As residents of Baltimore and concerned citizens around the country expressed frustration and outrage over the death of Freddie Gray on April 19th, 2015, very few expressed themselves with such passion and clarity as Marcus (a resident of Washington DC) who we met one of the many Baltimore City Hall demonstrations. […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Agency refuses to acknowledge widespread outrage at role in burgeoning gas infrastructure On May 14, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in its monthly open meeting took up the issue of the electrical grid’s vulnerability to geomagnetic disturbances. But the government agency’s own vulnerability to public disturbance was front and center. […]
Why do we ignore all the other costs of doing business? Over the last two years there has been a push to raise the minimum wage as working class incomes continue to lag behind increases in the cost of living across the nation. Led by national organizations such as Fight […]
Washington, DC — When Maria Hamilton lost her son Dontre over a year ago to police brutality, she wondered what Mothers Day would be like without him. She would soon realize his loss would be a calling to rally mothers from around the country to waken the Nation to police […]
Moms are coming to Washington DC to tell the Obama Administration a few things: their children are the nation’s children and they don’t want to lose any more of their sons and daughters to police violence. Over 50 mothers who have lost children to police violence plan to rally and […]
Opponents of fast track trade legislation temporarily disrupted a Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday morning. Congressional police warned them they would be ejected from the meeting if they persisted. More than half a dozen officers were at the meeting in anticipation of a disruption. Mackenzie McDonald-Wilkins, who held up a […]
40-Day Sentence for Protest Against Fracked Gas Export On April 20, two environmental activists appeared in Maryland District Court in Calvert County on charges related to a protest against the Cove Point LNG plant, in which they climbed up the arm of a crane and dropped a banner at a […]
At his first meeting as FERC Chairman, Commissioner Norman Bay gave the cold shoulder to demonstrators who repeatedly interrupted him to protest what they say is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s rubber stamp approach to regulation. “Oh my God, we have a situation here. The situation is not going away,” […]
Director James Spione premiered his documentary film “Silenced” at the Goethe Institute in Washington, DC on Saturday, April 10. “Silenced” features three prominent whistleblowers: former US Department of Justice attorney Jesselyn Radack, former NSA Senior Director Thomas Drake, and former CIA Analyst John Kiriakou, all who paid a heavy price […]
Last Saturday in North Charleston, South Carolina, a routine traffic stop ended in a police shooting, and the death of Walter Scott. Under normal circumstances there would have been nothing remarkable about Scott’s death. Local media spent the weekend recounting the incident as told by Officer Michael Slager via his attorney, who claimed […]
Sharia Law is defined as the moral code and religious law of a prophetic religion. It has long been the “boogeyman” trotted out by Christian conservatives as an example of everything that America should fight against because it is a barbaric socialist theocracy. However, it would seem that Oklahoma is […]
Indiana became the most recent state to enact an expansion of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the state level. In many instances, the reasoning behind such state legislation is rooted in concern for religious freedom of its diverse communities. In Pennsylvania, for example, it ensures that members of […]