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Man injured by violent arrest at Dec 5 civil rights protest in Chinatown

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 12/06/2014 - 16:02

On Dec 5, civil rights protesters in DC shut down Chinatown on multiple occasions. At about 10:55PM cops suddenly pursued someone said to be one of the protesters, the crowd surged after them. When the scene opened up a bit one man was down and in handcuffs. He suffered seizures police said were caused by being pepper sprayed. They left him in handcuffs through the seizures, and no ambulance was summoned. Finally a bunch of cops picked him up like a log and carried him off to an unknown destination at or beyond the end of the block.

Video showing results of police assault on man said to be a protester

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This man was injured by police

Civil Rights protesters shut down Chinatown, blockade Verizon Center

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 19:21

On the 5th of December, civil rights protesters returned to Chinatown, staging a massive die-in in rush hour traffic before blockading the Verizon Center. In a repeat of the previous night's scene at the Hyatt/ALEC confrontation, bike cops blocked off the Verizon Center as well, creating a front-line similar to at a very large IMF protest.

Video of the later 11PM die-in at 7th and H in Chinatown

11PM Dec 5:Violent arrest leaves one protester injuredVideo

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John Zangas photo of Chinatown die-in

Major DC Ferguson Protest shuts streets, storms Hyatt and Wal-Mart

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 12/05/2014 - 00:21

On the 4th of December, thousands marched in DC streets after dark to protest the police murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and so many others. Protesters hit the National Christmas Tree lighting, then shut down the 14th st Bridge (again) and I-395 in a separate incident. They stormed the downtown Hyatt looking for an ALEC meeting, laid siege to the Hyatt near Union Station where ALEC was finally found, and finally stormed the Wal-Mart at 1st and H st for the 3ed time. The Wal-Mart action got tough: it was an opposed storming and security responded by locking some of the protesters inside. Security was forced to let everyone back out as pressure mounted outside.

Video-protesters storm Wal-Mart

Video-huge march from MPD headquarters to the Wilson building

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The massive crowd that gathered on the steps of MPD HQ with far more still in the street

Eric Garner/Ferguson march blockades K st, Dupont, Adams-Morgan

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 23:28

On the 3rd of December, a New York grand jury refused to indict the cop responsible for the chokehold death of Eric Garner. In response, protesters here in DC as well as in NY took to the streets. In DC, protesters blocked up intersections at K st, all the entrances to Dupont Circle, and finally marched into and blocked up Adams-Morgan. At Dupont they were joined by protesters against the murder of 43 students by Mexican police allied with drug cartels.

Video of the H st, K st, and Dupont Circle portions of the protest including a confrontational motorist who got out of his car

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Blockading K st

Code Pink protests ReMax sales of settlement homes in Occupied Palestine

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 17:48

On the 3ed of December, Code Pink showed up at the Capitol Hill office of Remax, demanding they stop selling settlement homes on stolen land in the Palestinian West Bank. ReMax's Israeli subsidiary is trafficking in homes build on stolen land as part of the illegal settlements. Therefore, ReMax has become a target of the BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement.

Video of Code Pink at ReMax

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Ferguson protesters shut down Union Station

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 12/02/2014 - 22:36

On the 2nd of December Ferguson protesters took action again in DC, this time shutting down Union Station's Metro entrance and bus tunnel in afternoon rush hour. Many of the protesters were Howard University students.

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Code Pink photo

Ferguson protesters block 14th st bridge

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:59

On the 1st of December, Ferguson protesters blocked the 14th st Bridge for about 1/2 hour in AM rush hour. This was the day after a similar protest blocked I-395 on perhaps the busiest travel day of the year. There was one ugly incident involving a motorist in an expensive Mercedes who tried to push through the blockade but was stopped. This was shortly after another motorist was allowed to pass after saying he was going to a dialysis appointment. Apparently letting one car pass made other drivers more aggressive. The line of protesters blocked the bridge until shortly after the cops read out the required 1st of three warnings for a mass arrest, then marched off the bridge.

Video of the blockade of the 14th st Bridge

Another angle on the Mercedes whose driver tried to push through the blockade-Youtube

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Chesapeake Earth First! redecorates at offices of Enbridge lobbyist Hill and Knowlton

Submitted by Luke on Sun, 11/30/2014 - 18:36

On the 30th of November, Chesapeake Earth First!, responding to a solidarity call from Idle No More, redecorated sidewalks and construction boards at the offices of Hill and Knowlton. Hill and Knowlton is the main DC area lobbyist for tar sands pipeline company Enbridge. Enbridge is infamous for trying to build tar sands pipelines over the objections of First Nations communities in Occupied Canada.Each of these is another Keystone XL, like the Keystone all of them cross Indigenous lands, and all of them must be and will be stopped.

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Chesapeake Earth First! was here

Ferguson protesters block SE-SW freeway

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 11/30/2014 - 18:00

On the 30th of November, DC Ferguson protesters escalated their tactics with a hard blockade shutting down the SE-SW Freeway on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

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NBC News photo

A Short Talk with the President

Submitted by white pine on Sun, 11/30/2014 - 00:33

Eventually a sentence formed in my head that I thought got to the gist of things without risking my getting tackled by the Secret Service (I'm not as brave as the Code Pink women) and in a quiet moment while he was at the register summoned up as clear and loud a voice as I could to say "Hope you can close Guantanamo!"

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