Posts Tagged ‘protest’
Day of Action Against Guantanamo This Wednesday
Assemblance.WitnessAgainstTorture.GTMO.NW.WDC.7January2012
courtesy of ElvertBarnes
If you were surprised by all the underwear-clad Metro riders on Sunday, don’t be one of those people surprised by the orange and black human chain during lunch break on Wednesday.
On Jan. 11, activists from around the country will be locking arms from the White House to the Capitol to protest the [...]
Best of: DC Protests 2011
Occupy DC – In the Capitol’s Shadow 2
courtesy of theqspeaks
It’s been the year of the protestor in DC, and that’s after a 2010 filled with Tea Parties and Rallies for Sanity. We’ve seen protestors on our walks to work, outside and inside our memorials, sitting in the middle of the street and, yes, in [...]
Featured Photo
‘Entrance Fare’courtesy of ‘Collin David Anderson’
Not every great photograph is crisp and perfect, in clean focus and with smooth grain. This shot, from inside the Foggy Bottom Metro this weekend, captures the motion of this protestor as he leapt to the top of the faregate, and, from the description, into the waiting arms of MPD. [...]
Protesters Demand Removal of Wayne Clough from Smithsonian
All photos by Max Cook
In response to the removal of the David Wojnarowicz video from the National Portrait Gallery’s “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” exhibit, protesters gathered today in front of the Smithsonian Castle demanding the removal (or resignation) of Secretary Wayne Clough. While the media to protester ratio was nearly one to one, [...]
Armed Protesters
‘9-12 March in DC-24′
If you happen to see a group of armed Tea Baggers in Virginia tomorrow, don’t be alarmed! It’s merely a group of patriots(tm) attempting to make some sort of statement against big government by carrying firearms, which symbolizes something. A coalition of militias and gun rights groups that are ticked about, amongst [...]
BREAKING: Fire Bombs in NW DC
Photo by Allen Combs
A reader and WUSA 9 report that a man threw Molotov cocktails into the intersection at 17th and K St.. He was apparently holding a sign that said “Justice” on top of a van with “Not my $200 Million” emblazoned on the side. It is not clear exactly what he was protesting. [...]
Tea Bag Metro?
‘they’ve had enough’
courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
Tax hating, tea-party protesters are angry at Metro. You’d think it would be for being a publicly funded transit system that wastes tax-payer dollars as it ferries the excessively large federal workforce in and out of the city. It turns out, however, that the tea baggers are upset because WMATA’s service [...]
DC Mythbusting: The National Mall as Protest Central
‘Iran Protest in DC’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
Welcome to another DC Mythbusting! This week, we’ll be discussing the National Mall and its place as the country’s ‘front yard’ for protesting and gathering. With such a wide open space, in view of both Congress and the President, clearly the National Mall was created to be a place [...]
Conservative “Activists” at Metro Stations
Some activity around Union Station and Foggy Bottom Metro stations today; protestors with signs and petition clipboards calling for an end to “Rxationed Health Care” and protecting “Worker’s Rights.” Not your typical Greenpeace minimum wage clipboarders or LaRouchie card table shriners, though; the attire was a bit too far over this side of smart casual, [...]
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