DC

On the 15th of January, refusefascism.org staged the second of their nightly street marches that begin with a 4PM rally at McPherson Square. This march went through Chinatown and then on to Trump Hotel. A tense confrontation ensued marchers surging against the hotel's barricades as security guards strained to hold them back. Eventually more guards and cops reinforced the barricade, foreclosing the possiblity of pushing through and storming the hotel-for that night.

Video including the confrontation at Trump Hotel

On the 11th of January, Witness Against Torture changed tactics in their annual protest on the anniversary of the opening of Guantanimo Bay. Instead of the annual "America's March of Shame" in the orange jumpsuits, they took over the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building and dropped banners from the balconies. Fifteen people were arrested.

On the 10th of January, Trump's attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions began his confirmation hearings before Congress. He was known 30 years ago as a KKK sympathiser and this came up in the hearings. He claimed he would support civil rights, but anti-Trump protesters begged to disagree. Several were removed from the hearing, including two Code Pink activists dressed as KKK members to mock Session's past. Both of the protesters in the hoods were arrested.

17 second clip showing Code Pink mocking Sessions dressed in hoods and robes,

On the 2nd of January, DC Mayor Bowser faced the "little Counterinaugural" as Black Lives Matter activists set up in front of her demanding answers about the police shootings of Terrence Sterling and Javon Hall. Three people were forcibly removed while the Mayor went on bragging about private security cameras-and even about the police body cameras whose footage she refuses to release in the Javon Hall case. The cop who shot Terrence Sterling had his camera turned off entirely.

Update Jan 4:Mayor Bowser releases police body camera footage of Javon Hall shooting after two days in a row of protests directed at her. Protest works!

Video-three DC residents dragged from swearing-in over Terrence Sterling and Javon Hall signs