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Word of the day is soirée.
Martinazzi Square, Tualatin, Oregon
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 70-210mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Focal length: 80mm
Exposure: 1/500 sec. @ f/9, ISO 320
Media:
* The Daily Beast: "Mar-a-Lago Guests Spill Tacky Details of Trump’s Gatsby Bash," by Will Neal, November 1, 2025
Imagining the last creature Cricket the wirehaired pointer saw before she was retired from life in a gravel pit.
Tualatin Fred Meyer, 11:22 PM.
Media:
* The Guardian: "Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book," by Martin Pengelly, April 26, 2024
Washington DC, May 19, 2019. Around two hundred activists affiliated with Popular Resistance, Code Pink and other peace and justice groups marched from the Embassy Of Venezuela in Georgetown to Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to protest the Trump administrations failed attempt to pitch a coup against the lawfully elected government of that troubled country. Some of the participants in the march had occupied the Venezuela Embassy for 35 days until they were unlawfully evicted and arrested by the U.S. Secret Service. The global goal of the organizers of this action is to reignite a mass movement for peace and social justice and oppose our never ending wars, boundless militarism, nationalism and capitalism.
Washington DC, Friday September 20, 2019. Strike! On a beautiful late summer day thousands gathered in John Marshall Park and marched a short distance to the lawn of the US Capitol to protest the failure of Trump's Republican Party to deal with the coming climate emergency. The Republicans will now face a unified left that has finally connected the dots between environmental degradation, corporate capitalism, growing income inequality, racism, militarism and other structural evils of our society.
Oamaru Railway
Trump Had Documents That Never Leave Special Facilities
'No Area For Confusion': U.S. Classification System Designed Against Accidents
Attorney Shoots Down Trump’s ‘Insane’ New Document Defense
Lawrence: Only Way It Gets Worse For Trump Is To Be Charged
www.newsweek.com/trump-bought-mar-lago-crucial-detail-bar...
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest all gun violence including the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The mass shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been largely ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Washington DC, January 18, 2020. Around ten thousand folks gathered here today for the fourth Women's March to protest the disgraceful Presidency of the Forever Impeached Donald John Trump. Thumbs up to the organizers who staged a beautiful, well planned event and to the DC Police who kept a respectful distance.
May 2, 2019: Gala people vs. protesters. Expel Betsy DeVos, Destroyer of Education. Rise and Reist and UFT protest Trump's Secretary of Education NYC.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance*, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
*That's Margaret Flowers hoisting the right side of the sign.
Media:
* "Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle," by David S. Glosser, Politico Magazine, August 13, 2018
* Stephen Miller's uncle: Family were refugees," CNN, August 14, 2018
* "Trump Administration Angel of Darkness Stephen Miller Allegedly Wanted to Bomb Migrant Boats: Report," by Bess Levin, Vanity Fair, June 27, 2023
Stable Diffusion
Randy is celebrating Monuments today. While you're in DC, Randy ... don't forget to visit the latest addition to the collective consciousness!!!
The White House hemorrhaging had slowed a bit recently, but thanks to our "favorite" reality-TV villain, there's new attention on the former denizens of Trumpworld.
The We are Here challenge on August 9 2018 was: Monuments
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Special to Stable Diffusion) — Dr. Max Feelgood, the new head of the White House Medical Unit, is seen moving a night's worth of emergency medicine with his mind towards the White House ahead of the arrival of the newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump aboard Marine One.
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Number of White House Medical Unit personnel:
* 2001: 22 (Bush Administration I)
* 2005: 20 (Bush Administration II)
* 2010: 24 (Obama Administration I)
* 2015: ? (Obama Administration II)
* 2019: 60 (Trump Administration I)
* 2024: ? (Biden Administration I)
* 2025: ? (Trump Administration II) **
** 2/16/2025 Update: Will DOGE make staffing level cuts to the White House Medical Unit?
Media:
* Evaluation of the DoD Internal Controls Related to Patient Eligibility and Pharmaceutical Management Within the National Capital Region Executive Medicine Services, (PDF), Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense, Report No. DODIG‑2024‑044, January 8, 2024
* Apparently the Trump White House Medical Unit Was Handing Pills Out Like Skittles, by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, January 25, 2024
* Free Surgeries and Prescriptions: White House Staff Got Access to Military Health Care Despite Being Ineligible, by Patricia Kime, Military.com, January 16, 2024
* The Strange Saga of JFK and the Original 'Dr. Feelgood', by Peter Keating, Intelligencer, New York, November 22, 2013
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
Washington DC, January 18, 2020. Around ten thousand folks gathered here today for the fourth Women's March to protest the disgraceful Presidency of the Forever Impeached Donald John Trump. Thumbs up to the organizers who staged a beautiful, well planned event and to the DC Police who kept a respectful distance.
Washington DC, the evening of July 27, 2017. Around 250 healthcare justice activists and supporters were mobilized online on just two hours notice to a rally with speeches on the U.S. Capitol grounds to protest the impending Senate vote to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Inside, Trump's Republicans were desperately plotting and horse trading to conclude a deal to steal healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and give the very richest in our society a huge tax cut. Thumbs up to Move On, the other sponsoring organizations and all of the sensible good folks who showed up when it mattered. We fight on. Next up single-payer Medicare for all.
Postscript. Around 1:30 AM Thursday morning ACA repeal failed by a vote of 49-51. Republicans John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined with all of the Senate Democrats to defeat the measure. Obamacare remains the law of the land.
Washington DC, The National Mall, September 16, 2017. Around a thousand supporters of President Donald J. Trump gathered here today for an event they rather unfortunately named "The Mother Of All Rallies". The organizers boasted that they would pitch an event that would dwarf the massive anti-Trump Women's March that was staged the day after Trump's poorly attended Inauguration. There were militia and other anti-government hate groups in attendance but DC is not crazy Charlottesville, Virginia so there were no open carry firearms. I did observe some participants carrying metal rods and wooden walking sticks clearly intended to be used as weapons. Some participants sported Nazi, Neo-Nazi skinhead and other white supremacist tattoos and clothing. Most of the speakers stuck to the same tired old far right wing talking points; undocumented immigrants are "illegal aliens" and should be kicked out of the country, the media is mostly "fake news", Hillary should be "locked up", folks who refuse to "unite" behind Trump are "un-American" etc.
Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, April 14, 2018. Around two hundred activists associated with Answer Coalition, Code Pink, Veterans For Peace, Socialist Alternative and other peace groups gathered in front of the White House to protest the latest wave of intensified bombing in Syria by the U.S.A., Great Britain and France. In a brief address to the nation last night President Donald J. Trump suggested that the bombing of Syria could be an open ended affair of uncertain duration. The neocolonialist coalition bombing last night near Damascus and other cities was supposedly a retaliation for the evil Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's most recent use of chemical weapons. An International inspection team arrived in Damascus just yesterday and have not yet determined the source of the chemical attack. This morning, President Trump foolishly declared "mission accomplished". Heard that one before?
Postscript. Reporters Robert Fisk from The Independent of Great Britain and Pearson Sharp of One America News
were unable to confirm that the alleged chemical attack had indeed occurred when they visited the site and the surrounding neighborhood in Douma, Syria.
Washington DC, September 30, 2017. Thousands rallied and marched here today to protest the racism of the Trump administration and to celebrate the culture of black women. The MPD kept a respectful low profile. The event was peaceful, orderly and there were no arrests.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, June 25, 2017. Around one hundred supporters of various "Alt-Right" affiliated groups gathered on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial for a "Free Speech Rally". Speakers included Richard Spencer, Augustus Invictus, Nathan Damigo, James Allsup, Baked Alaska, Rep. Clay Higgins and others. DC United Against Hate staged an opposing event just up the hill on the sidewalk and steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The Park Police did a fine job of keeping the two groups separated. There was no violence and no arrests.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General* and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace groups who organized the action on very short notice.
Jane Fonda on the mic.
*Who was a murderous motherfucker just like many other Generals, American and otherwise, all over the world. Time to retire Generals and other killers everywhere, I say.
Werk for Peace organized this anti-Trump dance protest that started at the Trump International Hotel and ended at the White House on February 3, 2017.
Washington DC, Saturday January 11, 2020. Around 120 peace and justice activists mobilized by Amnesty International, Code Pink, The Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights And Dissent and other groups rallied in Lafayette Park in front of the White House to protest the 18th Anniversary of the continuing barbaric, sadistic, cynical and completely unnecessary incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our Disappointer In Chief President Barack Obama failed year after year to honor his promises to close this shameful facility, free the remaining inmates who were long ago cleared for release and transfer the rest of the men to incarceration in the United States where, hopefully, they can get more humane treatment and the due process under the laws they are entitled to. Our current Republican President Donald J. Trump promised not only to keep the Guantanamo prison complex open but to load it up with "bad dudes", Thankfully, the latter threat turned out to be just another one of his countless broken campaign promises. Still, it is extremely unlikely that anybody currently in Gitmo will be leaving until we Remove or Defeat 45. After the rally with speeches and some rousing live music we marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel where our sad yearly gathering dispersed.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, June 28, 2017. Around 200 folks gathered outside of the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue to protest President Donald J. Trump's first fundraiser for his 2020 Presidential reelection run. If you are a corrupt public official who wants to raise money from rich donors seeking access why not crank up the money-go-round as early as possible, OK? Dinner at this event started at $35,000.
Washington DC, November 28, 2017. Around a hundred activists, politicians and supporters gathered in front of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a rally with speeches to protest President Trump's appointment of Mick Mulvaney as director of that agency. Mulvaney, who has called the CFPB a "sad, sick joke" is butting aside acting director Leandra English who was appointed by outgoing director Richard Cordray. Later today a Federal Judge recently appointed by Trump decided that Mulvaney's appointment was legal and that English had to step aside. The CFPB, established during the Obama administration, was the brainchild of progressive stalwart Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Over the years the CFPB has returned billions of dollars to consumers who were ripped off by Wall Street banksters, payday loan scammers, "education" swindlers, car title pirates and other low-lifers.
Washington DC, The White House, February 8, 2017. Around 300 climate justice activists and supporters gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in an emergency action to protest the Army Corps Of Engineer's sudden granting of the required easement to proceed with the construction of the last leg of the Dakota Access pipeline. The Corp's action is widely regarded as a capitulation to the climate change denying Trump regime and its cronies and fellow investors in the fossil fuel industry. Facing down militarized police and corporate mercenary violence, brave Native American water protectors and their allies on the ground at Standing Rock have vowed to stage a non-violent 'last stand' against the danger posed to the Missouri River by the pipeline that may be drilled under it any day now.
Washington DC, Friday September 20, 2019. Strike! On a beautiful late summer day thousands gathered in John Marshall Park and marched a short distance to the lawn of the US Capitol to protest the failure of Trump's Republican Party to deal with the coming climate emergency. The Republicans will now face a unified left that has finally connected the dots between environmental degradation, corporate capitalism, growing income inequality, racism, militarism and other structural evils of our society.
Washington DC, Friday September 20, 2019. Strike! On a beautiful late summer day thousands gathered in John Marshall Park and marched a short distance to the lawn of the US Capitol to protest the failure of Trump's Republican Party to deal with the coming climate emergency. The Republicans will now face a unified left that has finally connected the dots between environmental degradation, corporate capitalism, growing income inequality, racism, militarism and other structural evils of our society.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Dumb Donnie seems to have finally found a business he's good at; selling red hats and other merchandise to the suckers who put him into office. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, July 6 2019. A motley collection of about three hundred folks affiliated with various far right wing groups gathered here today under the banner of "#DemandFreeSpeech*" for a rally with speeches. Mostly the speakers whined into the mic about being kicked off of social media for unsportsmanlike conduct. As I wandered around Freedom Plaza I saw pizza-gaters and other nut job conspiracy devotees, Roger Stone fans, anti-semites, Christian Supremicists, gun fetishists, Proud Boys and unapologetic racists. What unites all of them is their obvious love of their leader, President Donald J. Trump. Over in nearby Pershing Park I found over a thousand gathered in opposition to Trump and his facist supporters. After hours of speeches there was some great live music and dancing. Thumbs up to Black Lives Matter DC, MDC-DSA, #AllOutDC, @DCDefend and the other groups who made it rock.
*Theirs, not yours.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered in front on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets and later marched to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.
May 9, 2019: Expel Betsy DeVos, Destroyer of Education. Rise and Reist and UFT protest Trump's Secretary of Education NYC.
Washington DC, January 4, 2020. On January 3, 2020 President Trump acting on the flimsiest of pretexts (and without any Congressional consultation...) ordered the Pentagon to kill the top Iranian General and others in a drone strike near the Baghdad Iraq airport. This act is likely to set off a cycle of retribution that could end in a regional war. Trump ran on ending the stupid wars of his Presidential predecessors but that was, like most of his other promises, a brazen lie. Now forever impeached, he has predictably resorted to acts of brutality to distract the electorate and justify his continued governance in a time of national emergency. DC and seventy other cities were not buying it. The protests that erupted nationwide say loudly and clearly that violence and war are not the answer.
The DC protest gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House for a rally with speeches and then marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. I estimate crowd size at 800 or so. Thanks to Answer Coalition, DC Black Lives Matter, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, Metro DSA and other peace and justice groups who organized the action on very short notice.
Washington DC, January 18, 2020. Around ten thousand folks gathered here today for the fourth Women's March to protest the disgraceful Presidency of the Forever Impeached Donald John Trump. Thumbs up to the organizers who staged a beautiful, well planned event and to the DC Police who kept a respectful distance.
Washington DC, March 9, 2017. Native American water protectors established a beautiful tipi camp on the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the White House as a staging ground for a rally and march the following day. Thousands are expected to gather at the Army Corps Of Engineers office near Chinatown and march to the White House in protest of the Trump regime's violation of Native American treaty rights. The water protectors and their allies are now focused on much more than just the preventing the Dakota Access Pipeline. They're organizing for the long haul to take down the entire fossil fuel industry and the global corporate culture of extractivism that supports it. Stock tip of the day? If you still own fossil fuel securities, sell. No future, no future, no future for you!
Washington DC, Saturday January 11, 2020. Around 120 peace and justice activists mobilized by Amnesty International, Code Pink, The Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights And Dissent and other groups rallied in Lafayette Partk in front of the White House to protest the 18th Anniversary of the continuing barbaric, sadistic, cynical and completely unnecessary incarceration without charge or trial of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Our Disappointer In Chief President Barack Obama failed year after year to honor his promises to close this shameful facility, free the remaining inmates who were long ago cleared for release and transfer the rest of the men to incarceration in the United States where, hopefully, they can get more humane treatment and the due process under the law they are entitled to. Our current Republican President Donald J. Trump promised not only to keep the Guantanamo prison complex open but to load it up with "bad dudes", Thankfully, the latter threat turned out to be just another one of his countless broken campaign promises.Still, it is extremely unlikely that anybody currently in Gitmo will be leaving until we Remove or Defeat 45. After the rally with speeches and some rousing live music we marched to the infamous Trump International Hotel where our sad yearly gathering dispersed.
Andy Worthington on the mic.
Washington DC, Sunday January 29, 2017. On the ninth day of Donald J. Trump's presidency tens of thousands hit the streets in front of the White House to protest his cruel, bigoted and unConstitutional ban on immigration and travel from seven Muslim majority countries. A Federal judge has already issued a stay on the ban but Homeland Security will reportedly not honor it. Will the lawyers save us? The crowd gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue and adjoining streets, later marching to the U.S. Capitol. The crowd was diverse in every way and peaceful. There were no arrests.