Beltway Area Indymedia

n Wed Nove 28, paid Smithfield spokesperson and cookbook author Paula Dan showed up at Books-a-Million in Dupont Circle for fans to sign her latest book. She was greeted by protesters from UFCW and the Justice at Smithfield campaign.
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Several people slipped inside with copies of the book(required for admission to the line) and when they got to the front confronted Paula Dean over her refusal to meet with any Smithfield workers except a few that management sent to her.

Earlier this week, members of Resistance and Solidarity conducted a preliminary reconnaissance trip to the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport in preparation for the demonstrations against the American Renaissance Conference.

February 22-24, the American Renaissance Magazine will hold their biannual white supremacist conference in Herndon, VA.

Confront Racist Terrorist Gathering near Dulles Airport!

In 2008, neo-nazis and racist bigots will be planning more racist terror at the American Renaissance Conference. On Feb 22-24, prominent white supremacists from the US and across the world will gather at the Crowne Plaza Dulles Airport Hotel to vent their hatred and spew their racist venom towards communities of color.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Coal River Mountain Watch, the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) and students from around the country shut down a Washington, D.C. Citi branch today by performing a theatrical “die-in” and delivering a bundle of coal to the financial giant. The protesters, in Washington for this week’s major youth climate conference Power Shift, called on Citi to stop funding the leading cause of global warming in the United States: coal.

http://understory.ran.org/2007/11/05/climate-youth-movement-convergences...

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The notorious Inter-County Connector highway project is now in court, with oral arguments in the first lawsuit being heard Oct 1 and the second lawsuit Oct 29. The judge's decison could mean construction in November-or with appeals could mean three years of delays that could kill the highway good and dead!

The first lawsuit was filed by the Sierra Club, the Audobon Society, Friends of the Earth, and a couple who will lose their home if the highway goes through. It states that NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, was violated by an inadequate Environmental Impact Statement.

During a press conference on the steps of the Wilson building this week, Bill Harrod, a former manager with Check N' Go stated that he was sent out to black neighborhoods to market to minorities and sent to a black church to solicit the testimony (and payoff) of a minister. I have been able to verify that Mr. Harrod worked at the Check N Go office at 3182 Bladensburg Rd NE. This is the same office that had been protested several times before and the same one where the manager was attacked because of his seedy business practices.

On Sep 2, over 10,000 immigrants and supporter rallied and marched in Prince William County, VA to oppose the fascistic restrictions the county is attempting to impose on immigrants.

With so many participants, the original march plan on the Prince William Parkway bike path had to be revised. Marchers streamed out for at least half a mile, and as it was impossible to double the march back, everyone had to turn around in place to double back!

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On August 29th, the campaign against DC's payday lending loan sharks visited the Check 'n Go outlet on 4011 S Capitol st in Anacostia. THis is a place where a loan of $400 can cost a borrower over $2,200 to pay back, at an interest rate of 550%!

As people gathered outside with signs protraying sharks and yelling through bullhorns, Check 'n Go emptied out. People were asked to call Marion Barry, the City Councilmember for Ward 8, asking him to vote for bill 17-132, the Payday Loan Consumer Protection Act of 2007.

Last Thursday, Aug 23, Immigration agents sunk to a new low in fascism and brutality. While ICE was being protested at their headquarters, they sent agents to a SOCCER GAME at 11th and Irving sts for yet another roundup! ALL persons looking Latino were detained and ordered to show ID, whites allowed to leave.

Although their is NO LEGAL OBLIGATION to show ID in this kind of circumstance, ICE ignored the law, blocked all exists from the soccer fields, let all non-Latino people leave-and demanded ID from all people they judged to be Latino.