Washington DC, May 1, 2017. Thousands of immigrant and refugee rights activists gathered with supporters at Dupont Circle for a march to Lafayette Park across from The White House. This years event was electrified with a sense of urgency in reaction to President Donald J. Trump's bigoted speeches and policies attacking immigrants and refugees. So far, our courts, street activists and regional governments have acted as a firewall against Trumpism's excesses. How long can we hold the line?

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

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, June 1, 2017. Around two hundred and fifty immigration rights activists from CASA and other human rights groups gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House for a rally, march and sitdown protest in response to rising repression by the Trump Administration. Over the past twelve days Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) has targeted and detained four prominent CASA members and threatened them with deportation and cruel family separations. The ICE actions are viewed by CASA and their allies as a systematic attack on the organization. Today's protest concluded with a peaceful civil disobedience sitdown on the sidewalk in front of the White House by twenty activists who were arrested and released after ritualistic prearranged processing by the U.S. Park Police.

Washington DC, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it. Ben Cohen of Our Revolution is on the mic.

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

Rockville, Maryland, September 13 2019. In a surprising show of strength around three hundred folks associated with various right wing xenophobic hate groups gathered here today for a "pro ICE" rally with speeches. ICE stands for Immigration And Customs Enforcement, a Federal police organization that rounds up immigrants for deportation. The right wingers were motivated to stage a rally in Montgomery County because they claim that our County Executive Marc Elrich is presiding over a "sanctuary county' that refuses to cooperate with ICE and is a hotbed of crime committed by "illegal aliens". None of this is true. The right wingers were met by a nearly equal number of local activists and politicians* who support their immigrant neighbors. Social justice groups who helped organize the counter protest included MoCo DSA, SURJ MoCo, Takoma Park Mobilization, Jews United For Justice, Our Revolution, CASA, Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Do The Most Good, various labor unions and other progressive groups. Montgomery County Police kept the two groups mostly separated but some officers engaged in annoying and completely unnecessary micromanagement of the protesters excercise of their 1st Amendment rights.

*Council members Hans Reimer, Craig Rice and Sidney Katz couldn't be bothered? Oops! I almost forgot that Andrew Friedson, who also was a no show was even on the Council.

Washington DC, The US Capitol grounds, November 30, 2017. Progressive activists and supporters gathered here for a "People's Filibuster" in opposition to a Republican tax plan designed to favor the rich at the expense of the working poor and middle class. If passed, the Trump endorsed legislation would add 1.5 trillion dollars to the national debt, strip the health care from 15 million Americans, rip off billions of dollars from Medicare for seniors and redistribute even more billions in wealth to the greedy, undeserving upper 1%. "Who could love such a plan?" asked one of the faith group speakers at the rally. "Satan!" was the reply from the crowd.

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.

25 October 2017. Juba: A member of UN anti-riot police from Nepal stands in formation during a visit of the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (not in the picture) to the UN Protections of Civilians (PoC) Juba, South Sudan, on October 25, 2017.

Internally Displaced People (IDP), mostly opposition supporters, organised a demonstration, shouted calls against the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and claimed help to the Donald Trump administration to bring back to the country the opposition leader, Riek Machar. The UN anti-riot police hat to intervene and evacuate Haley from the PoC.

As part of a one day visit to the country, Haley met also the President Salva Kiir and UN officials..

Before coming to South Sudan, Haley was in Ethiopia on the first stop of a three-nation tour that will end tomorrow in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net

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, 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, the evening of Thursday October 12, 2017. Around 50 peace activists and supporters associated with Move On, J Street, Win Without War, NIAC, Women's Action For New Directions, Code Pink and other groups gathered in front of the White House for an hour long rally with speeches to stop a war with Iran. President Trump is expected to "de-certify" the multilateral Iran deal that, at the very least, has been successful at interrupting the development of nuclear weapons by the Islamic State. Skilled diplomats and peace advocates worldwide worked very hard for over two years to get the Iran deal over the finish line in 2015. All objective observers, including generals and other 'national security' officials in Trump's administration, agree that Iran has lived up to their deal obligations. Still, our President, along with his ally Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is determined to end the United States participation in the agreement, risking runaway nuclear proliferation and a possible catastrophic war. Many of us on the ground tonight have been here before. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and more. It's remarkable that the foolish rush into yet another war that could and should be prevented is protested by so few. Stalwart peace activist, former diplomat and military veteran Colonel Ann Wright is on the mic.

Washington DC, Saturday June 30, 2018. Tens of thousands gathered in and around Lafayette Park near The White House to protest President Trump's cruel and inhumane policy of separating immigrant parents from their children at the US Mexico border and imprisoning them in cages. There were hundreds of similar protest events large and small staged all over the USA today.

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.

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

25 October 2017. Juba: Aerial view of the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba, South Sudan, during a visit by the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (not in the picture).

During the visit, a group of protesters, all displaced and opposition supporters, shouted calls against the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and claimed help to the Donald Trump administration to bring back to the country the opposition leader, Riek Machar. The UN anti-riot police hat to intervene and evacuate Haley from the PoC.

As part of a one day visit to the country, Haley met also the President Salva Kiir and UN officials..

Before coming to South Sudan, Haley was in Ethiopia on the first stop of a three-nation tour that will end tomorrow in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

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.

Members of the activist group Rise And Resist gathered a silent protest inside The Oculus at the World Trade Center, on January 6, 2020 holding protest signs, a banner reading "U.S. Immigration Policy Is A Crime", photographs of the children who have died in ICE custody, and photographs of the detention camps to object to Border Patrol and ICE treatment of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, calling on the Trump administration to immediately process all asylum seekers. (Photo by Erik McGregor)

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

25 October 2017. Juba: Internally Displaced People (IDP) demonstrate during the visit of the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (not in the picture), at the UN Protections of Civilians (PoC) Juba, South Sudan, on October 25, 2017.

The protesters, all opposition supporters, shouted calls against the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and claimed help to the Donald Trump administration to bring back to the country the opposition leader, Riek Machar. The UN anti-riot police hat to intervene and evacuate Haley from the PoC.

As part of a one day visit to the country, Haley met also the President Salva Kiir and UN officials..

Before coming to South Sudan, Haley was in Ethiopia on the first stop of a three-nation tour that will end tomorrow in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP - www.albertgonzalez.net

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.

March 25, 2025. Boston, MA.

HANDS OFF OUR PASSPORTS!

About 60 people marched around the Moakley Court House to show support for transgender people as a federal district court in Boston heard arguments from attorneys representing transgender and nonbinary Americans impacted by a new State Department policy requiring U.S. passports to reflect their sex assigned at birth, rolling back decades of State Department policy.

Following a January 2025 executive order from President Donald Trump barring people from updating the sex designation on their passports, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit challenging the State Department’s refusal to issue passports with accurate sex designations on behalf of seven transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people.

© 2025 Marilyn Humphries

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.

6 March 2018—Washington, DC—Morning, plenary, and early afternoon sessions of the 2018 National Bike Summit, held by the League of American Bicyclists.

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.

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 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.

Washington DC, January 30, 2018. Around twenty activists affiliated with Code Pink and other peace groups gathered in Union Station to celebrate the 17th Birthday of Ahed Tamimi. Ahed, a defiant Palestinian human rights activist, is in an Israeli jail for slapping an IDF soldier and other related charges. We hope Ahed* is released and reunited with her family soon.

*Ahed's mother Nariman was arrested hours after her daughter and is also currently residing in an Israeli jail on the occupied West Bank.

Expel Betsy DeVos, Destroyer of Education. Rise and Reist and UFT protest Trump's Secretary of Education NYC.

Washington DC, the evening of Thursday October 12, 2017. Around 50 peace activists and supporters associated with Move On, J Street, Win Without War, NIAC, Women's Action For New Directions and other groups gathered in front of the White House for an hour long rally with speeches to stop a war with Iran. President Trump is expected to "de-certify" the multilateral Iran deal that, at the very least, has been successful at interrupting the development of nuclear weapons by the Islamic State. Skilled diplomats and peace advocates worldwide worked very hard for over two years to get the Iran deal over the finish line in 2015. All objective observers, including generals and other 'national security' officials in Trump's administration, agree that Iran has lived up to their deal obligations. Still, our President, along with his ally Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is determined to end the United States participation in the agreement, risking runaway nuclear proliferation and a possible catastrophic war. Many of us on the ground tonight have been here before. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and more. It's remarkable that the foolish rush into yet another war that could and should be prevented is protested by so few.

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, 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.

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

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.

The protest took place outside the drive up entrance to Swissotel on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago. Heartland Alliance was holding its big annual gala dinner there.

The protesters say that Heartland is profiting off the incarceration of immigrant children. They say that these places are nothing but detention camps that are "ill equipped to handle the needs of immigrant children".These facilities are staffed by non-professionals. Anxiety and thoughts of suicide run high among the children. There are widespread allegations of physical and sexual abuse.

They say that Heartland Alliance is "in cahoots with big money". By the government proclaiming that certain people are illegal private industry - meaning places like Heartland - are making a profit off incarcerating these children.

For its part, Heartland, on its website, invites interested people to "Join us to protect the rights and dignity of immigrants and asylum seekers, and that Heartland "strongly oppose the actions of the current administration".

25 October 2017. Juba: Internally Displaced People (IDP) demonstrate during the visit of the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (not in the picture), at the UN Protections of Civilians (PoC) Juba, South Sudan, on October 25, 2017.

The protesters, all opposition supporters, shouted calls against the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and claimed help to the Donald Trump administration to bring back to the country the opposition leader, Riek Machar. The UN anti-riot police hat to intervene and evacuate Haley from the PoC.

As part of a one day visit to the country, Haley met also the President Salva Kiir and UN officials..

Before coming to South Sudan, Haley was in Ethiopia on the first stop of a three-nation tour that will end tomorrow in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / AFP - www.albertgonzalez.net

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 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.

Washington DC, the evening of Thursday October 12, 2017. Around 50 peace activists and supporters associated with Move On, J Street, Win Without War, NIAC, Women's Action For New Directions and other groups gathered in front of the White House for an hour long rally with speeches to stop a war with Iran. President Trump is expected to "de-certify" the multilateral Iran deal that, at the very least, has been successful at interrupting the development of nuclear weapons by the Islamic State. Skilled diplomats and peace advocates worldwide worked very hard for over two years to get the Iran deal over the finish line in 2015. All objective observers, including generals and other 'national security' officials in Trump's administration, agree that Iran has lived up to their deal obligations. Still, our President, along with his ally Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is determined to end the United States participation in the agreement, risking runaway nuclear proliferation and a possible catastrophic war. Many of us on the ground tonight have been here before. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and more. It's remarkable that the foolish rush into yet another war that could and should be prevented is protested by so few. Stalwart peace activist, former diplomat and military veteran Colonel Anne Wright is on the mic.

6 March 2018—Washington, DC—Morning, plenary, and early afternoon sessions of the 2018 National Bike Summit, held by the League of American Bicyclists.

Washington DC, June 1, 2017. Around two hundred and fifty immigration rights activists from CASA and other human rights groups gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House for a rally, march and sitdown protest in response to rising repression by the Trump Administration. Over the past twelve days Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) has targeted and detained four prominent CASA members and threatened them with deportation and cruel family separations. The ICE actions are viewed by CASA and their allies as a systematic attack on the organization. Today's protest concluded with a peaceful civil disobedience sitdown on the sidewalk in front of the White House by twenty activists who were arrested and released after ritualistic prearranged processing by the U.S. Park Police.

Chaos erupts as law enforcement officers deploys tear gas at possible exits trapping protesters on the Vine Expressway, in Center City Philadelphia, PA, on June 1, 2020. Moments earlier a BLM march breached a single vehicle police barrier to access the Expressway trough Center City.

( ©2020, Bastiaan Slabbers - All Rights Reserved - License content at REUTERS.

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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.

Annapolis, Maryland February 4, 2017. Around 500 Maryland activists and supporters mobilized by Progressive Maryland and other social justice and faith groups gathered at Lawyer's Mall for a rally and march around the Governor's Mansion. The focus of the event was the threat to the rights of Muslims, immigrants, LBGT folks, people of color and everybody else by the Trump Administration and Governor Larry Hogan's lack of action or even a spoken commitment to protect the citizens of his state.

Washington DC, the evening of Thursday October 12, 2017. Around 50 peace activists and supporters associated with Move On, J Street, Win Without War, NIAC, Women's Action For New Directions and other groups gathered in front of the White House for an hour long rally with speeches to stop a war with Iran. President Trump is expected to "de-certify" the multilateral Iran deal that, at the very least, has been successful at interrupting the development of nuclear weapons by the Islamic State. Skilled diplomats and peace advocates worldwide worked very hard for over two years to get the Iran deal over the finish line. All objective observers, including generals and other 'national security' officials in Trump's administration, agree that Iran has lived up to their deal obligations. Still, our President, along with his ally Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, is determined to end the United States participation in the agreement, risking runaway nuclear proliferation and a possible catastrophic war. Many of us on the ground tonight have been here before. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and more. It's remarkable that the foolish rush into yet another war that could and should be prevented is protested by so few.

25 October 2017. Juba: Internally Displaced People (IDP) demonstrate during the visit of the US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley (not in the picture), at the UN Protections of Civilians (PoC) Juba, South Sudan, on October 25, 2017.

The protesters, all opposition supporters, shouted calls against the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, and claimed help to the Donald Trump administration to bring back to the country the opposition leader, Riek Machar. The UN anti-riot police hat to intervene and evacuate Haley from the PoC.

As part of a one day visit to the country, Haley met also the President Salva Kiir and UN officials..

Before coming to South Sudan, Haley was in Ethiopia on the first stop of a three-nation tour that will end tomorrow in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net

Washington DC, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it.

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, March 6, 2017. Around 500 souls mobilized largely online on very short notice gathered in Lafayette Square in front of the White House to protest President Donald J. Trump's 'Muslim Travel Ban 2.0' enacted today. Der Gropenfuhrer's New Order was inked in his bunker without fanfare or press coverage save for an official photo. A similar but even more egregiously illegal January 27 edict ignited an explosion of massive protests nationwide and was decisively struck down by Federal courts. The protesters at today's event were all peaceful but stalwart activist-videographer "Luke" was roughed up and detained needlessly by Secret Service and other cops for bullshit DeploraBall charges already dismissed. Thank God that there were plenty of lawyers and photographers on the scene as witnesses until "Luke" was free to go. Know your rights. Download the ACLU Mobile Justice App and use it.