Showing posts with label Lafayette Park. Show all posts
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TRUMP FAILED TO GET NOBEL PEACE PRIZE - Massive Bombing of Iraq - Blowing UP Boats near Venezuela - Invading Portland, Chicago and Washington DC for no reason... That's Not Peace That's CRAZY!

Insane... #RUNAWAY from Mad King Donald!



"The Time has Come for the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class!"  an Ecoterrorist's Journey...  [FICTION]
"The Time has Come for the Violet Overgrow of the Ruling Class!"  #France1789  Has Trump's crazy behavior finally gone too far?

after the Secret Service came over to my house to interview me about something I had posted on Twitter, I decided to delete this entire story... 

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Disclaimer: this is a rewrite of a novel that I published on the internet about 5 years ago... I decided that it was dangerous for me to include "certain scenes" in that novel... You see, the Secret Service came to visit me because they were unhappy with things that I had said on TwitterX... And they were very glad that I deleted all of the posts on "that subject" ... First they visited my brother on the telephone... Then they visited my ex-wife in Eureka in person... I guess they went there because that address is on my CAL ID card... 

Anyway... I have to make sure that I don't piss off Trump and his evil minions... Cuz I don't want to go to jail over promoting Revolution... That's something that should be done by someone who is more patriotic than I... Guys like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Obi-Wan Kenobi or Yoda... Not me! No no no it ain't me babe... It ain't me you're looking for babe... 

What I found odd about that whole Secret Service visit is they knew exactly where I live... My CAL ID card says a different city. When I registered to vote I lived in the house next door and the only people that actually know where I really live are Instacart, Amazon and Walmart... The Men in Black parked their truck right in my space... And rang my doorbell... Not next door... 

The SS were dressed in black clothes with badges and each guy had a Pistol... Truly Men in Black!

What I'm up to is this: I want to cause enough MAGA Morons to wake up and realize that Trump is a pile of sh*t and is causing dramatic destruction of the United States... And causing harm to their friends and family... 

Once enough people have had enough... The US Congress can use the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove Trump because he's Incapacitated... Unable to do his job due to health problems... In his case, mental health problems... Because if the vast majority of Americans wake up and realize that Trump is Crazy... And a danger to self and others... We're going to dump Trump!

Even if you're a Trump voter, come out and demonstrate... Did you notice that he's doing a horrible job and that your life is worse??? Did you notice that he's a total disaster??? So you made a mistake, you voted for a pile of sh*t... Now is the time to take your buyer's remorse out in public and start screaming!

Trump's brain is fried... Prove me wrong


The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF... It's fascism, plain and simple.

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A Peace Vigil Sits Near the White House for 44 Years! Will they be Evicted by Trump for being "Homeless People" ??? Every word from the Washington Post article without the paywall... Piracy!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/11/peace-vigil-congressman-letter/



By Marissa J. Lang

Just beyond the tall metal fence encircling the White House, visitors from Europe paused outside a makeshift shelter on the red brick of Pennsylvania Avenue to offer thanks to a graying man in a wheelchair. Then a couple from New Jersey approached with questions. A man asked to take pictures for his wife. Sometimes, a whole tour group would descend, all at once.

Philipos Melaku-Bello is used to this parade of people. He’s been stopped here every few minutes — with questions, challenges, gratitude, offers for help and support — for more than four decades.

Melaku-Bello, 63, is the longest-serving steward of the White House Peace Vigil, a 44-year protest calling for nuclear disarmament and an end to global conflicts. To maintain its position in Lafayette Square, just across Pennsylvania Avenue and visible from the north side of the White House, the demonstration must be manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Melaku-Bello spends more than 100 hours each week keeping the vigil alive. He is aided by a rotating cast of volunteers. Some stand watch through quiet mornings and scorching lunch breaks. Others work overnight shifts, spending the darkest hours of the day under a tarp covered in flags and banners that read: “War is not the answer!”

The demonstration is widely considered to be the longest continuous act of political protest in U.S. history. It has survived seven presidents, countless global conflicts, hurricanes and blizzards, heat waves and floods. It has outlasted several U.S. wars, including the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

Now, it faces a new threat: Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-New Jersey) wrote a letter to the Interior Department calling the vigil “a 24/7 eyesore” and accusing the protesters who maintain it of hijacking a national park. He demanded the agency review its legality and, if appropriate, disband the demonstration.

“Let me be clear: nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to erect permanent structures and occupy public land day after day, year after year, in a manner that creates public safety hazards, degrades the appearance of one of our most iconic parks, and burdens both the District and the National Park Service,” Van Drew wrote in May to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.

Van Drew is a fourth-term congressman who was initially elected as a Democrat, but changed his party affiliation to Republican in 2020 to protest the first impeachment of President Trump, to whom he pledged his “undying support.”

Trump has repeatedly pressured D.C. and other cities to do more to target encampments and homelessness. This year, the president issued an executive order that directed the Park Service to remove all homeless encampments from federal land in the District and last month directed federal agencies to find ways to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness and addiction.

But the peace vigil is not a homeless encampment. Its tent — used by vigil keepers to shelter from the elements — houses literature, signs, water and other supplies. Melaku-Bello and other volunteers maintain homes elsewhere.

A spokeswoman for the Interior Department declined to comment on Van Drew’s letter or say whether the agency was furnishing a report on the vigil.

“While we do not comment on congressional correspondence through the media, the Department of Interior takes all correspondence from Congress seriously and carefully reviews each matter,” spokeswoman Elizabeth Peace wrote in an email to The Washington Post.

When asked about the potential threat of removal, Melaku-Bello smiled and gestured to the handwritten copy of the First Amendment he keeps on display. This, he said, is not the first time someone has wanted the vigil disbanded.


The Peace Vigil began on June 3, 1981, when its founder, William Thomas, appeared outside of the White House holding a placard that read, “Wanted: Wisdom and Honesty.”

With time, he accumulated other signs and broadened his message. Soon, it was: “Ban All Nuclear Weapons or Have a Nice Doomsday” and “Live By the Bomb, Die By the Bomb.” In his 28 years as the vigil’s primary keeper, Thomas was homeless on and off, arrested several times for illegally camping in Lafayette Square, and surveilled nearly constantly by the Secret Service.

Still, he amassed a following.

Long before social media could beam a message around the world in an nanosecond, Thomas relied on a network of alternative publications, groups and supporters from out of town to spread the word of his protest. One such supporter was Melaku-Bello’s father. It was through him that Melaku-Bello found his way to the vigil.

In 1981, Melaku-Bello was an anarchist kid from Southern California who believed in radical equality, peace and punk rock. He was touring the East Coast with his bandmates, performing at alternative venues — including the original 9:30 Club in D.C. — when he first came to visit the peace vigil.

It was, at the time, a small operation, with Thomas and a handful of others filling out round-the-clock shifts. Melaku-Bello said he volunteered to pull an overnight, three nights in a row, while he was in town. He found it peaceful, he said, staying up in the park as the city emptied and quieted down.

“It was basically young people who agreed with this neo-anarchistic ideology of no more wars, no more top-down systems, no more misogyny and racism,” Melaku-Bello recalled recently, sitting under an umbrella outside the shelter. “That there had to be a better way.”

From then on, every time Melaku-Bello found himself in the District for work or art or any other reason, he would make a pilgrimage to the Peace Vigil and relieve the keepers for one night or several.

By the 1990s, Melaku-Bello had moved to the area and secured a job with the Alexandria parks and recreation department. He split his time between the job he got paid to do and the job he gave himself: supporting the peace activists and their mission and filling out the rotating crew of vigil keepers outside the White House. At their peak, Melaku-Bello said, they had a group of about 20 in rotation. That number tends to swell when other big protests come to town.

Today, there are about a half-dozen.


Concepcion Picciotto, lady from the Fahrenheit 911 movie by Michael Moore... She's at the very end of the movie... 

Thomas died of pulmonary disease on Jan. 23, 2009, at the age of 61. His longtime collaborator Concepcion Picciotto became the face of the vigil soon after. Seven years later, Picciotto died after spending three decades of her life outside the White House “to stop the world from being destroyed.”

Soon, Melaku-Bello, who for decades had been a behind-the-scenes organizer, was thrust into the spotlight. He is the last of the original activists still dedicated to preserving their protest, and, over the past decade, has become its de facto leader — a title that he, a lifelong opponent of hierarchies, rejects.

Philipos Melaku-Bello

Melaku-Bello said the number of hostile interactions he’s had in recent months with passersby has increased — not just compared to what he experienced during the Biden administration, but also compared to President Trump’s first term.

The vigil keepers have been physically attacked, spit on, heckled and called names and slurs. On a recent afternoon, a young man wearing a kippah shouted at Melaku-Bello for waving the Palestinian flag. On several occasions, Melaku-Bello has returned to his protest to find posters torn down, kicked in and vandalized. Several are covered in ink.

In its 44-year run, the protest has faced several legal challenges and been under near-constant watch by police agencies that patrol in and around the square, as well as the Park Service, which bans camping in Lafayette Square, requiring that a protest be active to qualify as a First Amendment demonstration.

The vigil has been torn down or removed just a handful of times, according to media accounts. It happened twice roughly a decade ago, when the makeshift structure that shelters the vigil keepers from the elements was left unattended in violation of Park Service rules. The protest was also forced to move from Lafayette Square in 2020, amid confrontations between racial justice demonstrators and police following the murder of George Floyd.

Over the years, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the District’s longtime nonvoting representative in the House, has aided them in reestablishing their protest after U.S. Park Police have cleared the demonstration.

Norton, who has had a decades-long relationship with the vigil keepers, also became their champion in Congress, helping the activists craft legislation that calls on “all countries possessing nuclear weapons” to begin the “verifiable and irreversible elimination of such weapons.”

The delegate has introduced a version of this bill every year since 1994.

In March, she introduced the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Conversion Act for the 17th time. This year, the delegate included language that would direct the U.S. to “redirect resources that are being used for nuclear weapons programs to be used for addressing the climate crisis and human and infrastructure needs, such as housing, health care and restoring the environment.” The legislation has never been brought to the House floor for a vote.

Norton, in a statement to The Post, bristled at her colleague’s attempt to dismantle the demonstration.

“The First Amendment protects peaceful protests, even when they’re seen as unsightly or inconvenient, and even when they occur in front of the White House,” Norton said in the statement. “The Peace Vigil has stood in front of the White House for more than 30 years, with its organizers engaged in principled activism at considerable personal cost. If Representative Van Drew’s claim that the vigil creates public safety hazards were valid, it would have been removed long ago.”

“Finally, Representative Van Drew argues in his letter that the Peace Vigil burdens D.C., but his district is in New Jersey,” Norton added. “As D.C.’s sole member of Congress, I’m the best advocate for the District, and I wholeheartedly support the Peace Vigil, its organizers and its message.”

Van Drew’s letter accuses the peace activists of sending “the wrong message to law-abiding Americans.”

“This isn’t about stopping a protest. It’s about upholding the rule of law, preserving one of America’s most iconic public spaces, and ending a double standard that’s made a mockery of both,” the congressman wrote.

Despite these recent attacks, Melaku-Bello said the vigil’s following has only continued to grow.

He frequently gives interviews to international press and relies on social media to communicate with followers and donors. Melaku-Bello — who speaks eight languages fluently and is as comfortable quoting Black Sabbath as he is Stokely Carmichael — has amassed supporters in countries all over the globe, and has used his platforms to speak out against global conflicts and, most recently, Trump’s protectionist trade policies.

“I have a big following in the Philippines, I mean, I have a big following on a lot of continents,” Melaku-Bello said with a chuckle. “A lot of times they’ll send me messages through WhatsApp or through Instagram or Facebook Messenger. They’ll send me articles that will come out in their country about us. It’s cool.”

On a recent afternoon, Melaku-Bello balanced an open umbrella on the arm of his wheelchair to shield himself from the sun as temperatures crept close to 100 degrees and the bustle of Lafayette Square simmered.

Music from a trombone player across the street lilted past. Vendors hawking cold water, political T-shirts and, occasionally, ice cream greeted him like an old friend as they patrolled the plaza. A man on a scooter paused to assure Melaku-Bello that he would be back soon — to do an overnight shift at the vigil.

Then, a woman approached. “Thank you for your protest,” said the woman, a German journalist named Ulrike Schirmer. “You are a single man, but you do more than many leaders do at the moment.”

Melaku-Bello bowed his head in a gesture of gratitude.

“We are going together into the future,” Schirmer continued. “That’s my interest here. Not people trying to force us to separate.”

“Thank you, sister,” he said.

As she turned to go, he waved — to her and others who paused to watch the exchange — then settled back into his chair, ready for another photo, another hello, another round of questions.

He’s got time, after all. He’ll be here all day, maybe all night.

And then back again tomorrow.

By Marissa J. Lang

Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post. She previously covered housing and gentrification, protest movements and the rise of domestic extremism in the U.S.

Republicans who voted for tRUMP feel so Used and Dirty... Like Toilet Paper... Join the resistance! Banish him to Mar-A-Loser!

Republicans who voted for tRUMP feel so Used and Dirty... Like Toilet Paper... Join the resistance! Banish him to Mar-A-Loser!




Drum circle at the White House



And then on Faceborg SE said:
To my friends in Canada: I hope you understand that the vast majority of Americans do NOT support Trump's crazy ideas of making Canada part of the US. That thought never crossed our minds, and most of us can hardly even wrap our heads around the concept. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that enough people voted for Trump to get him elected. But the crazy things he has been saying about wanting to take over Canada, Greenland, Panama, and the Gaza Strip are downright scary. That's pure dictator talk. I'm pretty sure I speak for the majority of Americans when I say that all that dictator talk is coming from Trump and only Trump. The rest of us just want to get back to living a normal life without having to worry about our rights being taken away, or possibly being hunted down and killed because we don't agree with the things Trump is doing. I still can't believe people voted for him over something as mundane as the price of groceries - and he's so busy talking about conquering other countries, he hasn't even MENTIONED grocery prices. Are people sorry about how they voted? We could have had a president who actually cared about us and our democracy and our allies, but people just didn't get it.


HOW WE RESIST TRUMP AND HIS EXTREME AGENDA 
By Congressman Jerry Nadler

Since Election Day, many people have asked me what they might do to support those of us in Congress who are ready and willing to stand up and fight the Trump agenda. 

My answer starts with a fundamental belief that the 240-year-old institutions of our government, in particular, our systems of checks and balances, were, in part, created with the precise goal of averting tyranny. 

These institutions can only function properly, however, when our country’s leaders work vigorously to ensure that they do, and when citizens remain fully engaged in the process. Now more than ever, with a President-elect who threatens to undermine and even delegitimize those institutions—and in doing so, to damage the very soul of our liberal democracy—

I implore everyone to help our country help itself. 

We cannot wait four years to vote Mr. Trump out of office, as members of the GOP Senate and House Majorities have already stated that they will facilitate the Trump agenda, even if they weren’t supporters of his during the campaign. So we must do everything we can to stop Trump and his extreme agenda now. 

We do this by: 
1. Holding him accountable for the tenor and tactics of his campaign, as well as his past and ongoing deplorable personal, professional and political conduct; 
2. Waging fierce battles against every regressive action he takes—from personnel appointments to his legislative program—in order to thwart or at least slow them down; 
3. Exposing his Republican enablers in Congress, and voting them out of office in 2018, with the goal of taking back either the House or the Senate for Democratic control.


https://rvat.org/

“For the first time in over 50 years of voting in presidential elections, I will not vote Republican.”
These are former Donald Trump voters. They supported him and his policies in the past. But now, they refuse to support him for president again. Watch them explain in their own words why they’re voting against their party to ensure that Trump never holds office again.

The Quest To Convince Republicans That Donald Trump Can’t Do Evil... Because the Whole World will RESIST! 


That will be great joy at Trump's funeral



TODAY! Not My President's Day - Nationwide Day of Action... Noon, February 17th, 2025 - Everyone Everywhere needs to do Everything We Can to Exorcise the White House. Let's Send "he who shall not be named" to Mar-A-Loser.

 

50501 Not My President's Day - Nationwide Day of Action... Noon, February 17th, 2025 - Everyone Everywhere needs to do Everything We Can to Exorcise the White House. Let's Send "he who shall not be named" to Mar-A-Loser.



The grassroots organizations 50501 Movement and Political Revolution are partnering to organize a nationwide day of action on February 17—Presidents' Day—under the banner "Not My President's Day."

The event, set to take place in all 50 states, is aimed at opposing policies enacted by President Donald Trump since his return to the White House.

The 50501 Movement, named for its goal of holding protests in all 50 states on a single day, recently emerged as a major anti-Trump activist group. Organizers cite their opposition to Trump's recent executive actions, including changes to immigration policy and federal agency restructuring, as key motivators for the upcoming protests. According to GV Wire, the movement's organizers describe their mission as a fight against "fascism" and a call for "government accountability."

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And then on Faceborg SE said:
You want social security, Medicaid cut. To pay for tax breaks that you won’t enjoy? You didn’t want TikTok a foreign company to get your data. Yet, at the same time you wanted a foreign born social media company to have access to your data. Got it. You wanted all of that. Hope you don’t have an older folks you love in your life. You wanted more expensive medicine, boom! There was an executive order for that as well. What I heard was we want lower groceries and inflation. Yet over the last month inflation has gone up and so have prices for eggs and other groceries. You wanted America first only to learn that we want to get involved in Middle East and buy and own Gaza. Amongst other imperialistic overtures. You wanted to buy Greenland a country that doesn’t want to be purchased. You also voted for and wanted the takeover of Canada. America first right and no new wars. Those are things I had thought many wanted and yet. I don’t see a single bit of that. I see people being deported. and executive orders and bills being introduced that strip you and people you know do their rights. Remember your statement in 200 days when America looks like something you never wanted. Than you can post. This is what we voted for.

I Went To a NORML protest march in Lafayette Park (across from the White House) in Washington DC. and Smoke-IN! Legalize Marijuana Nationwide!

I attended a protest rally against Marijuana Laws in DC where the Laws were not enforced. It was a large public gathering with a lot of weed being smoked and NO ARRESTS. The reason for no arrests is that the government did not want publicity in the newspapers about this protest. Headlines that say... "Mass Arrests" get a mention on the TV News but without the arrests, no coverage. The people that passed the laws prohibiting marijuana do NOT want publicity.

So we got really stoned and then it started to rain... I had left my raincoat in the car parked on the OTHER side of Pennsylvania Ave. I tried to walk across the street but the traffic was too dangerous for me to cross. The streetlights would cycle and let different cars pass but there did not seem to be any safe time for pedestrians. Since I was getting cold and wet, I walked into the Renwick Gallery and spent hours admiring the paintings and glasswork. When I got out, I was no longer stoned and was able to decipher the traffic light patters... and walked across Pennsylvania Ave, Got into my car and drove home.

I really enjoyed the Smithsonian Galleries. I visited every building multiple times... They often had traveling exhibits that were worth visiting.  For Example: Leonard Da Vinci drawings done in silverpoint.

Read more of my autobiography at: http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

MEME - Free All Cannabis Prisoners - gvan42

tRUMP IS HIDING FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE... AFRAID AND ALONE... MASSIVE NEW FENCE DESIGNED TO KEEP THE PATRIOTS OUT!

Where it is: The entire Ellipse and its side panels, roadways and sidewalks, E Street and its sidewalks between 15th-17th Streets, First Division Monument and State Place, Sherman Park and Hamilton Place, the White House Sidewalk and all of Lafayette Park will be closed to the public on June 4, 2020 until June 10, 2020. The park closure comes at the request of the United States Secret Service and the United States Park Police to provide necessary security for purposes of de-escalation of the current situation in park areas adjacent to White House, so that peaceful protest and assembly may resume.
https://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/management/white-house-fence-construction.htm

tRUMP in a Cage just like an Illegal Alien - MEME - gvan42

Massive Protest at the White House. I Wonder if Trump Could Smell the Tear Gas? He WAS at Home Last Night! The Nation Erupts over Police Murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Read President Obama's Words of Wisdom...

New Wall on the North Side of the White House... Reporters Say Construction is to Make the Fence TALLER... WHY? To Keep the Peasants with Torches and Pitchforks OUT? 
Patriots Protest at the White House. Outrage over George Floyd's Murder Erupts Nationwide.


The Secret Service partially sealed off the White House grounds Friday amid nationwide protests following the death of an African-American man in Minneapolis police custody.

Reporters who were at the White House said they were not able to leave the complex early Friday evening, with the doors to the briefing room locked. Secret Service officials told reporters the situation outside was not contained enough to open the doors.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/29/white-house-protest-lock-down-290224

Taylor Swift Vows To Defeat Donald Trump Over Threats To Shoot George Floyd Protesters; “We Will Vote You Out”, Singer Says
https://deadline.com/2020/05/taylor-swift-donald-trump-attack-george-floyd-death-riots-joe-biden-twitter-1202946907/

CNN Reporter Omar Jimenez Released After Arrest Live On Air During Minneapolis Protest Broadcast; Governor Apologizes – Watch The Arrest Video.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/cnn-reporter-omar-jimenez-arrested-live-on-air-minneapolis-protest-broadcast-1202946339/

Los Angeles Police Attacked By George Floyd Protesters In Downtown Melee.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/los-angeles-police-scuffle-protesters-1202947188/

Lines of Riot Police Guard House of Ex-Cop Involved in George Floyd's Death from Protesters.
https://www.newsweek.com/lines-riot-police-guard-house-ex-cop-involved-george-floyds-death-protesters-1507394


Read Obama's full statement below, including a reference to a viral video of a song by Keedron Bryant, who pleads, "I just want to live, God protect me."

I want to share parts of the conversations I've had with friends over the past couple days about the footage of George Floyd dying face down on the street under the knee of a police officer in Minnesota.
The first is an email from a middle-aged African American businessman.
"Dude I gotta tell you the George Floyd incident in Minnesota hurt. I cried when I saw that video. It broke me down. The 'knee on the neck' is a metaphor for how the system so cavalierly holds black folks down, ignoring the cries for help. People don't care. Truly tragic."


Another friend of mine used the powerful song that went viral from 12-year-old Keedron Bryant to describe the frustrations he was feeling.
The circumstances of my friend and Keedron may be different, but their anguish is the same. It's shared by me and millions of others.
It's natural to wish for life "to just get back to normal" as a pandemic and economic crisis upend everything around us. But we have to remember that for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly "normal" — whether it's while dealing with the health care system, or interacting with the criminal justice system, or jogging down the street, or just watching birds in a park.
This shouldn't be "normal" in 2020 America. It can't be "normal." If we want our children to grow up in a nation that lives up to its highest ideals, we can and must be better.

It will fall mainly on the officials of Minnesota to ensure that the circumstances surrounding George Floyd's death are investigated thoroughly and that justice is ultimately done. But it falls on all of us, regardless of our race or station — including the majority of men and women in law enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job the right way, every day — to work together to create a "new normal" in which the legacy of bigotry and unequal treatment no longer infects our institutions or our hearts.

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