Washington, DC — When Maria Hamilton lost her son Dontre over a year ago to police brutality, she wondered what Mothers Day would be like without him. She would soon realize his loss would be a calling to rally mothers from around the country to waken the Nation to police […]
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The future of the Internet is being considered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). You have until July 15th to submit comments. On July 1, people who support protecting Internet equality–equal access for everyone–without wealthy corporations being able to buy better service than the rest of us, came together to […]
John Zangas of DC Media Group talks about the wide range of issues our media collective has been covering–from Cove Point and fracking, the war in Iraq, World Cup protests in Brazil to the pending release from jail of Occupy activist Cecily McMillan. John emphasizes the importance of what happens […]
Washington, DC-area Starbucks employee Sam Dukore put a few tough questions to Howard Schultz, the corporate CEO, when he came to town promoting a new benefit that Starbucks is offering its employees: tuition reimbursement for online college classes. *See below: Starbucks “scholarship” program not what it seems* Dukore, who makes […]
On the anniversary of the first news story based on Edward Snowden NSA leaks, Fight for the Future and other Internet privacy advocates are taking matters into their own hands. Legislators have failed to own up to the illegality of the NSA programs which collect massive amounts of data on […]
FCC Commissioners held a public hearing on May 15 where they voted 3 to 2 to move ahead with rules which could put an end to Net neutrality. Outside the FCC building, protestors had been camped out for days to draw attention to the potential for big changes in who […]
Three members of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) were arrested at NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland when they obstructed a roadway outside the base’s gates and refused to leave. About twenty protestors in all staged a theatrical “die-in” and read the names of one hundred children they […]
The video below features Omar Soltan, the brother of Mohamed Soltan, a journalist, translator and aide to media organizations such as al-Jazeera. The Egyptian government jailed Soltan after the Muslim Brotherhood uprising in Egypt this past summer. Because he is the son of a well-known Muslim Brotherhood figure, he remains […]
Actor/activist Daryl Hannah stood in solidarity with the Cowboy Indian Alliance at Reject and Protect on April 26, 2014. Hannah has been dedicated to stopping the Keystone XL pipeline, getting arrested at several civil disobedience actions. In this interview she explains why blocking the tar sands pipeline is vital. “Our […]
Three people were killed and four injured at a shopping mall in Columbia, MD when a shooter opened fire Saturday morning. The shooter was among the fatalities. Rob Brune interviews Columbia Mall employee Patti Lareau, who works at the kiosk directly across from the Zumiez skate shop where the shooting […]
Turkish Americans in Washington, DC rallied for a third time on Sunday, June 16 to show support for their countrymen protesting government repression in Istanbul. In the previous two days, hundreds of police raided Gezi Park and Taksim Square, firing tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets, sending the people […]
“I’m here to celebrate an American hero, and a hero of the first amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of thought. And Bradley Manning has really stood for that all his life. In a way he’s been an outlier for a long time and I admire him […]