Tag: ukraine
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“Good Trouble” in honor of Representative John Lewis
17Jul2025 Rally in honor of John “Good Trouble” Lewis. An inspiring hero for our times. So how’s Trump doing at his second term’s first half-year mark? Ehh, not so hot! Overall approval rating is currently 40%, down a point from last month. Disapproval rating is 56%. His strongest issue is immigration, clocking in at 46%…
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Rally at Senator McCormack’s
19May2025 Miriam Oppenhiemer Co-Coordiantor of PJSN and Coordinator of Mondays @ McCormick’s Again, this is why the Olympics should refuse to hold their games in Los Angeles in 2028. Heck, this is why foreign tourism has dropped like a rock. U.S.-born citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed while at…
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50501 Protest
19Apr2025 Had a discussion about NATO expansion recently. I believed, along with groups like Code Pink, that this was provocative and helped to start the initial invasion of Crimea in 2014 and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. I changed my mind about that a few months later. First, let’s get the Code Pink…
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“Hands Off” Protest
5Apr2025 The march from Philadelphia City Hall to the Liberty Bell. On April 2nd, President Trump applied a series of tariffs to most of our trading partners. Cambodia gets hit with 49% while China pays 34% (This was later raised to 145%). Taiwan, allegedly an ally of the US, pays 32%. As Trump is a…
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Rallies 3-14 & 3-17
Fridays@Fettermens & pro-Mahmoud Khalil We started off lined up along Chestnut St in front of Senator Fettermen’s office. If there’s a phrase for these first few weeks of the 2nd Trump term as president, I think it’ll be FAFO, (eff) Around and Find Out! This poor fellow thought he’d “own the libs” by voting for…
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Women’s March 2025
18Jan2025 Washington DC At Farragut Square, about a mile & a quarter from the Lincoln Memorial, where the march ended up.In the Trump White House Archive (covering his first term), the title is “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” As he begins his second term, how actually good was the President at keeping promises? Ehh, not so…
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Rally to dismantle deportation system
18Dec2024 Protesters want the Biden administration to take steps to dismantle the US deportation system before Trump takes office. About a hundred immigration activists and supporters met in the shadow of the Liberty Bell on Wednesday to demand that President Joe Biden use his remaining time in office to take apart the nation’s deportation mechanisms.…
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Pro-Palestinian Demonstration
26Apr2024 Our usual line-up on the sidewalk in front of Senator Fetterman’s office. The Friday@Fetterman’s group has a website here. There was indeed some civil disobedience on April 11th that resulted in a dozen arrests. There were about 50 people in the demonstration as a whole, but only a dozen were arrested fo their action.…