Trump Protests in Lower Manhattan: Pro and Con
A photo essay
Trump was taken out a side entrance before all that press even knew he was out of the building...
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NYC Climate Action to Stop Dirty Banks
A photo essay
Jo Freeman captures the protest from the streets...
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“Bigger Than Roe” was Smaller Than Usual in DC
A photo essay
Pro-choice protestors gathered in different cities all over the country on January 22, 2023. This was exactly 50 years after the Supreme Court declared in Roe v. Wade that state laws that denied a woman the right to choose an abortion were a violation of her Constitutional right to privacy. ...
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Biden and Pelosi Speak at NAN’s MLK Day Breakfast
A photo essay
President Biden and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi were the featured speakers at the annual MLK day breakfast sponsored by the National Action Network....
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January 6 Voting Rally in DC
A photo essay
Last September, right-wing rallies demanded “Justice for J6.” Last week, left-wing rallies were held on January 6 in support of democracy....
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Statewide Democratic Candidates Rally in Brooklyn
A photo essay
The Democratic candidates for all five of New York’s statewide offices on the 2022 ballot rallied the troops in downtown Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon before election day. They were all incumbents seeking re-election. ...
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Historic Women’s Rally in NYC Five Days Before the Election
A photo essay
Seven top Democratic women and one man spoke at a Women’s Vote rally at Barnard College on November 3. All but one were New York elected officials. Many were “firsts” in their jobs. The sheer number of women officials was historic by itself. This rally illustrated that having many women ...
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Protests at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings
A photo essay
It was noisy in downtown DC as several groups protested at the annual meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....
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The “Women’s Wave” Flowed in DC on October 8
A photo essay
The theme in 2022 was water. Marchers want to see a feminist blue wave elect more pro-choice Democrats. That was purely implicit as no one mentioned Democrats or the Democratic Party, though several signs castigated Republicans. The Supreme Court’s decision that laws regulating abortion shall be left to the states ...
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Labor (Day) Parade in New York City
A photo essay
The AFL-CIO held its first Labor Parade since 2019. It’s always held on the Saturday after Labor Day. (Even union members want three-day weekends). This year’s theme was Workers Leading, Workers Rising.
The Grand Marshall was US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh. He was joined in the front line by New ...
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Continuous Protest outside the Supreme Court
A photo essay
Thousands of people congregated outside the Supreme Court on June 24, shortly after the Court announced that it was overturning Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision had held that states could not regulate women’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus.
People came and went throughout the ...
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Poor People’s Campaign Rallies on Capitol Hill
A photo essay
Demographically, there were more oldsters than youngsters. Children were few and far between. They were about evenly split between Black and white, with a heavy sprinkling of Hispanics. ...
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