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Trump's Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline executive orders draw big emergency protest

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 22:50

On the 24th of January, "Fuhrer" Donald Trump signed executive orders to restart the Keystone XL approval process and attempt to ram through the Dakota Access Pipeline. At 5PM, with just 4 hours notice, protesters started gathering at the White House to denounce this reckless decision. What began at 5PM with hundreds swelled by nightfall to what several Twitter posters estimated as more than 1,500 protesters.

Related: Arrests reported by far-right sources in NYC's #NoDAPL street march

Video from the start of the rally

Environment/Food/Health

Banners surrounded by the growing crowd

Urgent warning: Cops rooting through activist email accounts using stolen phones

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 14:00

https://twitter.com/georgejoseph94 is reporting evidence that police are using cell phones stolen from activists caught in the mass arrest at DisruptJ20 to log into email accounts of activists. Anyone with such an account needs to change their passphrase and lock out their former devices, and may want to close and replace the offending accounts RIGHT NOW if possible.

Police/Legal/Prisons

Jan 2017:The first Month of Resistance to Trump

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 02:50

Video compilation of protests and direct actions mostly in DC against Trump, against racism, and against fascism.

Video-23 Days of Resistance

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Police/Legal/Prisons
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Right Wing

Trump announces plans to proceed with DAPL

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 00:02

In one of his very first acts in office, Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer hinted Trump plans to proceed with the Dakota Access Pipeline. Shortly before 10PM on Jan 23, Trump's White House confirmed this plan. The Environmental Impact Statement process is now underway, buying time for the #NoDAPL campaign to target and drive away banks and investors funding the project. Trump will probably attempt to short-circuit this review with some kind of fast-track process.

Environment/Food/Health
Race/Racism

Banners dropped over Beltway in Day 3 of Resistance to Trump's regime

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 01/22/2017 - 22:32

Jan 22 is Donald Chump's 3rd day in office and acts of resistance continue. On I-495 (Capitol Beltway) between Ga Ave and Connecticut Ave a pair of banners were dropped, one facing each direction. The banner facing the eastbound lanes reads "Love Trumps Hate" and a banner facing the westbound lanes reads "Dump Trump." Trump is already becoming extraordinarily dangerous. His neo-Nazi buddy Richard Spencer (who got punched during the Inauguration) is challenging Trump to make overtly confronting anti-Fascist activists the first test of his reign. This is just like the old "first they came for the Communists" situation except that anarchists and other progressives are also being targetted.

Elections/Legislation/Government
Race/Racism

Love Trumps Hate banner facing eastbound traffic on I-495. A traffic backup blocked a photo run on the Westbound lanes to get an image of the "Dump Trump" banner facing that way.

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