Who Says They Don’t Protest In DC: Protest Year In Review

Below is a month-by-month video review of activism, primarily in the Washington, DC region. If you think there are no protests in DC this video will disabuse of that thought.

In fact, it was a busy year of protests on a wide range of issues. If these videos were shown on the commercial media or covered regularly by the corporate press it would look like the United States was in revolt. Luke who made the video is based in DC but he cannot cover all the protests that go on here. For example, few protests inside of Congress are included in this video, even though there have been many.

Highlights of the past year include Black Lives Matter, the Baltimore Uprising, the TPP, the Pope, the climate protests and more. Below the video is a list of the protests covered by Luke, a DC independent media maker.

Luke is primarily covering DC-area protests. In reality, many cities across the country have regular protests on the economy, climate, racism, wars, low wages and more. In the last couple of years as pipelines and other carbon infrastructure is being put in place we are also seeing protests outside of urban areas.

When we are in the midst of the struggle, even if we are aware of many protests, we often can still not see how active the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice is.

January

New Year’s Day Black Lives Matter at Wheaton Plaza

No to the Keystone XL protest at White House

Code Pink disrupts the GOP’s Congressional takeover victory party

Code Pink at Cheney’s house, one arrest

Gitmo opening anniversary march

Black Lives Matter marches right into MPD’s headquarters

National Mayor’s Winter Meeting hit by Black Lives Matter protesters

Protest at DOJ demands Darren Wilson go to prison for murder

February

Cove Point crane sit

March on 7D in Anacostia

Richmond-Dominions’s headquarters blockaded over gas export and pipelines

March

AIPAC protests

Shutting down 14th and U after cops kill man in Metro tunnel

anti-TPP action in Congress

BXE disrupts FERC monthly meeting over Cove Point

March 21 antiwar march

Pro-TPP Senator Wyden’s fundraiser chased away

Anti-gentrification protest at State of the District address

April

Fracking moratorium demo in Annapolis(this ended in partial victory)

DC Bike Party goes to Cherry Blossoms-at night

Cherry blossoms by daylight

Gyrocopter flies to US Capitol

IMF protests and IMF’s Greenwash concert

Ecuadorians protest at the World Bank

Big union “trojan horse” march against TPP

TPP “crazy train” against fast-track on the Hill

March2Justice from NYC to DC (Black Lives Matter)

Battle of Baltimore begins with stadium shutdown, failed attempt to kettle

Battle of Baltimore-cop car burns, Ace Cash Express (payday lender where legal)looted instead of looting

DC march to demand DC cops out of Baltimore

May

Mayday in Baltimore and the defeat of the curfew

Bike Party

FERC tries to evade protesters by moving up meeting, fails

Third Siege of FERC begins

Tripod on N Cap behind FERC] FERC entrance blockades

ANGA (gas lobby) stormed by gas export protesters

Calvert County residents march on Dominion’s gas export site

June

Pride Week bike Party

Clarendon Cup bike race

Pride Parade-Stonewall mentioned 15 minutes from end

TPP protest on Capitol Hill

Black Lives Matter march on City Center condo project

Museum Square residents protest planned mass evictions

Rock Creek after heavy storm

March for the victims of the Charleston Masssacre

Street blockade resists, punishes homeless camp raid in Baltimore

Skanska exec gets home demo over U-VA animal lab project

July

July 4 cannabis parade

Occupy funeral remembers 3 fallen activists

Bike Party

Apache Stronghold sacred run and march against McCain’s Oak Flat copper mine

Shell No! kayak blockade against shell drillship in Seattle rammed by police boats

August

Protest at National Airport against shipment of animals to vivisection by Delta/Air France

Shutting down Chinatown(etc) for Mike Brown 1 year later

Bike Around the Bomb

Bike Party

Blackout DC shuts down I-395

Protest against Dominion on Cove Point beach

5 hour lockdown at SecState Kerry’s HOUSE over Enbridge tar sands pipeline

Mayor Bowser jeered for proposed increase in police searches in crime bill

September

“Southern Heritage” Rally disrupted, confederate flags burned and ripped up

No New Permits fast at FERC begins

Code Pink protests Cheney, Cheney supporters assault Code Pink banner holder inside

Code Pink counterprotests Donald Trump/Ted Cruz rally at Capitol

Skanska office protest: No New Animal Lab campaign (U-Wa vivisection lab)

Bike Party

NCNR marches from World Bank to White House, blockades press entrance

March from ICE detention center to Catholic climate change vigil for Pope arrives

The Pope addresses the Capitol, partially on climate change-as seen from rally jumbotron

Breaking the No New Permits fast at FERC

Massive march for Museum Square tenants as eviction deadline is defied (this looks like a probable victory)

Shell ABANDONS offshore arctic drilling after dry hole, protests

October

TPP protests in Atlanta-cancer patient arrested

TPP finalized-fight is ON to stop ratification!

Anti-TPP march on API

March on Monsanto targets TPP

Bike party-Wheelies

March on 7D in Anacostia, Mayor Bowser’s crime bill stalls next day

High Heel Race

Showdown with neo-Nazi National Policy Institute at press club

November

Banner hang at Bank of America Stadium in N Carolina against Dominion’s Cove Point gas export plant

Keystone KL defeated-protest WORKS!

Massive youth march/blockade against climate chaos

Bike Party: “riding the arch” riders pass under upraised arms between two bikes

Protest against Saudi executions-and Saudi support for ISIS/Daesh hours before Paris attacks

Vigil for France

USTR toilet-papered against TPP

LED torchlight parade storms Morgan-Stanley against TPP

Symbolic TPP text burned at Phillipine Embassy

Transgender activists blockade Wal-Mart

Black Friday Wal-Mart protest (the time to strike is now!)

Black Friday fur protests storm Neiman-Marcus, Miller’s Furs

Climate protesters (COP 21 climate summit) defy Paris protest ban

Global Climate March in DC

December

Protesters dragged out of corporate event at COP21 by undercover cops

Protest deters, drives off “deer removal” in Rock Creek Park for night

Bike Party in the Mass ave tunnel

People’s Climate rescue brings rescue raft to White House

Koran-burners shut down at the White House

Rally against killer security guards at Marbury Plaza in Anacostia

Anacostia residents protest at slumlord’s home over illegal attempts to evict Congress Heights

Homeless Memorial March with casket remembers 41 who died this year on the streets of DC

Get ready for 2016!