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Massive Bike Party rides after Washington Post prints call for assaults on cyclists

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:13

On the 8th of July, the Washington Post published a vicious Courtland Milloy editorial encouraging motorists to run down cyclists. Cyclists on Twitter responded with the handle #BikeTerrorist, and on the evening of July 9 hundreds of riders took to the streets for the already-planned DC Bike Party.

Video-Bike Party takes Memorial Bridge

Environment/Food/Health

Bike Party takes Memorial Bridge

Antiwar Alert: Israel declares new war on Gaza Strip

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/08/2014 - 16:36

Ugly news from Occupied Palestine: The violence triggered by the killings of three Israeli teens and one Palestinian teenager burned alive has reached a new and menacing turn as Israel declares "Operation Protective Edge," the largest attack on Palestine since "Operation Cast Lead," also known as the Winter War.

Full Report on Israel's new war by International Middle East Media Center

Palestine Today for July 8

Anti-War/Peace
Foreign Policy/Imperialism

A Palestinian home shelled by Israeli forces

Mountaintop Removal protest at PNC Bank

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 07/05/2014 - 15:52

On the 5th of July, a PNC Bank account holder backed by Climate First! and Earth Quaker Action Team showed up at PNC Bank to demand that they stop investing in mountaintop removal coal mining.

Video focussing on account holder and the manager's response to her

Environment/Food/Health

UPDATED: Call for an Anticapitalist Bloc in the July 13 Cove Point fracked gas march on FERC

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/04/2014 - 23:45

On Sunday, the 13th of July, thousands will march from the US Capitol to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against fracking and against fracked gas export from Cove Point, MD on the Chesapeake Bay.

We are calling for an anticapitalist bloc within this march on the grounds that stopping the destruction of Earth by fracking, tar sands, and mountaintop removal will require the overthrow of capitalism

The march will be gathering on the West side of the US Capitol along 3ed st NW on the Mall, bounded by Madison Drive NW and Jefferson Drive SW, which is the center area. Meet at the rolling infoshop cart under the red and black flags, wear black T-shirts.

Environment/Food/Health

July 4th Hemp/Cannabis parade runs into "freedom fence" and checkpoints

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 07/04/2014 - 19:23

On the 4th of July, the annual Hemp/Cannabis legalization march had to pass through the Mall bag search checkpoints, at least one arrest was reported just past the checkpoints. Some others refused to enter the concert area due to the checkpoints. Those checkpoints are probably why this march and concert no longer draws the thousands it used to before George W Bush brought public event checkpoints to DC.

Video of the march and checkpoint encountered

DC is on the verge of legalizing pot, so long as a certain Congressman from MD's Eastern Shore does not succeed in derailing DC's decision. There is a call for a boycott of MD Eastern Shore products due to his interference.

Drugs
Police/Legal/Prisons

The hemp/cannabis legalization parade coming down 17th st

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