Last Saturday in North Charleston, South Carolina, a routine traffic stop ended in a police shooting, and the death of Walter Scott. Under normal circumstances there would have been nothing remarkable about Scott’s death. Local media spent the weekend recounting the incident as told by Officer Michael Slager via his attorney, who claimed […]
Sharia Law is defined as the moral code and religious law of a prophetic religion. It has long been the “boogeyman” trotted out by Christian conservatives as an example of everything that America should fight against because it is a barbaric socialist theocracy. However, it would seem that Oklahoma is […]
Indiana became the most recent state to enact an expansion of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the state level. In many instances, the reasoning behind such state legislation is rooted in concern for religious freedom of its diverse communities. In Pennsylvania, for example, it ensures that members of […]
A breach of an electron pipe at a solar panel farm spilled millions of gallons of energy into the Potomac River near Seneca, MD overnight. High concentrations of electrons and photons were detected at the spill site and appeared to have flowed as far as Great Falls, Virginia by dawn. […]
Metropolitan Police are beefing up tactical forces to deal with a sudden spike in free range kids in the District. Police were first alerted to the influx of roamers by the DC Department of Human Services. Local residents began noticing a surge of children near playgrounds and parks after the […]
On Saturday, March 21, Cindy Sheehan’s Soap Box People’s Network rallied with Answer Coalition and over 50 groups in Washington, D.C. outside the White House to demand the U.S. end its campaign of “endless wars” in the Middle East and Africa. Sheehan joined a dozen speakers decrying U.S. involvement in […]
On March 20th over fifty groups will gather in Washington, DC to call for an end to U.S. involvement with the continuing conflict in the Middle East. “Spring Rising” will present teachings all day Friday, March 20th at University of DC Law Center. The next day, anti-war actions will mark […]
The “Save the Internet” fight waged against telecoms for Net Neutrality was an epic David vs. Goliath battle. Grassroots Net activists with little funding and handmade signs were pitted against deep-pocket telecom Titans and legions of lobbyists skilled at smoothing Congressional corridors. Ultimately, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) debated and […]
Back in December, Charles Chandler was arrested for trespass in Southern Maryland while protesting a plant under conversion there to liquefy natural gas and load onto tankers for export to Asia. This facility on the Chesapeake Bay, called Cove Point LNG, could be a major driver of fracking on the […]
Washington, D.C.-Zero Net kicked off a campaign on Saturday against the Obama administration plan to spend billions on nuclear weapons upgrades over the next decade. Organizers erected a 48-foot Intercontinental Ballistic Missile replica on the ellipse near the White House to dramatize dangers of the aging missiles, saying nuclear weapons are vestiges […]
The Four Mile March, a coalition of civic groups, marched in over 30 major cities on Martin Luther King Day across the Nation to demand change in police department policies. They published ten main demands for changing police forces across the country and vowed to work within their communities to […]
On Saturday, January 10, groups opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline rallied at the White House to urge the administration to stop it after the new Republican-led Congress made getting the pipeline built its first issue of business. On Thursday, the Senate Energy Committee passed a bill to expedite the […]