“Remember, remember the Fifth of November.” For the fifth consecutive year in Washington, DC, youth of the hacktivist group Anonymous Legion did remember the Fifth of November, otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Day. They rallied wearing masks at the Washington Monument, marched to the White House, then made a cross-town […]
Daring banner drop protests Bank of America’s investment in fracked gas export terminal As many as 74,000 football fans at a Carolina Panthers game witnessed two people rappel from the upper deck in the pouring rain. The “fracktivists” suspended themselves in front of the press box and unfurled a banner […]
Palestinians and Jews demonstrated with supporters at the White House on Saturday, decrying escalating violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Occupied Territories. They called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, claiming it funds military equipment used in the violent clashes and repression there. Palestinians and Jews […]
China Obtained Classified Information Thanks to Clinton’s Deliberate Dodge of Federal Government’s Multibillion Dollar Investment in Cybersecurity During the first democratic presidential debate on Tuesday in Las Vegas, Bernie Sanders essentially gave Hillary Clinton a golden ticket to the nomination. After watching Sanders be Clinton’s apologist for her biggest stumbling […]
On Saturday, October 10, the Million Man March converged on Washington, DC, on the 20th anniversary of the original March, with a demand for “Justice or Else.” Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, called on people of color to seize their destiny through self-empowerment and a new-found […]
You may have never heard of JLENS, but you have been paying for it for the last eighteen years. The $2.7 billion surveillance program, which was originally slated to be a fleet of blimps used to watch people and vehicles across America, is just the latest in a series of […]
Mark “Bear” Parker, a mainstay of Occupy DC, passed away in McPherson Square on August 14. Police came around midnight to ask people who were sleeping in the park to leave, but found him unresponsive. He had been sitting on a park bench near the site where the kitchen was […]
Vibrations from the fiddler’s bow ricochet off the hot concrete canyon walls of First Street near Union Station. About a dozen people lounge on sleeping bags and lawn chairs on the sidewalk under a blue awning, sipping salt water. They toss a few bucks into a pot for a wager […]
How the DNC Chair Has Sacrificed Her Party To Stay In Power This week, Debbie Wasserman Schultz continued her “scorched earth” campaign against the Democratic Party in an all-or-nothing bid to secure a Hillary Clinton presidency. While the Clinton machine continues to gain momentum, the Democratic National Committee has been left […]
The repercussions of climate disruption are still not being acknowledged fully, warned climatologist Dr. James Hansen, addressing an audience of Baby Boomer and Greatest Generation climate activists on September 9. “We’ve now got an emergency,” he told about 150 “elder activists” at Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, DC, who were […]
Washington, DC – Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement activists and supporters confronted a White Supremacy Southern Heritage group which rallied at Upper Senate Park next to the U.S. Capitol Saturday, September 5. The White Supremacist group displayed two dozen Confederate flags while BLM activists held signs reading “Smash Racism and […]
Following up on their promise to ensure that no 2016 presidential candidate should be able to run without a real plan on how black people will survive and thrive after their initial disruption of the Presidential Town Hall at Netroots, members of Black Lives Matter took aim at Hillary Clinton […]