Photos and text by: Danielle Corcione On September 16th and 17th, the People’s Congress of Resistance project – a call to form a new congress – met at Howard University. Their message was that the US Congress no longer represented them: The United States Congress does not represent the people who live and work in the…
Trump Climbs the Mountain of Conflict at the UNGA
text by Sarah Kay It is the first time I am not attending the United Nations’ General Assembly in 12 years or more. It seems what I am missing is a memorable circus of incompetence and a nightmare of public relations. Or was it? Trump addressing the annual gathering of international diplomats and experts in their opening…
Remembering Charlottesville One Month Later
It was a long weekend for all of us. The story of Charlottesville wasn’t supposed to be like this. Most of us journalists expected to be on our way home soon after the ‘Unite the Right’ rally. Very few had booked hotels for Saturday night. It was supposed to be yet another face-off between the…
It’s Time to Bring Back The Yes Men’s SURVIVABALL
With two record breaking hurricanes, one right each other it made me think about getting a Survivaball. If you’ve seen The Yes Men‘s fantastic documentary/mockumentary The Yes Men Fix the World, then you’re familiar with their SurvivaBalls. Originally created as a prank that targeted Halliburton’s disaster profiteering, The Yes Men went with it and continued…
“Am I Being Detained?” – Bill Fulton explains what a sovereign citizen is
Alaska is bigger than Texas, you could split Alaska in two and still both parts would be bigger than the Texas. So when they say “Everything’s bigger in Texas” – imagine what that means in Alaska. Back when Bill Fulton lived in Alaska he had to deal with a lot of crazy people. And when…
Law Enforcement is AWOL in Charlottesville
Originally written and photographed for NationofChange.org This is part two of a two part series (at least for now) questioning the motives and intentions of the law enforcement agencies surrounding the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. Read part one here. If you’ve read my previous pieces for NationofChange, you’d know I was on the ground…
Visu.News Co-Founder on Democracy Now!
Co-founder of Visu.News, Zach D Roberts, appeared on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! discussing his work in Charlottesville, VA. Democracy Now! Transcript This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Another suspect in the brutal beating of a young African-American man during the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,…
Report from C’Ville: “This is not a Metaphor.”
All photos and text by Shay Horse I knew the polo shirt wearing Nazis wanted to scare people and assert their dominance. Nazis aren’t known for their cleverness so doing the torch march in the exact same area as the one lead by Richard Spencer months prior made since. I eventually got a good tip…
Citizens of C’Ville Are Roasting Their City Council
“I wanted to stand up and say fuck you to this group that came in and terrorized us.” Right now citizen after citizen of Charlottesville is going after their city council and they’re just sitting there taking it. As they should. Please watch this LIVE as people of Charlottesville ask their city council why they…
Tiki Torches And The Silent Resistance
A group of 30 or so skinny anarchists, and BLM activists stood to confront hundreds of white supremacists holding torches. They were pepper sprayed and his with fuel from the torches that the “alt-right” protesters were carrying. No members of political parties were there that I could see. I heard Cornel West was in…