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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Save the Internet” fight waged against telecoms for Net Neutrality was an epic David vs. Goliath battle. Grassroots Net activists with little funding and handmade signs were pitted against deep-pocket telecom Titans and legions of lobbyists skilled at smoothing Congressional corridors. Ultimately, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) debated and […]
Back in December, Charles Chandler was arrested for trespass in Southern Maryland while protesting a plant under conversion there to liquefy natural gas and load onto tankers for export to Asia. This facility on the Chesapeake Bay, called Cove Point LNG, could be a major driver of fracking on the […]
The Four Mile March, a coalition of civic groups, marched in over 30 major cities on Martin Luther King Day across the Nation to demand change in police department policies. They published ten main demands for changing police forces across the country and vowed to work within their communities to […]
On Saturday, January 10, groups opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline rallied at the White House to urge the administration to stop it after the new Republican-led Congress made getting the pipeline built its first issue of business. On Thursday, the Senate Energy Committee passed a bill to expedite the […]
The stories of homelessness told in this series are but a few of thousands unfolding every day in the Nation’s Capital. These photos depict people who told their personal struggles but there were many more who could not or would not tell their story. There are thousands more in the […]
Byron Hawkins, 49, is a stocky man with bearish hands, a gentle spirit but scars from his fiery past. He speaks of his early life with a certain fondness of “easy times.” He went to Pattison Elementary in southwest DC when he was a boy. His favorite subject was math because his family […]