Activism Spotlight

Speaking Out

This section of the site aims at giving visibility to the numerous local protests and rallies taking place across the U.S. every week.

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Note: Where possibile, links to the organizers are included. Send them messages of support!

Activism Spotlight - Speaking Out in the U.S.

Protests, rallies and creative activism in the U.S.

May 22, 2006

Duncan, Oklahoma; Washington DC; Albuquerque, New Mexico; New York City; Santa Barbara, California; Boston Massachusetts.

Protests at Halliburton Shareholders' Meeting

After the protests in Houston last year, Halliburton attempted to hide their annual shareholders' meeting away in the town of Duncan, Oklahoma. But protesters followed...

See more photos, and listen to a report on the OK NPR station KGOU, including an interview with Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch.

Don't Attack Iran Petition Delivery in Washington DC

The petition opposing attacks on Iran with close to 50,000 signatures was delivered to the White House. Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin of Codepink and our own Kathy Ford were on hand for the event.

Read Kathy's write-up. See more photos, video and read reports on the Traprock Peace Center and AfterDowningStreet web sites.

Impeachment Billboard in Albuquerque, New Mexico

The latest billboard from MergingLeft, a grassroots, all-volunteer organization in Albuquerque NM.

See more photos and past projects from MergingLeft.

McCain at The New School and Colombia University

John McCain gave commencement addresses at two universities in New York and was met by protests at both. Students held signs, turned their backs and heckled McCain during his speech.

Photos of Colombia and the New School, video and a report on The Nation. Read the commencement speech made by Jean Rohe and why she spoke out on Huffington Post.

ImpeachFest at University of California Santa Barbara

Over 150 students held an impeachment rally at UCSB, with speeches, petitions, information packets and a phone bank for lobbying California Senator Dianne Feinstein on impeachment.

Read about it and see more photos

Protesting Condi at Boston College

Faculty and students protested Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during commencement ceremonies at Boston College.

See more photos

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Upshot of our Nov. 9th group discussion on current politics:

It wasn't the Russians that got us Trump. Or Comey. Or even the massive GOP election fraud. It was the DNC.*
*Dem National Committee

To learn how to stop the DNC from delivering us another Trump, read Autopsy: the Democratic Party in Crisis.

Photo of a school in Yemen bombed by Saudi Arabian jets supplied by the U.S. and fueled in the air by the U.S. Air Force. Tell Trump to STOP THIS CARNAGE, not fuel it! Click here.
Also participate in the CodePink email and/or phone initiative:

Click here to sign a petition, to put an end to the sanctions against Syria - their only effect is to take a terrible toll on the population, causing them to migrate! And click here to see the video by the Italian Committee to lift sanctions against Syria.

Did someone tell you that U.S. military intervention in Iraq was over? Not true: we're at it again. This time the pretext to drop bombs is "curbing ISIS" (which was created by the U.S. in the first place, to overturn al-Malaki in Iraq and then Assad in Syria, and is now out of hand. Like what happened to "our" creature al Qaeda in Afghanistan). And the death toll continues to rise...
Write your senators and tell them: "Enough! U.S. out!! Iraq has shown it can curb ISIS by itself!"