Today hundreds - mostly high school & college students - held a @Fridays4future#PeopleNotProfit marched in DC to hold Biden accountable to promises to combat climate change.
"What do we want? A Green New Deal! When do we want it? Now!"
One PNP marcher confronted a PC driver with a sign reading "Fascist losers out of DC."
"God bless all of you," said the driver. "We parade for your freedom."
"They have a permit for Union Square" an MPD officer told USCP Lt. Ryan Schauf as the climate activists arrived at the Capitol.
Lt. Schauf shook an organizer's hand and gave him instructions as they entered Capitol grounds without issue.
"We are teachers and students, baristas and busboys. We are truckers and attorneys... We are everything under the sun," says Anna, organizer of @Fridays4future.
"And we all have the common interest in living the rest of our lives supported by our government and thus our planet."
AmericanU student / Sunrise Mvmt activist Kennedy Smith says corporations create "this false sense of choice" that "binds us to believing what kills our planet is good for us."
"Humanity is not the problem when it comes to climate culture, but our culture of over consumption."
Today hundreds rallied in DC for America to enforce a no-fly zone in Ukraine, effectively promising to shoot down Russian jets in that airspace.
The group played a "lullaby" video with images of babies and lyrics like, "If you don't close the sky, I will die."
Full lyrics:
"If you don't close the sky I will die
IYDCTS mom will cry
IYDCTS he'll lose home
IYDCTS there'll be doom
IYDCTS the sky will still fight
IYDCTS we'll feel the night
IYDCTS he [Putin] might win
Now look in these eyes and think again"
'Defending Democracy Together' Director @BillKristol praised "the people of Ukraine who are reminding us what free men and women can do under brutal assault from an aggressor, from a dictator who is violating obviously all the laws of war and norms of decency."
Griffin had lots of comments for the media after split verdict rendered in his J6 case! Full video here: fb.watch/bVMxvAW1B_/
He says he’ll be back with the People’s Convoy in Hagerstown Tonight, but first, he’s stopping at the Capitol Grille.
PHOTOS: @CowboyCouy Griffin speaks to press and poses for photos after being convicted on one count and acquitted on another for January 6 this afternoon.
NO VERDICT yet in what was expected to be a 1-day bench trial for misdemeanor January 6 defendant & New Mexico local elected official @CowboyCouy Griffin.
Griffin verbally spars with CBS’s @MacFarlaneNews on the way out.
Trial resumes and presumably concludes tomorrow morning.
I count six rigs with the People’s Convoy currently heading westbound on Constitution Avenue, just north of and parallel to DC’s National Mall.
Two MPD vehicles shadow the group.
So I found the source of this livestream.
US Parks Police has a helicopter flying at a low altitude, circling above this small contingent of the #PeoplesConvoy driving around the National Mall.
Palestinians used slingshots to throw rocks and tear gas canisters back at the IDF.
It appears in this footage from @Mohamedelsaife2 that were at a severe disadvantage between often lacking high ground and throwing rocks/canisters versus IDF using weapons to shoot down at them.
In one shot from @Mohamedelsaife2, Palestinians duck for cover ahead of a rubber coated bullet fired by IDF, which whizzes by.
When the protesters stand back up, one preps a sling shot while others dance in defiance.