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Native Americans, allies march on Washington Football Team, demand racist name be changed

Submitted by Luke on Sun, 12/28/2014 - 17:00

On the 28th of December, Native Americans and allies from many communities marched on the final home game of the Washington Football Team. The demand was simple: that the team change their racist name and mascot. The name originated as a reference to bounties paid to mercenaries and vigilantes for the scalps of murdered Native American men, women, and children. At one point the bounty reached $200-in 1800's dollars. To this day it is still deemed "culturally acceptable" to treat Indigenous people as "unpersons," according to multiple rally speakers. Thus, this is the one time the use of racist names and mascots in sports is still widely accepted.

Video from the protest at Fedex Field

Race/Racism

Two arrested in lockdown at Lusby offices of Dominion contractor over gas export

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 12/03/2014 - 13:58

On the morning of Dec 3, two member of We Are Cove Point locked down at the offices of IHI/Kiewit, a top contractor on Dominion's LNG/fracked gas export project at Cove Point. This was the third day in a row of action in Calvert County to stop Dominion's plans to export fracked gas out of the old, mostly unused gas import plant at Cove Point on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. Dominion is in the early stages of a massive rebuild and expansion of the plant to handle large-scale export of fracked gas.

Environment/Food/Health

40+ rally in cold rain outside Cove Point gas export site

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 12/02/2014 - 13:55

On the 2nd of December, opponents of Dominion Resources plans for fracked gas export out of Cove Point, MD showed up outside the "offsite A" construction area off MD 2-4 and Cove Point Road. Over 40 people showed up in cold rain to demand that Lusby and Cove Point not become "sacrifice areas" for energy export.

Environment/Food/Health

Protesters on Dominion's doorstep-We Are Cove Point photo

We are Cove Point blockades Solomons pier construction site, 7 arrests

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:14

On the 1st of December, two residents of Lusby, MD and 5 supporters were arrested in Solomons, MD blocking the gate of Dominion's "offsite B" construction site. Dominion's mostly Texan workforce is scrambling to complete this pier before a Dec 16 moratorium on construction in the water that lasts until mid-March. The Solomons pier is intended for loading "megaloads" from barges onto trucks to travel to Dominion's fracked gas export site at Cove Point, MD.

Youtube video posted by We Are Cove Point and Popular resistance

Environment/Food/Health

We are Cove Point photo of gate blockade

Fur-free Friday pickets Furrier's Row, storms Miller's Furs

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 11/28/2014 - 18:49

Black Friday is also known as Fur Free Friday. On Fur Free Friday, Nov 28, 2014, animal rights protesters marched around the fur shops around the DC-MD line, including Neiman-Marcus, Saks 5th Ave, Dior, and Bloomingdales. Afterwards everyone pretended to disperse, then some of them reassembled and stormed into Miller's Furs in Bethesda, MD.

Video of march through "Furrier's Row"

Video of protesters storming Miller's Furs

Animal Rights

3rd protest of fracking/gas export at Dominion pier site in Solomons, MD, One arrested

Submitted by Luke on Mon, 11/10/2014 - 15:54

On the 10th of November, opponents of exporting fracked gas out of Cove Point, MD returned to Dominion's pier construction site in nearby Solomons, MD site for the 3rd time in 8 days. Protesters arrived at 6AM and confronted trucks entering the site. Near the end of the protest,Leslie Garcia from Lusby, MD was arrested for attempting to deliver an eviction notice to the site. Lusby is immediately south of Cove Point and caualties there are expected if there is a serious accident with the proposed LNG export plant.

Video of the picket, civil disobedience, and die-in

Environment/Food/Health

Protesting at the Dominion pier site in the dawn fog

11 arrests at 2nd civil disobediance in two days at Solomons construction site for gas export

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 19:47

On the 4th of November, activists opposing building a fracked gas export facility at Cove Point staged the second civil disobediance in two days at Solomons, MD. Six activists entered the construction site for the pier needed to unload equipment for Cove Point and climbed to the top of the highest dirt pile on the site with a banner before being arrested. There were five other arrests including two photographers.

Video of the civil disobediance at Solomons on Nov 4

Environment/Food/Health

MD Governor O'Malley gets "golden pillow" for sleeping on fracked gas export

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 09/30/2014 - 22:18

On the 30 of September, MD Governor O'Malley received an award from University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Outside, Calvert County residents and local environmental activists presented a lookalike with a different award. He got a golden pillow for sleeping on the job, at least that part concerning environmental protection. For all that fluffy pillow talk of loving the Earth, O'Malley is the governor who approved the ICC highway in MD, and many fear he will do the same for Dominion's proposal to export fracked gas from Cove Point.

Video featuring "Golden Pillow" presentation and disruption of the "real" presentation

Environment/Food/Health

"O'Malley" gettting the golden pillow for sleeping on the job of protecting Calvert County from Dominion Resources's proposal to export fracked gas out of Cove Point on the Bay.

Extreme rains put Beach Dr under two feet of water in MD

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 22:36

On the 12th of August, rain fell at thunderstorm intensity from early morning until mid-afternoon. That evening at almost 6PM, Beach Drive near Kensington Parkway was submerged under about two feet of water. Nearby residents told the TV News they had never seen anything like it.

Video of flooded Beach Drive on 8-12

Environment/Food/Health
Local News/Neighborhoods

Performance Bicycle refusing to sell bikes or bike frames to buyers without ID

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 06/19/2014 - 15:57

Performance Bicycle is a national chain with outlets in the DC area in Montgomery County, MD. They tell me they will not sell complete bikes or frames to people unwilling to present identification. Their advice was to buy used when I asked them where they refer potential customers without drivers licenses or ID.

When I contacted City Bikes, by comparison, they said ID was only required for test rides, where it would be needed to find the rider if the bike was stolen.

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