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Bodybags dumped at Trump Hotel over COVID-19 response-twice

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 04/27/2020 - 20:00

On the 23ed of April-and again a day or two later, protesters showed up at Trump Hotel and laid down mock bodybags symbolizing those killed by Trump's "response" to the pandemic. This is especially appropriate after Trump's remarks about drinking or injecting bleach etc.

Video: Protesters lay bodybags, drive Tax Chicken past Trump Hotel 53 sec

Environment/Food/Health

Earth Day to Mayday begins with XRDC "Guerilla Gardeners"

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 04/23/2020 - 12:53

Extinction Rebellion DC Spokesperson Sophia Kianni reports: "On Wednesday, XRDC sent out teams of guerrilla gardeners to plant herbs, fruit trees and vegetables in abandoned lots around the city and wider DMV. The rebels targeted a dozen locations, including Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, Silver Spring, Capitol Hill and Brookland."

Environment/Food/Health

Nurses protest at White House for Personal Protective Equipment

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 04/21/2020 - 23:53

On the 21st of April, National Nurses United read out the names of nurses who have died in the fight against the zoonotic COVID-19 coronavirus. They were protesting being literally sent into battle with little or no armor, and demanding that Trump ensure that US industry produced enough masks and protective gear for them.

Video cropped from National Nurses United Twitter video(vertical) 2 min 20 sec

Environment/Food/Health

Still cut from National Nurses United's Twitter video

Second Decarcerate DC Car Caravan demands release of jail, halfway house, St E's prisoners

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 23:11

On Emancipation Day, the 16th of April, the second Decarcerate DC car caravan protest took to the streets. This time they started at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital and drove to the DC Jail. Again demands were the release of all prisoners in St E's, the DC jail, and all halfway houses to avoid a coronavirus death sentence.

Video of car caravan originally published by SURJ-DC 21 sec

Police/Legal/Prisons

Still from SURJ-DC video of the car caravan near the start

IMF Spring Meetings driven online by virus on 20th anniversary of A16

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 12:52

Twenty years ago on the day this was written, the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings were beseiged and shut down by betweenb 20,000 and 30,000 direct action protesters. Now the Spring Meetings have been driven to online venues by a different kind of siege: the coronavirus. Reports that the IMF and World Bank agreed to cancel all debts "owed" to them unfortunately turned out to be an online prank.

Video-A16 20 years later,now virus beseiges IMF 2 min 4 sec

Environment/Food/Health
Globalization/Anti-globalization

ShutDownDC holds public protest for People's Bailout on Capitol Hill

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 04/10/2020 - 01:01

On the 9th of April, the ShutDownDC activists who staged last year's major climate change blockades in DC held a public protest on Capitol Hill to demand a "People's Bailout." They were protesting Trump's coronavirus packages that focus primarily on saving corporations.

Environment/Food/Health
Labor/Economics/Business

Noisy Car Caravan demands DC release all prisoners to avoid coronavirus

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 20:04

On the 8th of April, a noisy car caravan took to the streets of DC, demanding that all prisoners in the DC Jail and in Central Cell Block be released immediately so they don't contract the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus.

Video of the noise protest motorcade 1 min 10 sec

Environment/Food/Health
Police/Legal/Prisons

"Hogan's Zeroes" make 15,000 stay at home compliance police checks in MD

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 21:45

On the 7th of April, MD Governor Hogan's spokesman Mike Ricci brazenly tweeted that cops in MD have made 15,000 "compliance checks" related to Gov Hogan's stay at home order, made 14 arrests,and issued 665 warnings. Over 50 of the warnings went to MD residents at their homes. This is heavy-duty "health Fascism" well beyond events in other states, and related more to power than to actual virus concerns.

Police/Legal/Prisons

Correct behaviour when looting

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/31/2020 - 19:23

How should I act when I'm looting. A guide for young and old.

Satire/Humor

Mayor Bowser lifts "Cherry Blossom Blockade"

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 03/27/2020 - 17:02

On the 26th of March, the swarm of cops and occasional National Guard vehicles were gone from the Tidal Basin area, but the cherry blossoms were still out. With very few people present beyond some car traffic it was an utterly safe time for the few who braved reports of the Mayor calling out the Guard over the cherry blossoms and got to see them in privacy.

Video-"private showing" of Haines Point cherry blossoms after Mayor Bowser withdraws National Guard 1 min 34 sec

Culture/Entertainment
Environment/Food/Health

Some car traffic but relatively few people on foot

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