Monthly Archives: June 2013

On the 29th of June, antiwar protesters returned to the entrance to CIA headquarters on Dolly Madison Blvd. This time around, they arrived in the afternoon and some of them attempted to march directly into the “George W Bush Center … Continue reading →

TD Bank owns about 600 million shares of Transcanada, builder of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. For this they are known as “Tar Dollar Bank.” On the 29th of June a small crew of Climate First activists managed to … Continue reading →

On the 26th of June, a Code Pink/TASSC protest in solidarity with the hunger strikers at Guantanimo Bay featured a surprise: One of Code Pink’s own hunger strikers scaled the White House fence and got over while a re-enactment of … Continue reading →

On the 25th of June, DC Rising Tide, Chesapeake Earth First!, and other activists participated in the “Fearless Summer” week of action against dirty extreme energy. Protests began at the Canadian Embassy to oppose tar sands mining and the Keystone … Continue reading →

On the 29th of June, Code Pink discussed their recent trip to Yemen to meet with familes of drone strike victims and Gitmo detainees. The house was packed at Busboys and Poets. Video Highlights on Liveleak I found particularily disturbing … Continue reading →

On the 20th of June, UNITE HERE staged a rally at the Navy memorial including food service and parking lot workers from the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. One of the food service workers complained about pay so low he cannot … Continue reading →

Lynne Stewart is a famed attorney who was imprisoned supposedly for helping a client defeat communications restrictions. Now she is dying of cancer, ever her former judge has cleared her for release-but she is chained to a hospital bed. On … Continue reading →

On the 14th of June, area activists staged a protest near Upper Senate Park against the NSA’s “PRISM” spy program against the general public and in solidarity with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Capitol Police were unusually aggressive about trying to … Continue reading →

The Pride Festival on the 9th of June had many inappropriate participants, including the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security (!) as well as Lockheed Martin and Wells Fargo. Video clips from the Pride Festival The Wells Fargo display had … Continue reading →

On the 8th of June, conflict between tradtionalists and assimilationists in the GLBT community came to a head with a showdown at Capitol Pride. The Booty Bragidiers staged a pirate-themed parade out of Logan Circle, and marched to intercept the … Continue reading →