WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2025) – This morning, Greenpeace USA campaigners marked the first 100 days of this administration’s second term by unfurling a powerful banner reading “We the People: Preserve, Protect, Defend” in front of the U.S. Constitution display at the National Archives, launching the organization’s new #TimeToResist global campaign.
Photos from the DC bannering can be found here.
This comes after 100 days of chaos and lawlessness, escalating threats to democracy, climate action, and civil rights – led by billionaire oligarchs and corporate bullies who are using money and insider relationships in Washington to try to silence dissent. Greenpeace USA’s campaign is a bold defense, not just of the planet, but the foundational freedoms that protect it.
Dr. Folabi Olagbaju, Democracy Campaign Director, Greenpeace USA, said: “Greenpeace’s mission has always been to preserve, protect, and defend our just green world and today, that means defending the very document that makes this critical advocacy work possible. We the People is a phrase that belongs to all of us… it is not owned by corporations, or billionaires, or politicians. As the constitutional rights to free speech and due process come under attack on university campuses, in major law firms, and even inside legacy journalism institutions, Greenpeace USA is making clear that our fight is not just about defending the environment and safeguarding climate: it’s about defending democracy itself.
“We are here to remind this administration, and the nation, that constitutional rights belong to the people. Free speech, protest, and dissent are not negotiable. They are the foundation of any livable future, and we will resist any effort to erase them.”
With today’s action, Greenpeace USA declares: the next 100 days are ours — a time for the people to restore hope, to organize, to rise up, and to defy the suppression of dissent and justice.
The Time to Resist campaign will mobilize people across the United States and around the world to stand together, protect the right to dissent, and safeguard the future before it’s too late.Read more and see the global petition here.
Contact: Madison Carter, Greenpeace USA Senior Communications Specialist, [email protected]
Greenpeace USA is part of a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country’s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people first. Learn more at www.greenpeace.org/usa.
