On Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the Organization for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart) and allied groups called attention to Walmart’s low wages and austere working conditions at the downtown Walmart in Washington, DC. It marked the fourth consecutive Black Friday activists organized against […]
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About a hundred people rallied at the White House on Saturday to denounce efforts by state governors and Congress to deny Syrian refugees sanctuary in the U.S. They held signs saying, “Refugees welcome here,” and invoked the inscription on the Statue of Liberty to express their support for allowing those […]
Director takes bullhorn to denounce trade agreement as “The Big Lie” Protesters against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) had just surrounded the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC on Monday night when filmmaker Michael Moore showed up to lend a hand. Moore was attending an event just around the […]
Three days of protests against a trade agreement recently negotiated among twelve Pacific-rim nations kicked off early Monday morning at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington, DC. Protesters restricted access to the building as the business day began, using banners as blockades, and obstructed traffic in the […]
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 […]
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson was among over 300 who met at the White House on Sunday, August 9, to embark on a bike ride around Washington, DC, exactly 70 years after the second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in World War II. The bike riders followed […]
Five people were arrested today at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in Washington, DC protesting the agency’s blanket approval of gas infrastructure projects. Nearly a hundred people blockaded the agency and for two hours held a meditation and silent vigil, hindering staff from entering the building most of the […]
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 […]
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. […]