Artist Steve Tamayo, a Native American of the Sicangu tribe, painted life into a tipi on the National Mall over three days. The tipi will be given to the National Museum of the American Indian in a ceremony on Saturday, April 26th. Tamayo described the tipi as an embodiment of […]
Sunset is the most magical time to capture the Cowboy Indian Alliance encampment on the National Mall. Seven tipis and a covered wagon will be there until Sunday as part of the weeklong “Reject and Protect” demonstration. Ranchers and tribal communities from Nebraska and the Dakotas are protesting the proposed […]
The Cowboy Indian Alliance marked the first day of the “Reject and Protect” encampment on the National Mall today with prayer ceremonies and offerings to each other, the Earth and its people. With prayer, songs and burning sage, Native Americans dressed in full tribal regalia along with ranchers and farmers […]
By John Zangas and Anne Meador Set-up of the campsite by the Cowboy Indian Alliance for a week-long protest against the Keystone XL pipeline began on the National Mall in Washington, DC today. “Reject and Protect” officially begins tomorrow with an opening ceremony at the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 11am. […]
By Anne Meador and John Zangas On Earth Day, April 22, ranchers and members of native communities along the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline will arrive in Washington, DC to reject the pipeline and protect their land. The coalition, called the Cowboy Indian Alliance, will set up an […]
CODEPINK Women for Peace and the Maryland Light Brigade held light panels at the White House Thursday night, spelling out #STOPSPYING while hundreds of tourists watched. They were demonstrating against NSA spying on U.S. citizens and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funded fusion centers across the country. Edward Snowden exposed […]
Manufacturers of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also known as drones, visited members of Congress today on Capitol Hill. Corporate members of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) put on a drone expo for representatives from the House Congressional Unmanned Systems Caucus. Protestors from CODEPINK were on hand to greet […]
In spite of raw and rainy weather, several hundred activists participated in Wave of Action events last weekend in New York. April 4 kicked off a three-month period of heightened activism, which Wave of Action’s website describes as “people throughout the world…protesting corruption, rallying around solutions and taking part in […]
U.S. Trade Representative Mike Froman needs a fast track bill to get some important free trade agreements to the President’s desk for signature. But you wouldn’t necessarily know it after he testified about the administration’s trade policy agenda at a House Committee hearing on Thursday. “Our focus is on the […]
Nearly a hundred people associated with labor advocacy groups Working Families of DC and Our DC rallied at Union Station, then marched to the U.S. Capitol on March 27 in support of living wages for struggling families in the District. They demanded that Mayor Vincent Gray approve a living wage […]
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to death on March 24 for killing a police officer. Today protestors from CODEPINK took their objections to the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC: “The trial was clearly a sham and your government, which has jailed over 16,000 […]
by John Zangas A group of activists concerned with the continuing economic struggle of Americans held a sidewalk “conference” in front of Federal Reserve Board headquarters in Washington, DC on March 21 and 22. Their conference, called “Fed Up: The Peoples First Conference on Monetary Reform,” coincided with a European […]