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Native Americans rally against DAPL during White House Tribal Nations Conference

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 09/26/2016 - 20:58

On the 26th of September, Obama met with tribal leaders at the White House Tribal Nations Conference. Outside, Native Americans and allies rallied around the demand that the US Army Corps of Engineers and other parts of the Executive Branch block and reject the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).Presumably the DAPL and other pipelines that threaten Indigenous health and survival were near tne top of the agenda given current events in Standing Rock, N Dakota.

Video-whose land? OUR land!

Environment/Food/Health
Race/Racism
Native Americans demand Obama reject Dakota Access Pipeline as Obama meets with leaders

21 arrests at Pentagon war protest

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 09/26/2016 - 20:39

On September 26, 2016, antiwar activists activists associated with the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) went to the Pentagon today seeking a meeting with decision-makers in the Pentagon chain of command including Secretary Ashton Carter. They told Pentagon police they wouldn’t leave until they spoke to an official in a position of authority about war crimes committed by the US and that they were following their obligations under Nuremberg to draw attention to these crimes of US government elected and appointed officials. Although the activists were nonviolent the Pentagon police placed 21 activists under arrest and charged them with “Violation of a Lawful Order”.

Code Pink's Youtube video from the Pentagon civil disobedience.

Anti-War/Peace

NCNR photo

Terrence Sterling remembered at predawn torchlight rally,rush hour blockade of NY Ave

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 09/26/2016 - 06:53

Update 9-27: Protesters block NY ave 2nd day in row early afternoon, march on police HQ.

Beginning at 4AM on Sep 26, Black Lives Matter activists gathered at 3rd and M st to remember Terrence Sterling, shot off of his motorcycle by DC Police at 4:20AM on Sep 11, 2016. Demands at the rally included releasing all video from the shooting plus the names and addresses of the officers involved. A further demand was that the DC police be disarmed, their guns be taken away.As morning rush hour reached its peak the group marched onto NY Ave and shut it down with a curb to curb blockade

Video of the takeover of NY Ave

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Blocking NY Ave in memory of Terrence Stirling

Blocking NY Ave for Terrence Sterling

Spectra " Representatives" Expelled From FERC meeting

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 22:20

On the 22nd of September, outraged "representatives" of Spectra Energy were kicked out of the monthly meeting of FERC for whining about the possibility of a “stop work order” on Spectra’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project.The magic words were "we pay your salary!"

Video of Spectra "executives" being expelled from FERC

Environment/Food/Health

Security removing a Spectra "lobbyist" from the monthly meeting of FERC. the Federal Energ Regulatory Commission

Spectra's "lobbyists" get kicked out of FERC

Renters Day of Action rally demands rent freeze, eviction moratorium

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 01:36

The 22nd of September was the national Renter's Day of Action, with protests in over 50 cities. In DC, tenants from Congress Heights, Museum Square, and other threatened buildings gathered on Alabama Ave by 3200 13th st. Geoff Griffis of City Partners(investor) and Sanford Capitol(landlord) plan to demolish it and the adjacent occupied buildings anyway to build luxury apartments. They are stopped at the moment by Metro refusing to put a related land sale on the agenda. The banner at 3200 13th st read "liberated territory" and police acted like they expected OneDC and Justice First! to sieze the building like what happened at Parcel 42 back in 2010.

Video including Luci Murphy, the demands-and those security guards

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification
Local News/Neighborhoods

Gathering at Congress Heights

Renters Day of Action in DC

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