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Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of people allowed themselves to be herded like cattle through checkpoints and double fences. When the fireworks began to peak, hundreds of geese that normally use the reflecting pool fled in terror, running as fast as they could on the ground. I've never seen anything like this "flight of the grounded geese" before, but I've never had such a good vantage point for the fireworks either-just outside the barricades. Aside from the geese. I was also struck by ...

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Friday,June 12 was the second scheduled Free Speech march demanding an end to the recent wave of police dispersals(by force) of unpermitted street marches. This being Pride weekend, queer liberation was the chosen theme, with a focus on targetting "corporate Pride" One chant was "Corporate Pride makes me sick." The march began at P st Beach, the traditional gay woods,stepping off a little after midnight and taking P st heading towards Dupont Circle. When marchers passed the offices of the ...

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On June 5, riders gathered in the rain for dc's monthly Critical Mass bike ride. Within ten minutes of the start, an SUV driver rammed a cyclist. Cops let him go and even stated they could arrest the rider who was hit! Finally the cops decided to take no action at all-and the ride resumed, rain and all. In DC, Critical Mass rides on the first, not the last, Friday of every month. Critical Mass is about standing up for the RIGHT to ride a bike in the street without being run off the road by ...

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On May 14, Mayor Fenty appeared at the "Hinckley Hilton" to receive a lifetime achievement award from the DC Building Industry Association, a developer group. He had to run a gauntlet set up by Empower DC to get into the hotel to receive his award. Before things even began, a banner reading "Fenty stop giving away DC" was hung from a large statue undergoing renovation across the street. This structure, several stories high, was a perfect support for the banner. Empower DC distributed fliers ...

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At midnight on Mayday, protesters in DC retook the streets, furious about the previous week's police violence against IMF protesters. Demands included and end to the use of force to push protesters off the streets-and especially and end to detaining entire protests to sow fear and cause dispersal when people are allowed to leave individually. Police reacted by detaining THIS march when it went longer than they hoped, so THESE PROTESTS WILL RECUR ON THE SECOND FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH beginning ...

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101 days into Obama's administration, he has yet to deliver on his vow to CLOSE GUANTANIMO BAY! On the last day of April, 62 protesters in orange jumpsuits were arrested in front of Obama's White house. Included in the arrested were 55 protesters bearing nametags with the names of those "cleared for release"yet still held at Gitmo and five more bearing names of those who died at this infamous hellhole

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IMF/World Bank protests turned hot and heavy on April 25 in DC. Before it even started, new services were reporting 14 broken windows at PNC Bank-and more at Wachovia Bank and a condo building. Protesters finally deployed at about 7AM. While blockades of IMF delegate routes failed, eventually all groups converged and took the streets over the objection and resistance of the cops. Cops eventually blasted 30 people with pepper spray trying to force protesters OVER A FENCE and into a park! In ...

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IMF protests in Spring 2009 kicked off in DC with the Run on the Bank-a 5K run from Malcolm X Park to Georgetown to the IMF and World Bank. After cooling down,speakers at a press conference and rally denoucned the "free market" policies the IMF and World Bank support as responsible for econmic calamity locally and around the world

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On April 11, protesters in Thailand won Round 3 against the globalization summits-coming on the heels of major and aggressive protests of the G20 in London and NATO in France. Washington DC is next at bat, with the IMF and World Bank scheduled to meet here from April 24-April 26. Are you tired of being SCREWED by greedy bank vampires getting million dollar bonuses and trillion dollar bailouts? Come to DC and fight for our future from April 24-April 26.London,France, Thailand-We can do it too!...

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dc's mayor Fenty ran for office as a man of the people. Now, however, he is best know for closing homeless shelters, schools, and libraries. On March 11, 50-75 angry DC residents led by the People's Propery Campaign disrupted the second Fenty fundraiser in a row, nearly chasing him from the door. The day after the protest, the FBI raided the offices of a former Fenty staffer for corruption...

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