Sixteen days into the Turkish uprising last June, just when things were getting really ugly in Taksim Square, Davide Martello managed to stop the tear gas and water cannons with a baby grand. An enormous crowd paused to listen to a marathon thirteen-hour concert, a brief halt in the conflict. […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
45 posts
Popcorn and hot chocolate were served at a movie screening at the home of President Obama’s nominee for head of Department of Homeland Security tonight in Washington, DC. CODEPINK: Women For Peace used the brick facade of Jeh Johnson’s house in Georgetown to show the documentary “Killer Drones and Secret […]
The remote location of CIA headquarters in Langley, VA keeps its facility as distant from the public eye as its activities. But one day every month for the last year, activists opposing the CIA’s program of “targeted killing” by drones have staked out the gates of the intelligence agency. Standing […]
As many as a thousand people participated in the Million Mask March in Washington, DC on Tuesday, November 5. Wearing Guy Fawkes masks, they gathered at the Washington Monument in mid-morning to march to the White House. The majority then headed to the U.S. Capitol while smaller groups broke off […]
People traveled from across the country to participate in the Stop Watching Us Rally, a protest against the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs. Sponsored by over one hundred organizations, the event drew participants from a broad political spectrum, including the Tea Party, the Libertarian Party and Occupy Wall Street. They delivered […]
A dozen federal workers occupied the steps of the Capitol for several hours today to protest the government shutdown, which sent them home from work without pay only hours before. Most aimed their ire at Congress, which failed to pass a budget resolution before the new fiscal year starting October […]
They might as well have dared them to do it. In the process of being renovated, the north side of the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office is covered in scaffolding. To reach the rooftop of the four-story building, you don’t even have to pass through its doors. All you have to […]
Part of a concerted effort to bring attention to the secretive negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the campaign Flush the TPP projected slogans–including “TPP Dismantles Democracy” and “TPP is a Corporate Coup”–onto the General Accountability Office building in Washington, DC. The campaign has organized several days of actions to interrupt […]
by Sam Jewler This article was originally published on DC Mic Check. Sam Jewler argues that DC workers need a living wage and the Large Retailer Accountability Act (LRAA) is the best and most available option for working toward that goal. DC City Council’s passing of the LRAA in August […]
For a few short hours, a familiar sight was missing from Lafayette Park. The White House Peace Vigil was temporarily dismantled by Park Police after the activist attending it abandoned it last night. The Peace Vigil has stared at the White House for 32 years, possibly the longest-running peace vigil […]
by Cool Revolution Activists from CODEPINK set up “camp” on an Independence Avenue sidewalk on Friday evening, just a few steps from the U.S. Capitol building. They had to clear out just a few hours later, but they’ll be back Saturday morning when their permit kicks in. After that, they […]
by John Zangas Three times in less than a week, anti-war protestors have flooded the sidewalks in front of the White House, demanding that President Obama step back from his plan to launch cruise missiles into Syria. Last Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators, both for and against the strikes, resisted police […]