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People for Fairness Coalition marches w/ casket for 55 homeless who died on DC streets

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 12/19/2014 - 14:35

In the last year 55 homeless people have died on the streets of DC-55 too many. On the 19th of December, after an all-night vigil on Freedom Plaza, the People for Fairness Coalition marched a casket representing these 55 people from the plaza to the NY Ave Presbyterian Church, and from there to Mitch Snyder's gravesite.

Stirring video of the march

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification
Human Rights
Local News/Neighborhoods

Homeless and supporters march to Freedom Plaza from Mitch Snyder's grave site

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 21:25

On the 18th of December, DC homeless folks and their allies gathered at Mitch Snyder's gravesite, then marched to Freedom Plaza to an all-night vigil for those who have died on the streets while homeless. Many carried signs bearing the names of people who died on the street. At the vigil a casket is set up in a tent representing those who have died, it will be marched up to Mitch Snyder's grave site on Dec 19.

Video-The march plus interview(begins 1:42) with vigil participant who discusses Mayor-Elect Bowser's choice to support DC's Olympic bid instead of helping homeless people

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification
Human Rights
Local News/Neighborhoods

Setting out from Thomas Circle

DC Ferguson Twitter posts blocked by spam, deletions

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 20:55

On the 18th of December, Twitter posts tagged with #dcferguson disappeared from Twitter searches unless "top" was selected instead of "all." Since "top" stories are old, this made it impossible to use Twitter to call protesters to assemble at a short notice time and place. Twitter themselves or right-wing/police hackers could potentially do this. For several days before this, a #dcferguson Twitter search would return large numbers of "falabeats" audio promos, and finally returned a half dozen pages of those posts at some times on Dec 18, burying almost all other posts.

Civil Rights/Equal Rights
Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism
Science/Technology

The Shortwave Report 12/19/14 Listen Globally!

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Anti-War/Peace
Elections/Legislation/Government
Environment/Food/Health
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World Uprisings

New video of Secret Service, Capitol Police getting aggressive with DC Ferguson

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 23:32

On the 17th of December, new video footage emerged from the "after-march" following Al Sharpton's massive civil rights march on Saturday, Dec 13. The Secret Service was filmed trying to force civil rights protesters from the sidewalk in front of the White House, only to throw in the towel when protesters stood their ground. In later footage the US Capitol Police refuse to permit Ferguson protesters to get anywhere near the Capitol during the night march, even though there is almost no traffic there.

Video-Secret Service gets aggressve with DC Ferguson

Video-US Capitol Police block DC Ferguson from approaching US Capitol

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Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

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