You
can’t
talk
about
AAPI Heritage Month
without
talking
about
AAPI History
and
you
can’t
talk
about
AAPI History
without
talking
about
Palestine.

📢 TAKE ACTION 📢 The National Park Service and the Bowser administration are slated to evict and permanently close five encampment sites in Foggy Bottom, displacing up to 70 people. Please join us in urging policymakers to halt this evictions today: bit.ly/3y6MQuG

Student protesters were right about segregation in the early '60s, right about Vietnam in the late '60s, right about apartheid in the '80s, right about Iraq in 2003, and right about wealth inequality in 2011. Seems generally bad to side against student movements.

The pro-Palestine encampment at GWU is only blocks away from the numerous homeless camps slated for eviction in DC. Its important we highlight how connected these struggles are & how settler colonialism & capitalism constantly uproots & displaces peoples & communities.

BREAKING: The Metropolitan Police Department reportedly rejected a request from GW officials to clear student protesters from the U-Yard encampment early Friday morning, The Washington Post reported Friday evening gwhatchet.com/2024/04/26/liv…

All solidarity to the protestors at GW now. Our own Mayor For Life Marion Barry occupied the 🇿🇦 embassy to fight apartheid - so proud that the tradition of int'l solidarity in DC flows thru GW students. GW should heed the protestors' calls and MPD+GWPD should stay out of it

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

Freedom of assembly must be upheld, especially on our college campuses.
 
I stand behind students' rights to gather in their calls for peace.

Eric Goulet Recall Charles Allen 'We considered various options to sustain our operations and engaged in lengthy negotiations with our landlords, but despite our best efforts, difficulties with the extension of our lease and conditions of the building proved impossible to overcome.'

In Street Sense's new issue, you'll find a story from one of our interns about the police detaining a pregnant Black woman during an encampment closure. Police held the woman, Tavoncia, in a police van for an hour, handcuffed, while the city cleared her encampment. (1/4)

New: Bowser handed a $500k contract to a friend's firm for an anti-opioid media campaign, bypassing a commission convened to guide such spending.

This seriously pissed off members, who note that the company was forced to return other opioid $ in 2019...
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/691533…

If you are more angry about student anti-war protests at Columbia than the fact that last night Israel bombed southern Gaza, killing 22 people, including 18 children, then you are on the wrong side of history.

Hundreds of advocates from around the country lie down with blankets in front of #SCOTUS . If they were in Grant’s Pass, they would give you a $295 ticket for sleeping with a blanket.

#housingnothandcuffs #johnsonvgrantspass

The only way we “Secure DC” is with an economic focused plan to empower and stabilize black DC Natives

there are too many asian americans who care more about asian actors winning oscars than this and frankly it’s embarrassing

Once a month, via a chartered bus, DC Chinatown's remaining Chinese residents leave the city for the suburbs to grocery shop.

Why? There's no familiar, affordable food in their neighborhood.

Photos via Tyrone Turner

wamu.org/story/24/04/16…

I don't want us to stop talking about this. at the DIRECT ORDER of Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2020, MPD is responsible for bringing 8 THOUSAND GUNS into DC - with 'archaic' background check processes - and 25 MPD-SOLD GUNS were recovered at crime scenes in just 2021.

Who keeps us safe?

another Bowser administration masterclass

On the 1yr anniversary of DC decriminalizing street vending, DC’s Dept of Health gave out cease and desist notices to vendors.

DC Health still hasn't created the pathway for food vendors to get their permits — if DC Health won't follow the law, how can vendors?

#decrimvending