Washington DC

Trump White House Says Military Occupation of Nation’s Capital Set to Expand

August 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Racism, Systemic Racism, The War at Home

One critic accused the president of “testing the limits of his power, hoping to intimidate other cities into submission to his every vengeful whim.” By Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, August 13, 2025 The Trump administration’s military occupation of Washington, D.C. is expected to expand, a White House official said Wednesday, with President Donald Trump also saying he will[…]

Trump and Democrats Fuel the Washington DC Crime Panic

August 16, 2025 UNAC Editor Militarized Police, Racism, Right Wing Extremism, The War at Home, US Government Action, War on the Poor

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, August 13, 2025 Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus promoting racist crime panics, which are[…]

Report on Mass Opposition to Netanyahu’s Visit With U.S. Politicians

July 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Protest, US Politics

by Neal Resnikoff, Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CWAC), July 25, 2024 It was inspiring to see the turnout of tens of thousands and excellent rally and march in Washington, D.C. yesterday against the invitation by the U.S. Congress to have Crime Minister of Israel Netanyahu speak. A goodly number of trade unionists wearing their union t-shirts and carrying logos participated. Many[…]

Protest at the White House, March 18, Against US Proxy War In Ukraine

March 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Cost of War, Democracy and Consent, Ending War, Protest, Resistance, Rights of Opressed Peoples, The War at Home, US Foreign Policy

by John V. Walsh, published on Counterpunch, March 15, 2023 This protest did occur with about 2,500 people in attendance. We rallied across the street from the White House in Lafayette Park, with numerous speakers, then marched through the streets of DC to the Washington Post offices, an then to a church where there was an indoor rally, or “teach-in”[…]

A Howl for Blood in Iran as Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4

July 12, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Militarism, U.S. Aggression

By Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright, published on Consortium News, July 8, 2019 President Donald Trump’s order to the Pentagon to have an aerial parade of military aircraft over Washington, D.C., on July 4 provided a history lesson of America’s war mongering in the past two decades, and a terrifying view of what might appear in the skies of Iran[…]