbed it the…

DONT SLEEP partnered with Indy 10 and community members and allies to take to the streets of Indianapolis after the extrajudicial murders of Terence Crutcher, Tyre King and Keith Scott.   [gallery ids="699,700,701,702,703,704,705,706,707,708"]

On Sunday, August 22, 2016; we gathered together to listen, to hear, to affirm and to remember the women we've lost to incidents of police brutality. To incidents of violence led by misogyny and Transphobia.…

In the interest of lifting our combined voices to protest the unjust murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter organizations; DONT SLEEP and Indy10 Black lives Matter will join forces with local…

On the evening of June 17, 2015, a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The church is one of the United States' oldest black…

LGBT Hoosiers & Allies March on NCAA "Final 4" For Equal RightsLGBTs and supporters marched on the NCAA "final 4" and the state capitol building in Indianapolis yesterday to demand full repeal of the anti-LGTQ…