Monthly Archives: May 2016

On the 27th of May, Heather Doyle was convicted of filing a “false” police report for truthfully complaining about being dragged by police from the Feb 3, 2015 crane sit against Dominion’s gas export manner in an unsafe manner. She … Continue reading →

On the 27th of May, a Critical Mass bike ride took to the streets of DC with well over 50 riders. Although nowhere near the size of the DC Bike Parties that can attract up to 600 riders, the Critical … Continue reading →

On the 26th of May, a neo-Nazi propaganda poster promoting Donald Trump appeared on a Metro station post at Union Station. The poster used a caricature of Jews consistant with those drawn in Nazi newspapers in Germany during the 1930’s … Continue reading →

On April 28, 2016, a former U.S. Marine and current civilian employee of the US Marine base on Okinawa, Japan raped and murdered a local woman. This was the latest in a decades long string of rapes associated with that … Continue reading →

On the 24th of May in Albuquerque, New Mexico, protesters fought a significant battle against police and disrupted yet another racist Donald Trump event. Opponents of the racist hate spewed by would-be Fuhrer Trump sucessfully stormed through a police barricade … Continue reading →

Wal-Mart fired Arleja Stevens for pregnancy-related absences two years after agreeing never to do so. On May 25, she walked back into the H st Wal-Mart to demand her job back. She was backed by activists from Making Change at … Continue reading →

On evening of the 21st of May, Black Lives Matter activists gathered at the Department of Justice to demand investigations into police murders of Black women both Cisgendered and Transgendered. A projector was set up, showing scenes of some of … Continue reading →

The monthly “public” meeting on May 19th of the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee (FERC) was closed to the public in response to this week’s protests. In response protesters took over 1st St NE in front of FERC’s doors. Sounds of … Continue reading →

On the 18th of May the US International Trade Commission (US ITC) released its economic impact statement of the TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. Outside, both the Rubber Stamp Rebellion and the No Lame Duck Uprising were present, performing … Continue reading →

On the 17th of May, the Rubber Stamp Rebellion showed up in front of FCC Chairman Norman Bey’s Dupont Circle area DC home.Some stayed all night-and early the next morning a notice of eminent domain was read out and a … Continue reading →