Environmentalists celebrated a major victory over Big Oil on Friday night at the White House after President Obama officially announced he would not approve the Northern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. The 1,700-mile TransCanada project triggered a seven-year battle joined by scores of environmental groups who worked to defeat […]
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“Remember, remember the Fifth of November.” For the fifth consecutive year in Washington, DC, youth of the hacktivist group Anonymous Legion did remember the Fifth of November, otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Day. They rallied wearing masks at the Washington Monument, marched to the White House, then made a cross-town […]
Palestinians and Jews demonstrated with supporters at the White House on Saturday, decrying escalating violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories. They called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, claiming it funds military equipment used in the violent clashes and repression there. Palestinians and Jews […]
China Obtained Classified Information Thanks to Clinton’s Deliberate Dodge of Federal Government’s Multibillion Dollar Investment in Cybersecurity During the first democratic presidential debate on Tuesday in Las Vegas, Bernie Sanders essentially gave Hillary Clinton a golden ticket to the nomination. After watching Sanders be Clinton’s apologist for her biggest stumbling […]
On Saturday, October 10, the Million Man March converged on Washington, DC, on the 20th anniversary of the original March, with a demand for “Justice or Else.” Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, called on people of color to seize their destiny through self-empowerment and a new-found […]
Mark “Bear” Parker, a mainstay of Occupy DC, passed away in McPherson Square on August 14. Police came around midnight to ask people who were sleeping in the park to leave, but found him unresponsive. He had been sitting on a park bench near the site where the kitchen was […]
Washington, DC – Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists and supporters confronted a White Supremacy Southern Heritage group which rallied at Upper Senate Park next to the U.S. Capitol Saturday, September 5. The White Supremacist group displayed two dozen Confederate flags while BLM activists held signs reading “Smash Racism and […]
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson was among over 300 who met at the White House on Sunday, August 9, to embark on a bike ride around Washington, DC, exactly 70 years after the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in World War II. The bike riders followed […]
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of Medicare, advocates for universal healthcare rallied at the Lincoln Memorial, saying that the private insurance industry is raising costs for millions of Americans while worsening the quality of care. Key speakers included Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Robert […]
On Tuesday, friends and acquaintances said goodbye to several recently departed Occupy DC activists during a memorial service held at Freedom Plaza. The friends honored in the memorial service were activists involved in the two Washington, DC encampments established during the Occupy movement, which took the country by storm during […]
Lusby, Maryland has never seen a civic action this big, according to local residents. Almost two hundred citizens and supporters mobilized on Saturday for a march to stop energy corporation Dominion Resources from converting Cove Point LNG into a liquefaction facility in the middle of a residential neighborhood. They walked […]
Hundreds rallied at the White House Saturday to protest corporate food giant Monsanto and its lobbying to keep Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labels off its products. They walked to Monsanto’s headquarters several blocks away, where they picketed against Monsanto, its products and pesticide use on corn, wheat and other agribusiness […]