The White House seems to keep moving the fence father and father back, now taking over the entirety of Lafayette Park pushing the protests literally into the streets. The big protest happens on Saturday where they expect huge numbers of people gathering along the road now painted in huge yellow letters that spell out BLACK…
Category: Photoessay
Photos from Lancaster, PA’s Protest Against Police Violence
Lancaster, PA – May 31, 2020 Text by Zach D Roberts, Photos by Paige Durborow Most of the coverage of the protests that have sprung up across the nation after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police officers while in their custody have been of larger cities. But even smaller towns have seen incredible…
‘Rally to Free NY’ in Syracuse
Taking a page from the reopen America events, a set of similar rallies were held around New York State. It is rare to have a conservative tinged rally or event in Syracuse (outside of a private fundraiser) even though currently the mayor is a Republican as is the congressman. Back when the tea party was…
ReOpen America rally-goers are members of Trump’s death cult
Originally published in NationofChange The protests across the country this past week calling for a ‘reopening of America’ is the obvious conclusion to the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency. Roughly a thousand people rallied in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this week in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that has so far taken over 45,000 American…
Voices and Stories from the NYC Climate March
Across the country and the world last Friday, kids and adults marched and rallied in solidarity in a Climate Strike. The NYC Mayors office puts the number of people who marched in Manhattan at 60,000, according to the NTY Times; the organizers say 250,000. This journalist’s estimate puts the numbers far closer to the cities…
Photos from the Picket Line in Rochester – Midnight
Mike Elk and I have been on the picket line for the last week speaking to union workers who are on strike from their jobs at GM. Our first stop was in Rochester, NY. When you think of union autoworkers you think Detroit, maybe Ohio… but thousands are employed by GM and other auto manufacturers…
UAW Vote in Chattanooga is Close
You can support Zach’s work at his Patreon. Earlier this month I worked with Mike Elk of PaydayReport.com for Subverse.net – we got some really interesting behind the scenes stories about the United Auto Workers union vote and why there might just still be hope for a union at the VW plant in Chattanooga, Tenn….
Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson has a sad day in Albany
Originally Published in NationofChange.org It’s been a hell of a week for Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson. First, he gets sued for a million dollars and then his “big” anti-choice rally in Albany, NY is a bust. The “Pro-Life rally for the innocent in NY” as it was promoted on Patriot Prayer’s facebook page was organized…
Moveon Protests Trump’s Fake Emergency at the White House
Originally published at NationofChange.org It’s been a long two years since President Trump’s first “emergency” – which was the so-called “Muslim Ban.” Thousands of people responded immediately across the country, headed to major airports to protest and provide support for the people coming in that might be stopped on their entry into the United States….
Let Them Eat Wall
Frigid temperatures didn’t stop federal workers and others from showing up to Federal Plaza in Chicago on Thursday to protest the continuing shutdown of the government over President Donald Trump’s border wall. The shutdown, which began before Christmas, entered its 22nd day on Saturday, and is now the longest in American history. “Federal workers and…