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Two arrested in lockdown at Lusby offices of Dominion contractor over gas export

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 13:58

On the morning of Dec 3, two member of We Are Cove Point locked down at the offices of IHI/Kiewit, a top contractor on Dominion's LNG/fracked gas export project at Cove Point. This was the third day in a row of action in Calvert County to stop Dominion's plans to export fracked gas out of the old, mostly unused gas import plant at Cove Point on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Dominion is in the early stages of a massive rebuild and expansion of the plant to handle large-scale export of fracked gas.

Environment/Food/Health

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.

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Code Pink photo

40+ rally in cold rain outside Cove Point gas export site

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/02/2014 - 13:55

On the 2nd of December, opponents of Dominion Resources plans for fracked gas export out of Cove Point, MD showed up outside the "offsite A" construction area off MD 2-4 and Cove Point Road. Over 40 people showed up in cold rain to demand that Lusby and Cove Point not become "sacrifice areas" for energy export.

Environment/Food/Health

Protesters on Dominion's doorstep-We Are Cove Point 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

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

We are Cove Point blockades Solomons pier construction site, 7 arrests

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:14

On the 1st of December, two residents of Lusby, MD and 5 supporters were arrested in Solomons, MD blocking the gate of Dominion's "offsite B" construction site. Dominion's mostly Texan workforce is scrambling to complete this pier before a Dec 16 moratorium on construction in the water that lasts until mid-March. The Solomons pier is intended for loading "megaloads" from barges onto trucks to travel to Dominion's fracked gas export site at Cove Point, MD.

Youtube video posted by We Are Cove Point and Popular resistance

Environment/Food/Health

We are Cove Point photo of gate blockade

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.

Video

Environment/Food/Health

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.

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

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!"

Anti-War/Peace
Civil Liberites/Constitution
Foreign Policy/Imperialism
Local News/Neighborhoods
Media

DC Ferguson protesters close Georgetown streets, storm Pentagon City mall

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 11/29/2014 - 18:18

On the 29th of November, DC Ferguson protesters marched through Georgetown and shut down the streets. When the march headed out of Georgetown, marchers transitioned from the sidewalks to block shoppers who did not drive in from reaching the doors of upscale stores. At the end of the march, protesters surged into the Foggy Bottom Metro, got off at Pentagon City, and stormed into the shopping mall.

Video of the march on Georgetown

Video of protesters storming Pentagon City

A Lakota woman speaks at the march on Georgetown

Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Shutting down Wisconsin and M sts

Fur-free Friday pickets Furrier's Row, storms Miller's Furs

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 18:49

Black Friday is also known as Fur Free Friday. On Fur Free Friday, Nov 28, 2014, animal rights protesters marched around the fur shops around the DC-MD line, including Neiman-Marcus, Saks 5th Ave, Dior, and Bloomingdales. Afterwards everyone pretended to disperse, then some of them reassembled and stormed into Miller's Furs in Bethesda, MD.

Video of march through "Furrier's Row"

Video of protesters storming Miller's Furs

Animal Rights

Black Friday labor protesters march on Wal-Mart, get inside

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 10:52

On Black Friday, also known as Buy Nothing Day, labor protesters including striking Wal-Mart associates marched on the 1st and H st Wal-Mart in the third protest there this week. Some of the protesters managed to get inside first in a trickle, then a flood before police pushed them out. Several protesters were shoved by the same cop, and some were also threatened.

Video focussing on the protest inside the Wal-Mart

Labor/Economics/Business

Strikers, supporters at Ga Ave Wal-Mart protest as store opens on holiday

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 11/27/2014 - 22:45

The new Wal-Mart stores in DC chose to open on the settler holiday known as Thanksgiving, a day most workers get to spend with their families. As they did, striking Wal-Mart associates backed by community activsts and supporters set up a mock dinner table outside the Ga Ave Wal-Mart to distribute cupcakes and fliers while they picketed. Police tried to intimidate them out of having a table on public space but Rev Hagler stood his ground and it was the police who backed away.

Video featuring Rev Hagler standing up to police attempts to force removal of the table from the protest

Labor/Economics/Business

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