A breach of an electron pipe at a solar panel farm spilled millions of gallons of energy into the Potomac River near Seneca, MD overnight. High concentrations of electrons and photons were detected at the spill site and appeared to have flowed as far as Great Falls, Virginia by dawn. […]
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Metropolitan Police are beefing up tactical forces to deal with a sudden spike in free range kids in the District. Police were first alerted to the influx of roamers by the DC Department of Human Services. Local residents began noticing a surge of children near playgrounds and parks after the […]
Davinia “Panama” Miles, 42, and her husband, Byron, nicknamed “B”, 49, sit at the corner coffee shop overlooking McPherson square. They find temporary warmth and a place to chat, insulated from the heavy rush-hour traffic. They charge phones and warm their hands, part of their nightly ritual before heading out onto the street and […]
Anthony, 47 years old, is friendly as he greets me in McPherson Square on Christmas. “What have you got for me?” he asks. His companion, “Chico,” is an obedient Pit Bull mix and looks up suspiciously as I go through my bag to find something for him to eat. Chico […]
It’s dusk on Christmas Eve. A white van of Samaritans stops at the corner of Eye Street. On queue the men shuffle to its hatch and line up. She opens its side door at the curb. At McPherson the men linger late into the night, waiting for food, gloves, hats, and tonight’s menu: steamy […]
They say that the longest journey begins with one step. The Great March for Climate Action took its first steps on March 1 in Los Angeles. By November 1, when the marchers arrive at the White House, they will have taken over 15 million steps. Thirty-four people started in Port of Wilmington […]
New York On May 24th, more than 1,600 people participated in a global protest against Monsanto in New York City. People gathered in Union Square, many dressed as bees and carrying homemade signs. Video of comedian Lee Camp at Union Square: We’re in the middle of a drop-down, drag-out bloody […]
Nearly a hundred people associated with labor advocacy groups Working Families of DC and Our DC rallied at Union Station, then marched to the U.S. Capitol on March 27 in support of living wages for struggling families in the District. They demanded that Mayor Vincent Gray approve a living wage […]
An Egyptian court sentenced 529 supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to death on March 24 for killing a police officer. Today protestors from CODEPINK took their objections to the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC: “The trial was clearly a sham and your government, which has jailed over 16,000 […]
The shooting of twenty children and six staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 so shocked Americans that they seemed to have reached their breaking point. Many, like mother Shannon Watts, no longer found inaction regarding gun violence acceptable. In response, she […]
They might as well have dared them to do it. In the process of being renovated, the north side of the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office is covered in scaffolding. To reach the rooftop of the four-story building, you don’t even have to pass through its doors. All you have to […]
by Cool Revolution Within two hours of the announcement of George Zimmerman’s acquittal on July 13, crowds gathered in the U Street neighborhood of Washington, DC to express their outrage at the jury’s verdict in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin. A racially diverse group paraded through the thick […]