On the 9th of September, Code Pink penetrated all the security around Donald Trump and got in his face, disrupting a dinner he was holding with other rich and powerful Fascists. Chant was “Free DC! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time”
WAY TO GO CODE PINK! Drive this right home to Der Fuhrer!
(from DC Media Group)
Editors note: Lex King was present on the night President Trump ordered the takedown of the William Thomas Memorial Peace Vigil. They gave this first person account of activists’ actions which kept the U.S. Park Police from removing the Peace Vigil entirely. As of Tuesday night, the Peace Vigil was continuing operations and being staffed by multiple activists but without its main tent structure.
“If this tent goes, watch yourself and your families next,” activist Rio Phillips warned a growing crowd on Friday, September 5th. Night had already fallen over the city when he’d received word that the William Thomas Memorial Peace Vigil could be taken down at any moment. Phillips and a group of supporters flocked to Lafayette Square to defend the longest running protest in American history.
The Peace Vigil began in 1981, running 24/7. Vigil keepers used a blue tent to take shelter from the elements and store materials. According to permitting laws in Washington D.C., the tent did not require a permit as long as someone was actively attending to it, meaning the tent couldn’t be left alone for any period of time. That’s why protestors were immediately alarmed when they got the call that the vigil’s attendant had been removed from the tent.
When they arrived at Lafayette Square, police tape blocked the entrance to the park with multiple Park Police officers guarding it. Protestors were stuck on the sidewalk, trying to spot the tent in the dark. Police assured the group they’d closed the square down for a congressional picnic, not to take down the tent, but it did little to quell the group’s fear.
Earlier that day, Trump found out about the Vigil on live television after a right-wing personality levied slanderous accusations that the tent was hiding weapons. Trump responded, “Take it down. Take it down today, right now.”
Full report on DC Media Group: https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/09/09/dc-activists-defended-peace-vigil-before-us-park-police-took-it-down/
Earlier report with more on the raid: https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/09/08/peace-vigil-future-unclear-as-trump-regime-takes-down-and-removes-tent/
From DC Media Group:
Washington DC—Tens of thousands of DC citizens rallied and marched Saturday demanding the immediate end to occupation forces and an end to police harassment and illegal arrests in communities throughout the city. The We Are All DC action was in response to the regime’s deployment of 1000s of federal police and over 2000 Army National Guard Soldiers from Southern States, including Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Citizens denounced roundups of immigrants, traffic stop traps, and the arrests some U.S. citizens.
The march began at Malcom X Park and ended about a mile away at Freedom Plaza, where organizers told of the adverse affects the occupation had on their communities, police stops to check drivers, usually without probable cause, and ICE roundups of immigrants and green card holders awaiting their final approval as citizens. Businesses were being hampered or closed because customers were not coming to the city and workers were afraid to go to work.
On the 2nd of September, Tampa/USF SDS held a protest just outside University of South Florida demanding that ICE leave not only the campus but all of Florida. A further demand was that Trump must leave office.
Tampa SDS now operates off-campus, out of range of the jurisdication of USF’s brutal campus cops and dishonest “disciplinary” structure.
On Labor Day the first of September, activists in Tampa held one of the “workers over billionaires” 50501 protests that took place from coast to coast on that day. These protests called attention to Trump’s connections to billionaires and the “Donor Class” and partially to the origins of Labor Day.
Labor Day was originally a celebration of union power, source of among other things the weekend and the (now less and less common) 8 hour workday. The original day for this was Mayday, but the US ruling class so feared Mayday’s revolutionary connotations they created a separate holiday diverting attention off revolutionary elements.
Feeling triggered, Ron DeSantis? A well chalked sidewalk in St Petersburg, FL
Palestinian flag and Eat the Rich
On the 30th of August, while the FL State Highway Patrol was busy watching pulse, sidewalk art crews struck in St Pete instead. Nobody was able to interfere. The previous night someone was arrested for allegedly walking on the disputed crosswalk wirh chalked shoes, but the judge threw out the case:
https://www.wesh.com/article/protester-arrested-chalking-pulse-crosswalk-released-no-bond/65939651
The sidewalk was well chalked at Pulse too the night before, but a parking lot across from Pulse had police cruisers (presumed FHP) lined up doorhandle to doorhandle.
By comparison we had zero opposition in St Pete. From Sun Tzu’s the Art of War: fight the enemy where he isn’t.
Critical Mass Bike ride for August in Orlando Rumors of the ride’s demise proved unfounded
On the 27th of August, Florida’s racist, fascist, homophobic governor Ron DeSantis staged a short-notice press conference inside a government building in Orlando. Protesters outside were furious with his 207(g) programs, his concentration camp building, and his witch-hunt against the LGBTQ community. The recent uproar over rainbow sidewalks at Pulse and elsewhere has cast the governor’s Christian Nationalist hate for the GLBTQ community into stark relief.
Some of the protesters blew horns to ensure the protest could not be hidden fronm reporters inside. Cops responded with threats of arrest, at which point protesters began chanting louder than the horns. DeSantis knew better than to attempt an outdoor protest in Orlando, a city that despises him and everything he stands for! In the end, he had to come out sometime. Protesters staked out all possible exits. When he pulled out in his black SUV, protesters managed to approach, one yelling “Ron DeSantis you fascist piece of shit!”
On the 25th of August, a military veteran responded to Trump’s unlawful executive order concerning flag burning by burning a US flag himself right in front of the White House. Yes he was arrested, and no this arrest is not legal given the 1989 Supreme Court ruling that legalized flag burning.
Big fat middle finger to Trump from someone not afraid to fight for the Constitution and remember their oath. I believe “all enemies foreign and domestic” comes to mind here concerning Trump.
When this video was made it was reported as a detainment but later reports indicate he was actually arrested. This is going to burn a LOT of flags, and for a veteran to take the lead and do it first weakens a lot of what Chump is going to say about it.
On the 23ed of August, protesters arrived at the former Baker Correctional Institution. This former prison was closed for human rights violations, now DeSantis wants to reopen it as a concentration camp for ICE.
The protest was small but took place as drenching rain faded to sprinking rain, at a site roughly 2/3’eds of the way from Jacksonville, FL to lke City, FL on US 90. As the protest ended there was an ugly incident of unknown intent. As protesters were loading up their cars, a truck presumably associated with the prison project drove into the driveway to the field the cars were in and blocked it. The truck was between the two police cruisers on either side of the driveway and conversation between them could be heard. As soon as someone got a camera up aimed at this, they wrapped up their conversation and in minutes the truck was gone and the exit route was open. Unknown if that was random chance with that truck having business there anyway, a deliberate “fake kettle” psy-op, or something else.
All of this as DeSantis says he is “undeterred” by the Federal court order to shut down Alligator Auschwitz in the Everglades within 60 days.
