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BY GREG OLMSTED – On October 18, 2025 hundreds of thousands of protesters in DC and seven million ‘average Joes and unicorns’ across the country rallied for democracy.
Why are protesters wearing costumes? Read about it here.
Want more information about the No Kings! protest? Good articles in the Wall Street Journal here and here. And in the Washington Post here and here.
Do you want to join the next rally? Visit Indivisible.org.
BY GREG OLMSTED – On May 1, 2025, the Editorial Board of The New York Times wrote “There is a way forward: how to defeat Trump’s power grab.” Read their editorial here. ‘We the People’ can stop Trump’s power grab. Join us!
Today the Wall Street Journal published their investigation of Trump’s illegal deportation of Carlos Uzcategui to a notorious El Salvador concentration camp. See WSJ video here. Also today, a judge in Texas (appointed by Trump) ruled that his use of the wartime act for deportations is illegal (NYT here). Trump and his accomplices deportation of Mr. Uzcatequi was ILLEGAL. And cruel.
How many other innocent people have been illegally deported to concentration camps in El Salvador by Trump and his accomplices without due process? Will Trump start ‘disappearing’ U.S. citizens, too?
100s of protests were held today (NYT here and WP here.) The protests include lawyers who turned out in suits and ties to protest Trump’s attacks on the legal system (NYT here). See my photos of D.C. protesters here.
Read the New York Times editorial. Join the protest!
BY GREG OLMSTED – On April 19, 2025, a second wave of protests against President Donald Trump swept across the United States. “Marches in Midtown Manhattan filled 15 blocks on Madison Avenue.” (The New York Times here) “From Wyoming to Washington and Mississippi to Manhattan, protesters at hundreds of rallies in small towns and big cities gathered Saturday to denounce President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy moves, the second day of mass action this month as opposition to the administration continued to coalesce.” (Washington Post here). See the protest in New York City here.
By GREG OLMSTED – On April 5, 2025, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered across the country to send a message to the world that “we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies.” (quote from INDIVISIBLE). Americans at the Washington Monument, National Mall, Washington, D.C. sent a clear message to Trump, Musk and the GOP that we are building an “opposition movement against the looting of our country.” Join us at INDIVISIBLE. Enjoy posters from the rally here.
By GREG OLMSTED – On February 4, 2025, lawmakers, watchdog groups, and patriots gathered in front of the Treasury Building in DC to protest Elon Musk’s access to taxpayers funds: the biggest privacy and security breach in American history. Elon Musk and Trump have seized control of the U.S. Treasury payments system. This is the first protest of many! Hear Rep. Jamie Raskin’s emotional response here.
By GREG OLMSTED — On January 13, 2024, I snapped this photo of a father embracing his son and daughter in Washington, D.C. They were fortunate to be in the United States and not in Gaza because according to Wikipedia: “By late April 2024 it was estimated that Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of bombs over Gaza, surpassing the bombing of Dresden, Hamburg, and London combined during World War II.” Most of these bombs were made by the United States and given to Israel. Israel then bombed homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, places of worship and destroyed Gaza. How many innocent men, women and children have died? Israel’s retributivism is barbaric, savage and cruel. Enough!
Watch: Scale of Gaza’s destruction before and after Israeli bombardments, Le Monde’s video desk (with Reuters), 12 November 2024. Watch here.
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to a war crime: “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged,” Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, Human Rights Watch, 14 November, 2024. Read here.
Also read the UN Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, 20 September 2024. Read here.
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By GREG OLMSTED – On October 7, 2022, thousands of people gathered in Folger Park, Washington, D.C. and marched to Union Square, near the U.S. Capitol’s reflecting pool. It was a beautiful Autumn day for a pro-choice march. The abortion rights activists held protests later at the homes of several Supreme Court Justices, who overturned Roe vs. Wade. You can make waves too. Vote in the midterm elections. Your vote will help determine which party controls Congress and the future of abortion access. Watch pro-choice activists here.
By GREG OLMSTED – On January 7, 2022, President Biden addressed the Nation from Statuary Hall one year after rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. Courtesy of the Washington Post, watch President Biden’s full speech here.
By GREG OLMSTED — On October 11, 2019, Jane Fonda was arrested leading a climate crisis protest at the U.S. Capitol. Fifteen citizens concerned about climate change were arrested with her. Jane Fonda invites you to attend Fire Drill Fridays at 11am for the next four months. She said “Every Friday in front of the capitol we are having a fire drill where we will speak about a specific issue having to do with climate change.” Watch Fire Drill Fridays videos here.
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