In preparation for hosting the World Cup, the Brazilian government spent the outrageous amount of $10 billion and displaced as many as 250,000 people–evicting the poorest from their homes and sweeping up homeless from the streets. Since the World Cup started, thousands have protested lavishing public resources on a sports […]
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The future of the Internet is being considered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). You have until July 15th to submit comments. On July 1, people who support protecting Internet equality–equal access for everyone–without wealthy corporations being able to buy better service than the rest of us, came together to […]
John Zangas of DC Media Group talks about the wide range of issues our media collective has been covering–from Cove Point and fracking, the war in Iraq, World Cup protests in Brazil to the pending release from jail of Occupy activist Cecily McMillan. John emphasizes the importance of what happens […]
In Cecily McMillan’s arrest in Zuccotti park, the New York prosecutor’s office found an outlet for its fury at Occupy Wall Street. The District Attorney seized the opportunity and held onto it like a dog with a bone. It would be the height of absurdity to charge with assault a […]
Video @BmoreBloc Baltimore Police Chief Batts has taken up the task of swaying public opinion of the city’s law enforcement. This past Wednesday on June 25th, Chief Batts along with his top brass participated in a City Hall public hearing on law enforcement practices. This comes after several years of community activism […]
A little-known regulatory agency has been the site of daily protests this week against the environmental costs and health and safety hazards associated with exporting natural gas. Roughly twenty people have been picketing every day this week outside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the agency in charge of approving […]
Washington, DC-area Starbucks employee Sam Dukore put a few tough questions to Howard Schultz, the corporate CEO, when he came to town promoting a new benefit that Starbucks is offering its employees: tuition reimbursement for online college classes. *See below: Starbucks “scholarship” program not what it seems* Dukore, who makes […]
Journalists Tim Eastman, Matt Hopard and Shay Horse are covering the World Cup 2014 protests in Brazil. We’ll be continuously updating this post with more photos and reports. Follow on Twitter: @TimBEastman @StopMotionSolo @HuntedHorse To support Matt Hopard’s work (StopMotionsolo), send a paypal donation to stopmotionsolo@gmail.com To support Tim’s and […]
Hundreds filled the auditorium of Patuxent High School in Lusby, Maryland on May 31, eager to tell two representatives from the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission (FERC) how they feel about the agency permitting a plant to export natural gas. In a marathon hearing lasting more than six hours, 150 people […]
Mayor Susumu Inamine of Nago City, Okinawa, an Island south of Japan, made a direct appeal to the US government to back off on plans to build a military air base at Henoko on the island coast, saying Okinawans had been “enduring a heavy burden.” He visited New York and […]
New York On May 24th, more than 1,600 people participated in a global protest against Monsanto in New York City. People gathered in Union Square, many dressed as bees and carrying homemade signs. Video of comedian Lee Camp at Union Square: We’re in the middle of a drop-down, drag-out bloody […]
Maryland residents took their doubts about the integrity of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission review of a major industrial project to their U.S. Senators today. They believe FERC came up short with respect to the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that the agency released last week for the Cove Point project, […]