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Anti-Trump protesters lay ‘body bags’ outside one of his New Jersey golf clubs

Date:
Apr 4 2020

Social distancing guidelines didn’t stop members of Refuse Fascism Philly from criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday. Rather than march as a crowd through Center City, a handful of protesters from the group, which has…

A small group forces PNC to stop financing mountaintop removal

Practitioner:
Earth Quaker Action Team

Date:
Apr 4 2020

This wonderful campaign of Earth Action Network against mountaintop removal coal mining focused not on the invulnerable mining companies, but on the banks that financed them – and especially PNC, which based its growth model on recruiting university students. It…

Washing the Flag

Practitioner:
People

Date:
Apr 4 2020

“It might not seem that an act of public laundry could unsettle a president with a well-deserved reputation for inflexibility, corruption, and brutality. But mass washing ceremonies were a key element in getting rid of Peru’s unpopular president, Alberto Fujimori,…

Occupy Our Homes Forecloses on Wells Fargo

Practitioner:
Occupy Our Homes

Date:
Apr 4 2020

On the eve of Wells Fargo’s annual shareholders meeting in San Antonio, TX on Tuesday, home defenders, students, community groups, and activists in ten cities took peaceful action against the bank. Petitions signed by thousands of people were delivered to…

Gandhi’s Salt March to the Sea

Practitioner:
Mahatma Gandhi

Date:
Apr 4 2020

In 1930, the Indian National Congress adopted satyagraha (essentially, nonviolent protest) as their main tactic in their campaign for independence. Mahatma Gandhi was appointed to develop a plan of action; he proposed marching to the sea to make salt in…

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Practitioner:
Claudette Colvin, NAACP, Rosa Parks

Date:
Apr 4 2020

In 1900, Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race, and conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites,…

“You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE” world record

Practitioner:
Leonidas Martin

Date:
Apr 4 2020

On October 6th, 2007, we beat a new world record. Thousands of people in cities all across Spain simultaneously shouted: “You won’t own a house IN YOUR WHOLE FUCKING LIFE!” The decibels radiating from this collective cry were registered by…

Climate activists painted murals on two blocks of San Francisco streets

Practitioner:
Idle No More and Bay Area climate movement organizations, Sunrise Movement

Date:
Apr 4 2020

Climate activists took to the streets in San Francisco and painted murals directly on two blocks of the city Financial District’s main thoroughfare. The murals on Montgomery Street were painted as part of the Strike for Climate Justice protest that…

#NoFutureNoChildren

Practitioner:
Emma Lim

Date:
Apr 4 2020

As leaders across the world are getting ready to gather together to discuss climate change—and what to do about it—at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York next week, hundreds of young people across the world are going on…

NYU Students’ Response to COVID-19 Housing Closure

Practitioner:
NYU Student Body/NYU’s Inter-Residential Hall Council

Date:
Apr 4 2020

This was a protest posted on Change.org in response to NYU’s forced eviction deadline on students living in on-campus housing. The following was the information posted on the site: We, the undergraduate student body of New York University, strongly urge…