Fired Federal Workers Sit-In on the Capitol Steps
Fired Federal Workers from the Fork Off Coalition participated in a sit-in at the Capitol on May 20 to make their illegal terminations more visible and in calling to be…
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The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting in the Age of Trump
In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands…
“Fork Off Coalition” Calls for Federal Workers Rehiring
For the tenth consecutive week the “Fork Off Coalition” of united fired federal workers held their “Job Fair” by visiting Senators’ offices on May 13 calling on representatives to do…
Tesla Takedown Continues Impacting Musk
This week’s “Dance Against DOGE” and “Tesla Takedown” protest at the company’s showroom here featured crowd-pleasing music and a symphony of car horns responding to “Honk if you hate Musk”…
A Sit-In to Head off More Drastic Cuts
Early this morning on April 27, Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) began a sit-in on the Capitol steps to call attention to tomorrow morning’s…
President Bankrupt And a Country (and World) Coming Apart at the Seams
From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this…
A Look at USAID From the Inside
What put the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with an annual budget hovering at just about 1% of federal spending, at the top of Elon Musk’s budget-cutting target list?…
The Costs of Trump’s War on Federal Workers
The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
Congress, Do Your Job – No Tax Breaks for Billionaires!
“Do your job!” and “Families Over Billionaires” were the operative messages loudly chanted to Congress outside the Capitol at a morning rally calling attention to the Trump Musk/DOGE evisceration of…
The Mail Must Get Through, DOGE? “Hell No!”
This July the US Postal Service (USPS) will celebrate its 250th anniversary making it older than the country. Once again it is facing a call for privatization, this time from…
With CFPB Closed-Now the Fox Guards Your Nest Egg
A cold and wet day could not deter recently fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees along with other federal workers from their weekly picketing outside of the bureau’s closed…
A Dance Party to Take Tesla Down as Protests Grow
Every weekend activists are protesting outside Tesla showrooms as part of the nationwide #TakeDownTesla movement to send Elon Musk the only kind of message he understands: Financial. Since heading up…
USIP Attacked and Shuttered by DOGE
An important part of the intellectual, cultural, and national security landscape of think tanks here in Washington was assaulted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last week in…
Pakistan TB Deaths will Increase as USAID Funding Ends
On Friday, March 7 all tuberculosis (TB) related health activities were terminated in Pakistan and elsewhere as a result of President Trump’s January 20 executive order ending the $44 billion…
Educators Attempt to Educate DOGE on Education
One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally,…
You Will Cry Out Because of Your King
As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC for over 45 years I am acutely aware of the…
Shut Down the Coup Rally Calls for Massive Resistance
Federal workers and taxpayers continue to protest daily across the city as they become more frustrated and infuriated by Elon Musk and DOGE in the illegal cutting of their jobs…
Standing up for Science Against DOGE Attacks
Science matters! And on March 7 a “Nationwide Stand up for Science” rally took place along with 32 other “nerd parties across the country” protesting the Trump administration’s attack on…
Trump is Moving Rapidly to Destroy Workers’ Rights
Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is…
Federal Workers on Earth to Musk, Save Our Services
Federal employees along with ordinary citizens rallied and protested at the now-infamous Tesla showroom here on February 19 to express their solidarity to stop Elon Musk and his Department of…
“Elon’s Monkey Business” Charged with Cruelty
Since its founding in 2016, Neuralink, a private for-profit company co-founded and owned in large part by Elon Musk, has been working on the development of brain-computer interface (BCI) implants…
Tesla Protest Electrifies Activists
CORTE MADERA, CA (02-15) – At Tesla dealerships across the globe on February 15 protesters demonstrated and picketed the company’s showrooms in making their voices heard in defiance of the…
Is Elon Musk taking over the US government? Here’s how ‘state capture’ works – and why we should be concerned
Many Americans have watched in horror as Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has been permitted to tear through various offices of the United States government in recent weeks. Backed…
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