Washington, DC — The AFL-CIO, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) joined in a picket inside the Senate Hart Building Wednesday over the longest-ever government shutdown that they are blaming on the Trump administration. Hundreds of AFL-CIO and IAM […]
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Washington, DC — The founders of the historic Women’s March stood together on stage in Freedom Plaza on January 19 urging the nation to embrace diversity, equality, and intersectionality for women everywhere. The march was part of a 300-city “Woman’s Wave” involving hundreds of thousands of women, femmes and allies […]
Washington, DC — Peace activists are calling for the U.S. government to call off plans for a massive military construction project on the Japanese island of Okinawa. On January 7, a fourth generation Okinawan-American and local peace groups staged a demonstration and delivered a petition with 190,000 signatures to the […]
A Maryland administrative board has denied Columbia Gas a necessary permit for it to build a controversial gas pipeline across the Potomac River. By a unanimous vote, the Maryland Board of Public Works rejected a right-of-way easement for the Eastern Panhandle Expansion, commonly known as the Potomac Pipeline. Without the […]
Washington, DC — Activists from several organizations flashed a light show on the Rayburn House Office Building on Saturday, December 22. The phrase “All I Want for Christmas Is a Green New Deal” was displayed with a high-powered projector in a green hue on the Congressional building for about five […]
Justice Is Our Love In Action Poetry by Stewart Acuff Art by Mitch Klein Justice Is Our Love in Action is very much a book for the moment, a time when the president rants and rages on Twitter, leaders wallow in corruption, our fellow citizens revel in hate and the […]
France has been rocked in recent weeks by nationwide protests. Demonstrators, wearing the high-visibility yellow vests that motorists are required by law to carry in their cars, have blocked roads, gas stations, tore down signs, tore up paving stones and set up barricades. The protests have been most visible in […]
Washington, DC—The release this fall of several new reports on the effects of climate change has given a new sense of urgency to the climate movement. Even though some say the reports may still be too conservative in their findings, scientists finally seem to be hitting the panic button, […]
On Thursday morning, I stepped into the Charlottesville courtroom of Judge Richard E. Moore and witnessed the first actual day of trial for James Alex Fields, Jr., the Ohio man who drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist counter-protesters at the white supremacist rally in August 2017. Fields […]
Hagerstown, Md. — To transport gas from the fracking wells in Pennsylvania and Ohio to the Eastern Panhandle, Columbia Gas, a subsidiary of TransCanada, needs to drill under the Potomac at Hancock, Md. But if things go wrong, it could mean disaster for the river and all who depend on […]
At the first public meeting since the announcement of the new Amazon HQ2 location in Crystal City, Arlington County Board members disclosed that it took a backseat to Virginia state government in negotiations to clench the deal with the online retail giant. The Board also said that Virginia limited the […]
Washington, DC — Thousands rallied in hundreds of cities across the country Thursday night after President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The mass mobilization was triggered by the Sessions’ firing and subsequent installation of Matt Whitaker as acting Attorney General, actions seen as attempts to undermine the investigation being […]