Monthly Archives: April 2016

On the 26th of April, members of a number of environmental organizations held a rally outside the Marriot on 12th st near Metro Center denouncing the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. Afterwards they sought to enter … Continue reading →

On the 25th of April, members of a number of churches and religious groups answered a call by Interfaith Moral Action on Climate to speak out and disrupt the April monthly meeting of FERC, infamous as the fracked gas industry’s … Continue reading →

Purvi Patel is serving 20 years of a 46 year “feticide” sentence in Indiana over a use of pills ordered online for a self-induced abortion that left her in the hospital. Donald Trump has called for, then tried to retract … Continue reading →

On the 19th of April, some of DC’s gentrifying developers held a “space finding” bus tour of Anacostia looking for convenient places to displace local people and build new settlements for the wealthy. Like the settlers who came before them, … Continue reading →

On the 18th of April,Democracy Awakening marched to the US Capitol for the culminating sit-in of a series begun a week ago by Democracy Spring. At the head of the march were NAACP and CASA contingents, including familes with small … Continue reading →

On the 18th of April, pro-migrant protesters took over much of the area in front of the US Supreme Court as the court heard Texas’s challenge to Obama’s deportation relief program. Texas and other GOP controlled states are trying to … Continue reading →

On the 17th of April, thousands participated in a massive march against corporate and other cash in politics. With this march, Democracy Spring transitioned into Democracy Awakening.The march wound past the House Office Buildings and the US Capitol before passing … Continue reading →

On the 16th if April, DCMJ’s full cannabis legalization activists returned to the White House, only to find Penn Ave closed, no doubt in fear of a return of the famous “51 foot joint.” Undeterred, they headed to the H … Continue reading →

On the 15th of April, the “Tiki Bar” in Solomons, MD opened for the year, drawing a huge crowd to tiny Solomons, MD. As the partying began, activists opposing Dominion’s under-construction LNG/fracked gas export plant at nearby Cove Point paddled … Continue reading →

On the 13th of April, Black Lives Matter and other Ward 8 organizers led Democracy Spring’s 3rd march on the US Capitol. The lead banner was from the Save Barry Farms organizers advising people to refuse to move, blocking displacement. … Continue reading →