Washington DC—Citizens turned out with their voices and signs in opposition to a U.S. blitzkrieg attack on Venezuela early morning Saturday. Grassroots groups rallied at the White House, at the Capitol, and in other locations in the DMV region. One such action was outside Tesla showroom in Arlington, the scene […]
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Washington, DC—”Not on Our Watch” is the message Veterans’ are sending the President. The two beige Humvees parked on the bricks looked like they belonged at a military base instead of outside Union Station as part of a wave of police forces occupying DC. No one knew that better than […]
Northern Virginia—Over 50 bridges staffed by thousands of volunteers on Saturday for a day-long action upstaged Trump’s birthday parade by raining messages unfit for a king. The Visibility Brigades targeted freeway overpasses in the nation’s capital focused on rejecting his Red Square styled military parade. Tanks, Humvees, and armored vehicles […]
Washington DC—Local grassroots groups have been rehearsing their measured response to Trump’s Stalinesque military ruck march slated for June 14. The military parade will tear up DC streets with Army tank squadrons, heavy military trucks, and Humvee vehicles, but the grassroots groups will be nowhere near it. Anyone traveling to […]
Washington, DC — Peace activists are calling for the U.S. government to call off plans for a massive military construction project on the Japanese island of Okinawa. On January 7, a fourth generation Okinawan-American and local peace groups staged a demonstration and delivered a petition with 190,000 signatures to the […]
Arlington, Va. — On Sunday afternoon, the Backbone Campaign, World Without War, the Raging Grannies, and other peace and environmental groups staged the spectacular banner hoist using a flotilla of linked kayakers in the lagoon just off the Potomac. About 50 kayakers took part in the event which was caught […]