Protests against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission heated up as more than 80 activists blocked the doors and streets in front of and behind the agency, delaying employees from entering the building for a few hours. They also blockaded North Capitol St. directly behind the agency by erecting an 18-foot […]
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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 […]
On day two of a series of protests called “FERCus,” activists played a cat-and-mouse game with police, starting out early in the morning at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, proceeding to the U.S. Department of the Interior and then returning to FERC by midday. They began with an early morning […]
About 30 activists from as far away as New Mexico rallied today in the first of a series of protests at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC, they say, harms thousands of people through the pipelines and gas infrastructure projects it approves. Carrying signs and banners, they picketed FERC headquarters. […]
Protest organizers say fracking wouldn’t happen without FERC Several days of protests are about to kick off in Washington, DC in response to the increasing toll which hydraulic fracking is taking on communities in the United States and the global climate. A coalition group called Beyond Extreme Energy has planned […]
One can not learn from the history of police brutality unless it is viewed as a continuing cycle that repeats itself in cities like Baltimore. In this interview, Renee Washington shares with us the brutal details of the death of her fiancee Joseph Wilbon while in police custody in Baltimore fifteen years ago. There […]
The Baltimore Curfew Highlighted A Racial Divide Between How Police Dealt With White and Black Protesters While many of the demonstrators in Baltimore questioned the legality of the Mayor Rawlings-Blake imposed curfew (which began on April 28th), tensions came to a climax on Saturday May 2nd with a city wide action to […]
Harold Perry lives directly across the street from the location where members of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) first detained Freddie Gray. On April 12th, 2015 Mr. Perry observed the entire situation unfold. While Harold is legally blind, his hearing and memory of the violent way the BPD apprehended and seemingly mishandled Freddie […]
As residents of Baltimore and concerned citizens around the country expressed frustration and outrage over the death of Freddie Gray on April 19th, 2015, very few expressed themselves with such passion and clarity as Marcus (a resident of Washington DC) who we met one of the many Baltimore City Hall demonstrations. […]
Agency refuses to acknowledge widespread outrage at role in burgeoning gas infrastructure On May 14, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in its monthly open meeting took up the issue of the electrical grid’s vulnerability to geomagnetic disturbances. But the government agency’s own vulnerability to public disturbance was front and center. […]
Washington, DC — When Maria Hamilton lost her son Dontre over a year ago to police brutality, she wondered what Mothers Day would be like without him. She would soon realize his loss would be a calling to rally mothers from around the country to waken the Nation to police […]
Moms are coming to Washington DC to tell the Obama Administration a few things: their children are the nation’s children and they don’t want to lose any more of their sons and daughters to police violence. Over 50 mothers who have lost children to police violence plan to rally and […]