Monthly Archives: September 2014

On the 26th of September at least 50 riders took part in DC’s monthly Critical Mass bike ride. These rides depart from Dupont Circle shortly after 8PM on the last Friday of every month. High energy video of the ride … Continue reading →

On the 25th of September, Code Pink and ANSWER protested at the White House against Obama’s newly intensified bombing of Syria and Iraq. The first protest was at noon, undeterred by rain. The second was at 7PM, when Code Pink … Continue reading →

Chesapeake Earth First! was on the front lines during the Monday, Sep 22 “Flood Wall St” UN Climate Protests and also the next day, as an Obama fundraiser drew protesters against his love affair with money from the gas fracking … Continue reading →

On the 23ed of September, two groups in DC staged direct action solidarity protests with the events in NYC over climate change. Rising Tide DC (RTDC) marched through the streets staging blockades in front of corporate polluters. Meanwhile, the National … Continue reading →

Sun, Sep 21-4:30PM:An estimate of 310,000 participants is published on Twitter, march was at least 25 blocks long Video of Bike Bloc with Petrosaurus, swordfish bikes Video ofPeople’s Climate March on 42nd St Video of anticapitalist bloc Hands Up don’t … Continue reading →

On the 10th of September, several DC cops assigned to or othewise escorting the monthly Bike Party drive their cars in ways that made some of the riders feel they were being put as risk for a collision. They muscled … Continue reading →

54 sec video clip including booing protesters On the 10th of September, Obama gave a speech formally announcing the US was return to war in Iraq and now also in Syria, but only from the air supposedly. No war has … Continue reading →

On the 9th of September, the Alliance for Appalachia delivered a very bad report card (mostly incompletes and an F-) to Obama’s Council on Environmental Quality for five years of broken promises on protecting people from water being poisoned by … Continue reading →

On the 9th of September, GLBTQ immigration rights activists held a rally at the White House demanding protection from deportation, which can be especially dangerous GLBTQ when people are returned to homophobic countries like Uganda or post-coup Honduras. Video-one of … Continue reading →

On the 8th of September, Earth Quaker Action team showed up at the Dupont Circle branch of PNC Bank, intending to enter the bank and perfrom a “4th grade math” themed skit against PNC’s investments in mountaintop removal coal mining. … Continue reading →