Monthly Archives: April 2020

On the 29th of April, ShutdownDC activists showed up in front of Jeff Bezo’s new DC mansion. Once there, they painted a murel demanding that Amazon protect their workers from COVID-19, now known to be spreading in Amazon “fulfillment centers” … Continue reading →

DC Hub, the DC Tenant’s Union, and Sunrise are demanding that Mayor Bowser and the DC Council cancel all rent payments citywide for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sunrise started things off with banners on Freedom Plaza across from … Continue reading →

On the 27th of April, two motorcades and a bike caravan crosscrossed the city visiting locations where essential workers are placing themselves at risk for the public before converging in SE DC. During the closing rally in SE, cops demanded … Continue reading →

On the morning of April 27, a “CASAforall People’s Motorcade” drove around areas including the US Capitol to demand extension of DACA for the duration of the pandemic and an end to ICE detention. The motorcade approaching the US Crapitol … Continue reading →

Mayor Bowser-at her house. This was but the first of many stops in DC, one of over 40 cities hosting CancelTheRent events. In addition to rent cancellation, protesters demanded an end to now-lethal mass incarceration. One “correction facility” in the … Continue reading →

On the 23ed of August-and again a day or two later, protesters showed up at Trump Hotel and laid down mock bodybags symbolizing those killed by Trump’s “response” to the pandemic. This is especially appropriate after Trump’s remarks about drinking … Continue reading →

On the 21st of April, National Nurses United read out the names of nurses who have died in the fight against the zoonotic COVID-19 coronavirus. They were protesting being literally sent into battle with little or no armor, and demanding … Continue reading →

On the 21st of April, MOCO Students on Climate backed by Extinction Rebellion protested in Rockville against a digital meeting of the Board of Education after the scool board ignored 700 signatures on a petition demanding action on climate change. … Continue reading →

On Emancipation Day, the 16th of April, the second Decarcerate DC car caravan protest took to the streets. This time they started at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital and drove to the DC Jail. Again demands were the release of all prisoners … Continue reading →

Twenty years ago on the day this was written, the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings were beseiged and shut down by betweenb 20,000 and 30,000 direct action protesters. Now the Spring Meetings have been driven to online venues by … Continue reading →