Anthony, 47 years old, is friendly as he greets me in McPherson Square on Christmas. “What have you got for me?” he asks. His companion, “Chico,” is an obedient Pit Bull mix and looks up suspiciously as I go through my bag to find something for him to eat. Chico […]
John Zangas
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It’s dusk on Christmas Eve. A white van of Samaritans stops at the corner of Eye Street. On queue the men shuffle to its hatch and line up. She opens its side door at the curb. At McPherson the men linger late into the night, waiting for food, gloves, hats, and tonight’s menu: steamy […]
They occupy alleys and benches, the side doorways of office buildings and dead spaces behind dumpsters. They hobble along sidewalks, looking for change, food and clothing. “Can you spare quarters, dimes, nickels?” A homeless man asks each night near McPherson Park. Others linger near the metro entrance waiting for the van from Martha’s Table […]
Three years ago it would have been unthinkable for a Walmart employee to walk off the job, especially on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. They would have been administratively disciplined or worse, terminated. But that is what happened on November 28 at the H Street Walmart […]
Washington DC 27 November 2014 Thousands rallied in Washington, DC on Tuesday to support the Ferguson, Missouri community following a controversial grand jury decision not to indict White police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed Black youth. Civil rights advocates urged participants to get involved […]
Medea Benjamin is internationally renown for standing up for the oppressed and against violence and war. The co-founder of Code Pink, Women for Peace, is also no stranger to hostile situations involving law enforcement. But she never expected to be ordered off the National Mall or face arrest if she […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency responsible for approving interstate natural gas pipelines, compression stations and export terminals, saw more protests and arrests at its doorstep last week than ever before. Every morning, Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) climate activists tenaciously blocked all its entrances, parking garage, and 1st […]
The Great Climate March completed an eight month cross-country trek on Saturday, arriving at the White House. Enviros walked their last leg into Washington DC escorted by nearly 200 people. As they walked from Maryland into DC, the chanted the names of the 11 states they had crossed over 8 […]
They say that the longest journey begins with one step. The Great March for Climate Action took its first steps on March 1 in Los Angeles. By November 1, when the marchers arrive at the White House, they will have taken over 15 million steps. Thirty-four people started in Port of Wilmington […]
Almost a hundred people rallied at the Arlington, Virginia headquarters of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on September 4 to protest Dominion Resources’ relationship with the shady group. By law, Dominion holds a monopoly for power production in Virginia. ALEC partners member corporations such as Dominion with state legislators […]
Dozens of Peace Groups rallied outside the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday afternoon to deliver a list of demands to Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General. They cited specific changes needed to change police departments which they claim are targeting and profiling minorities. Their demands come in the wake of the […]
Palestinians, Jews and Christians rallied at the Department of State before marching to the White House on Sunday in protest of continuing Israeli attacks on Gaza. Their message to Israel: We want the attacks on Gaza to stop, with freedom and autonomy for Palestine. The dramatic procession was led by […]