Washington, DC–The LGBTQ community held a dance party and kiss-in in front of Trump International Hotel, saying they were not going to tolerate its bigotry, racism and oppression of minority groups. They had choice words for the Trump Administration, calling several cabinet members out on their record and conduct towards […]
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Immigrant workers around the country on February 16 flexed their economic muscle with a strike called “Un Dia Sin Inmigrante,” or “A Day Without Immigrants.” Planned at a three-day conference in Boston on February 10, the series of boycotts and strikes are intended to gain leverage for foreign-born citizens, visa […]
Washington, DC–President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embraced warmly today at their first official meeting at the White House, finding common cause in building oil pipelines, among other things. But protesters, who staked out Trudeau at the Canadian embassy later in the afternoon, made sure that the […]
Washington, DC–Protests against a Muslim ban continued Saturday, surging like a locomotive across the country, one week after President Trump issued a sweeping executive order (EO) banning immigrants and refugees from entering the U.S. from seven majority-Muslim countries. The protests continued despite a Friday afternoon Federal Court order temporarily lifting […]
Spontaneous demonstrations popped up at airports across the country after President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning nationals from Muslim-majority countries. Immigration advocacy groups slammed the move as xenophobic and Islamophobic. The sweeping order applies to nationals of seven countries, including, Lybia, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen, […]
Washington, DC–Hundreds of thousands marched Saturday, January 21 from the Capitol building to the White House in what will be recorded as the nation’s largest demonstration for women’s reproductive rights, equality, and economic parity. The Women’s March on Washington squeezed in hundreds of thousands, completely filling the National Mall. Many […]
Washington, DC–The Secret Service has denied credentialed press access to a protest space permitted to ANSWER Coalition along the Inauguration route at the Navy Memorial, according to Brian Becker, National Coordinator for the group. Becker said that the Secret Service is not granting press permits to set up stands to […]
Washington, DC–January 20, 2017 may go down in history as the most chaotic inauguration ever as groups opposed to the administration of Donald Trump are finalizing plans to disrupt it. The groups form a loose coalition under the banner #DisruptJ20 with plans to blitz all 12 entry checkpoints with blockades, […]
An unidentified individual vandalized the renown anti-nuclear protest in front of the White House on Friday night, damaging one of its large signs. The person either kicked or punched the wooden sign, cracking and breaking it in several places, according to the volunteer present at the time. The volunteer, who […]
Washington, DC–A cold snap did not stop hundreds from marching to the Capitol with Standing Rock Sioux and allied tribe members of the Pontiac and Piscataway Nations on Sunday. Elders embraced allies as “relatives” to continue building on a growing bond of solidarity, and thanked them for their support in […]
Washington, DC — Several hundred people, led by Native Americans in ceremonial dress, marched from the Department of Justice to the Washington Monument on Sunday in protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is under construction on land belonging to Sioux Nations according to an 1851 treaty. This event was […]
Washington, DC — They came to the Cuban Embassy to say goodbye to a revolutionary and long time leader who guided Cuba through six decades as the President. Fidel Castro died yesterday at 90 after a long illness. He was remembered by admirers as a revolutionary more than a president, […]