Life Of Actions

2.24.21 “This pro-Navalny protest in Yakutsk in the negative 50C absolutely blows my mind”

Prepare to remain disappointed, fascism failed. “Mark Leggiero is the one lone supporter out in front of the Capitol. He says he expected a few thousand ppl here and is disappointed. He said he drove 45 minutes for a peaceful ” - Morgan F McKay via twitter

The scene from Black Lives Matter Plaza -

New Year, New President, Same Actions

8.24.20 Hundreds of all ages are demonstrating in Kenosha outside of the courthouse. While investigations continue to play out, one thing we do know is there’s a lot of pain in the community and beyond over what feels like a story they’ve heard before. @ Kenosha Wisconson

8.18.20

8.2.20 Today was epic. Over 600 in attendance, biggest s*x worker march in the US, from Times Square to FIT and back, chanting:

“Black s*x workers lives matter. S*x work is work.”

These are the new warriors of . Allies step back & center this leadership.


- @ Times Square, New York City

8.1.20 😮 This is Chicago tonight.

“No justice, no peace.”

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7.25.20 It’s all about the optics.

7.25.20 Meanwhile in , ...

7.26.20 Large frowny face projected onto Portland courthouse

6.1.20 A man stands with his child in front of the police during demonstrations Sunday in downtown Long Beach. Police pointed rubber bullet guns to get crowds to back away. 📸

7.24.20 Wow. Chicago right now. @ Chicago, Illinois

7.24.20 Another huge crowd tonight in Portland, including a new "wall" on the front lines: a .

Here's a look at the line of getting set up here in front of the federal courthouse. Behind them, the and the are arriving. - twitter 📸 @ mike baker

7.21.20 we are in fact protesting in orkney. don’t let people think we like boris or want him here @ Orkney, British Isles - Scotland

7.21.20 Over 160 pairs of white nursing clogs lined the lawn facing the US Capitol on Tuesday in memory of the nurses who've died during the coronavirus crisis.

The shoes were set there by members of National Nurses United, the largest union for registered nurses in the US. At the vigil, the nurses implored the Senate to pass the HEROES Act, a sweeping $3 trillion bill proposed by that would, among many other measures, increase production for personal protection equipment that hospitals need to treat coronavirus patients.

National Nurses United says the bill, which also would provide direct payments to Americans and funding for state and local governments, could save patients' and nurses' lives.

As of Tuesday, 164 nurses had died due to the coronavirus, according to National Nurses United. Some of them, as Sims said in her speech on the lawn of the Capitol, died at the same hospitals where they worked.

The nurses' union held a similar protest in May in front of the White House, then surrounded by 88 pairs of shoes. There were over 70,000 deaths then, Sims said.

Over two months later, the number of deaths in the US has doubled to over 140,000. Sims said the staggering US death rate demonstrates a "complete and utter failure of presidential and congressional leadership."

The House of Representatives passed the Democrat-backed HEROES Act on May 15, one week after the nurses' demonstration. It stalled in the Senate, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP senators have been drafting their own stimulus bill without Democrats' input, according to Senate Democratic Leader . -

7.21.20 The crowd is projecting a series of demands on the wall of the Justice Center. I do not think Ted is going to like them. 🎥

If you're talking about these moms in you better also be talking (and much more loudly) about Mamie Till, the women of , Sybrina Fulton, Wanda Johnson, Lesley McSpadden... -

7.21.20 Just some signs as the chanting, drumming and ubiquitous pig-squeeze-toy squeezing echoes through the city’s civic nerve center. 📸 Dirk Vanderhart @ Portland, Oregon

7.20.20 Federal officers sent to to “quell” have had this effect

@ Portland, Oregon

7.20.20 When you're a photographer and the tear gas is blowing your way and you see someone kick it back from whence it came 😍 photo credit bottom left

7.20.20 There are probably about 2,000 people here right now in front of the Justice Center, with moms in yellow lined up in front, stretching across a whole block.

"FED GOONS OUT OF " is now projected on the

7.18.20 original photo An unidentified woman, wearing only a face mask and a cap, sits in a Portland, Ore., street early Saturday morning, facing officers who held back .(Dave Killen / The Oregonian)

7.18.20 An unidentified woman, wearing only a face mask and a cap, sits in a Portland, Ore., street early Saturday morning, facing officers who held back .(Dave Killen / The Oregonian)

7.4.20 Detroit, where the Columbus statue once stood. 📸

7.3.20 Indigenous at Mount Rushmore (sacred land) being arrested on their own land. @ Mount Rushmore National Memorial

7.19.20 Be safer out there.

More than 150,000 new coronavirus cases were reported to WHO yesterday — "the most in a single day so far,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a Friday briefing.

“Almost half of those cases were reported from the Americas, with large numbers also being reported from South Asia and the Middle East,” he added.
Tedros warned, “The world is in a new and dangerous phase. Many people are understandably fed up with being at home. Countries are understandably eager to open up their societies and economies. But the virus is spreading fast, it is still deadly, and most people are still susceptible.”

WHO urges people to continue to maintain distance from others, stay home if you feel sick, wear a mask when appropriate, and washing your hands frequently. -

6.7.20 Black Lives Matter in Austin, TX ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @ Austin, Texas

6.6.20 Imagine losing everything to unending and unwanted wars — yet still having the compassion to care for people across the world.

Just stunning. ✌🏾❤️✊🏾 @ Syria

Suffragists picketed in front of the open gates of the White House in 1917.

The White House grounds first closed to the public when the U.S. entered World War I in 1917. Some of the earliest in front of the occurred that year, as well: Suffragists and activists picketed frequently in front of the gates (which often remained open). -

June 2020 Protests

June 2020 Protests

6.7.20 In , , a young woman named Samantha Francine is confronted by a large white man with balled fists, shouting, "Black Lives Matter? F**k you! F**k you! F**k you!" She does not look away.

This is America, 2020.

(Photo by Grace Jensen) @ Whitefish, Montana

6.6.20 in being a

June 2020 Worldwide Protest

6.7.20 The fence outside the White House has been converted to a crowd-sourced memorial wall — almost like an art gallery — to black men and women who lost their lives at the hands of police.

Hundreds are strolling, looking, adding names and paintings and posters. @ The White House

5.29.20