Washington, DC – Peace activists, bands, music, art and community unity made a perfect recipe for a peace festival on Mothers Day weekend at the White House on Saturday. The theme was creating a society free of violence so families could thrive. Several hundred took part in the event hosted […]
John Zangas
254 posts
Washington, DC – A spectrum of workers’ rights groups rallied for the annual May Day March for labor on Sunday, May 1. They called on workers to organize with a new militancy and mobilize against global economic disadvantages posed by the growing power of corporate elites. They were also joined […]
Washington, DC — The number of arrests on the fifth day of civil disobedience protests known as Democracy Spring exceeded 800 on Friday. Youth and student was the fifth day of sit-ins outside the U.S. Capitol in a continuing series of the eight days of protests. Activists are confronting Congress […]
Washington, DC – Over 400 Democracy Spring protesters were arrested Monday at the U.S. Capitol on the first day of eight days of planned protests. It was a record number of arrests in one day for a protest there, according to U.S. Capitol police. At one point, police had to […]
Hundreds of marijuana activists held a “smoke-in” civil disobedience protest outside the White House on Saturday. The action drew a spectrum of advocacy groups calling on the Obama administration to legalize cannabis by descheduling it under the Controlled Substance Act (CSA). Marijuana is currently scheduled in Schedule I of the […]
Washington, DC – Members of Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s security detail assaulted several journalists at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC on Thursday. Erdogan was scheduled to give a speech about the state of Turkey in the early afternoon, when his security detail grabbed, struck, and forcibly removed journalists from […]
The Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney declined to charge four police officers with any wrongdoing in the shooting death of India Kager. At a press conference on Wednesday in Virginia Beach, Colin Stolle said, “I’ve come to the conclusion that the four Virginia Police Officers involved did not violate the law […]
The land of the free got a little smaller this week when cutters from Williams Partners Company began clear-cutting trees on the Zeffer-Holleran property, readying it for construction of the Constitution pipeline. Five acres of the property were condemned under eminent domain to build the natural gas pipeline. A dozen […]
Gina Best, the mother of India Kager, who was killed by Virginia Beach Police, delivered a petition to the Department of Justice on Thursday, to investigate her daughter’s killing. She was accompanied by Black Lives Matter activists, and demanded an “independent parallel investigation”. Six months after her daughter was killed […]
Clear-cutting of trees on a Pennsylvania family farm for the Constitution Pipeline was held off another day by successful negotiations between property owners and pipeline company representatives. The discussion was backed up by a large group of pipeline opponents, who stood ready to block the incursion of tree cutters. Dozens […]
The future of the longest-running peace protest in the U.S. recently came into question when its co-founder, Concepcion Picciotto, passed away on January 25. Picciotto was largely responsible for keeping the anti-nuclear vigil in front of the White House going since its beginning in August 1981. Long dreaded, her death […]
Washington, DC— Environmentalists demanded a federal agency use its power to bring about a “total shut down” of an aging gas storage facility near Los Angeles, claiming that a leak there is causing an ecological disaster of massive proportions. Gathering in front of the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday, they […]