May Day

Washington D.C.

Different groups with different themes marched from different places to rally together in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. The largest of these was organized by SEIU and CASA. Its theme was immigration, and current policies opposed to immigration. In addition to unions, religious and Latino groups were ...
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May Day

DC Climate March

April 29th 2017

Over one hundred thousand people marched down Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on April 29, the one-hundredth day of Trump’s presidency. As though to emphasize the cost of global warming, Mother Nature graced the day with temperatures over 90 degrees. During the morning people gathered on the Mall in front of ...
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DC Climate March

DC March for Science

April 22nd 2017

One of several hundred marches around the world, the March for Science in DC attracted about 20,000 participants despite a steady rain. People packed the Mall around the Washington Monument in the morning to listen to speakers and entertainers before marching off to the Capitol in the afternoon. Before the ...
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DC March for Science

Trump – Show your Taxes

Washington D.C. Protest on April 15th

Several thousand protesters gathered on the west lawn of the Capitol on April 15 to demand that President Trump release his tax returns.  The DC rally was one of many such protests held around the country on the traditional day for filing income taxes.  Organized by several progressive groups, the ...
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Trump – Show your Taxes

Pink Out the Capital

Roughly 500 women and a few men gathered on the east lawn of the US Capital building on March 29 to declare that "I Stand With Planned Parenthood."  The Senate was due to vote on a resolution to permit the states to deny federal family planning funds to health care ...
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Pink Out the Capital

City of Refuge

African immigrants protest Trump’s refugee policies, March 29-30

A few dozen people braved the rain to engage in a two day action for refugees on March 28 and 29. Organized by African Communities Together, they marched out of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan carrying inflated rafts to symbolize the means by which refugees often leave Africa. Their target ...
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City of Refuge

Tibetan National Uprising Day

Washington D.C.

Every year the Tibetan community in DC celebrates the 1959 uprising against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.  After the People's Republic of China was proclaimed in 1949, Communist troops moved into Tibet, incorporating it into China in 1950, leaving the Dalai Lama as the nominal leader.  On March 10, 1959, a national uprising demanded ...
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Tibetan National Uprising Day

Stand with Standing Rock Rally

Washington D.C.

Opponents  of the Dakota Access Pipeline protested at several dozen locations throughout the country as the Army Corps of Engineers granted the developer permission to lay the pipe under a reservoir in North Dakota.  The Standing Rock tribe of Sioux have been the primary opponents out of fear that leaks ...
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Stand with Standing Rock Rally

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2017: Something old, something new, much was borrowed, nothing blue

Women all over the world marched, rallied, and demonstrated in solidarity to commemorate International Women's Day. While the tradition was established a century ago, never before have so many women demonstrated in so many places in so many countries. To show solidarity, women wore red, whether they were demonstrating or ...
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International Women’s Day

Not My President’s Day

Monday February 20th

Over two dozen US cities saw anti-Trump protestors hit the streets for "Not My President's Day" demonstrations. In Trump's new home in Washington D.C. several hundred people rallied at Dupont Circle, then walked two miles to the White House. While the rally was in process a motorcyclist flying a Trump flag ...
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Not My President’s Day

No Ban on Muslims

Protests from D.C. on February 4th

Roughly five thousand people gathered at the edge of Lafayette park across from the White House on Sunday afternoon, February 4. They were protesting the ban on Muslims and refugees proposed by President Trump January 27. "No hate no fear, refugees are welcome here!" was the most popular chant. Most ...
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No Ban on Muslims

No to DeVos Rally

Roughly 500 people gathered in a park near the Senate on February 6 to ask for "one more vote" against confirming Betsy DeVos to be the next Secretary of Education. At the time of the rally, all 48 Democrats and 2 Republicans had vowed to vote against her confirmation.  The Senate ...
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No to DeVos Rally