DC Residents want National Guard Troops out of their city. Photo: J. Zangas/DCMG Washington DC—On Saturday afternoon DC residents rallied in opposition to street patrols of armed National Guard Soldiers. Organized by the Party of Socialism and Liberation, multiple speakers told of the negative effects from the deployment of […]
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Washington DC—They rode up late at night along the silent driveway to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Stopping just long enough to attach a few cables and turn on their projector, they beamed a light show from a car window. Security was caught totally flat-footed. The […]
Washington DC—It was nine years ago on August 12, that dozens of supremacist, Alt-Right, neo-nazi, klansmen, and nationalist groups rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia against a plan to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from downtown Lee Park. Organized by Jason Kessler, the ‘Unite the Right’ rally was […]
Washington DC—Third Act-DMV turned its projector lights onto the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH) late at night on Wednesday to highlight pressure to remove an history exhibit about tumultuous periods of the United States. The display focuses on the nation’s factual history of indigenous people, immigrants, enslaved people, […]
Washington DC—If the last 18 months have taught us anything about the United States, it feels much more divided than in living memory. There are obvious signs that this country’s democratic experiment is melting in its armored checks and balances. Its machinery is grinding and sounds like it’s breaking apart. […]
Washington DC—A cheering team calling itself the “Team Algae” put on green costumes and brought their green signs, snark, jokes, and plenty of trolling to the edge of the Reflecting Pool on Sunday. One wore a pink frog costume with “Amphifa,” a one-two jab combination of Amphibian and Antifa. Their […]
Washington DC—“ It’s not easy being green,” so said Kermit the Frog when things weren’t going quite right for the little green guy. And things are really going off the rails at the Reflecting Pool. Attempts to paint the Reflecting Pool with flag-blue for the nation’s 250th birthday have turned […]
Washington DC—The Institute for Primary Facts began its weeklong opening of the Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room on Monday, June 8. The display opened to the public on Tuesday, June 9, after an exclusive day for media coverage. The display will continue traveling to other cities […]
Washington DC—Non-union workers are in the last week of spraying layers of combination aerosol blue paint and sealant thought to be toxic, into the dry bed of the Reflecting Pool basin. The iconic monument built in 1922 rests midway between the Washington and Lincoln Memorials, and is a lesser recognized […]
Washington DC—Dozens of grassroots groups joined hands at Noon on Friday in a May Day referendum on worker’s, immigrant’s, and civil rights. The May Day protest began in the shadow of the Washington Monument, just across from the Ellipse of the White House. The action saw speakers from Immigrant families, […]
Washington DC—Thousands of citizens from across the DC-Maryland-Virginia region rallied at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery, for the third No Kings protest (NK3), the site where Trump plans to build the world’s largest arch, in honor of himself. They performed a skit with paper-mâché caricatures lampooning Trump and six […]
Alexandria, VA—One week out from the No Kings III March planned for March 28, and grassroots groups were finishing final plans and projects likely to result in one of the most massive protests in US history. The groups have built formidable clout by coalition building and linking dozens of groups […]