Several hundred protesters descended on the gates of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel earlier this afternoon to voice their displeasure with the Conservative Political Action Conference going on inside. more ›

In April 2011, Antonio Davis was arrested during a protest on Capitol Hill. Almost a year later, he faces trial because the doctor-recommended marijuana he uses to mitigate the pain from AIDS registered on a court-mandated drug test. more ›

Yesterday afternoon some 60 protesters gathered in a newly barren McPherson Square to discuss how a movement that so closely linked its message to its tactics could transition in a post-camping world. No longer was a presence enough to remind the one percent that the 99 percent was watching; from this point on, Occupy D.C. has to make its point without actually occupying. more ›

As they do every year, tens of thousands of pro-lifers will gather on the National Mall today for the March for Life, where they will again demand further restrictions on abortions throughout the country. more ›

After marching around Congress earlier this week, the Occupy movement was back on Capitol Hill today, this time to press their case against the Supreme Court. Twelve protesters have been arrested. more ›

One Ward 4 D.C. Council candidate and a few local websites joined in a day-long protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act by blacking out his campaign website for the day. more ›

After a day of protesting on the U.S. Capitol's front lawn, members of Occupy Congress marched from the Hill to the Supreme Court to the White House. Only four arrests were reported. more ›

Occupy Congress has brought a few hundred members of the income-inequality movement to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol today, and there are nearly as many messages as there are protesters. more ›

A group of about two dozen members of Occupy D.C. walked from McPherson Square to 1301 K Street NW earlier this afternoon to stage a protest in the lobby of PricewaterhouseCoopers' office there. more ›

In the closing months of 2011, Occupy D.C. made a lot of noise, but whether they've made an impact is still to be determined. more ›

Via WJLA, the AP reports that of the four protesters that were engaged in a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights, only one remains. more ›

Four D.C. voting rights protestors, including the organizer of a week-old hunger strike, were arrested on Capitol Hill during a rally against anti-abortion language in a federal budget resolution. more ›

A group of four protestors associated with the Occupy D.C. movement took their prolonged hunger strike to Capitol Hill today in hopes of getting a rider preventing the use of local funds from paying for abortions removed from a federal budget bill. more ›

It's yet another eviction for the Occupy Wall Street movement, as police in Baltimore removed 40 people that had been camped out near the Inner Harbor for the last 10 weeks. According to the Baltimore Sun, the eviction went smoothly and no arrests were reported. more ›

The tenuous truce between the establishment and the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square seems to be fraying. more ›

The three protesters that launched a hunger strike yesterday for D.C. voting right and self-determination are planning on trying to meet with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, in hopes of having him introduce a clean bill granting the District budgetary autonomy. more ›

The last time that the District saw a substantial victory in its fight for voting rights, self-determination and statehood was 1973, when the city was given limited Home Rule. Three protesters are hoping that the next big victory comes much more quickly -- because they'll be fasting until the District gets it. more ›

You love 'em, you hate 'em -- but they're still camped out downtown, and yes, they still produce news. Here's a quick roundup of some Occupy-related news from the last two days. more ›

Occupying the Franklin School may have been easy, but figuring out what to do with it in the long run isn't. more ›

What have all the additional police, sanitation and traffic enforcement officers used in connection with Occupy DC cost the District? Almost $1 million, so far. more ›

Eleven people were arrested on Saturday evening after having occupied the Franklin School, a historic building on the corner of 13th and K Streets NW that served as a homeless shelter but was shut down in 2008. more ›

This afternoon the Franklin School located at 13th and K Streets NW was occupied by a group of protesters affiliated with Occupy DC. The school, which was built in 1869 and served as a homeless shelter until it was closed in 2008, is unoccupied as the city debates what to do with it. more ›

Carefully escorted by police through downtown D.C. and into Georgetown, 200-plus Occupy D.C. protesters made it to the Key Bridge without issue this afternoon. Though traffic was stopped along the route and on the Key Bridge as the marchers approached, it resumed once protesters made it on to the bridge's sidewalk. more ›

UPDATE (12:10 p.m.): Via Twitter, Occupy DC's media team states that their march will not conflict with the afternoon rush, despite it being scheduled to last until 6 p.m. Meanwhile, a group called Our DC which is participating in a demonstration on the bridge itself says that protesters will be "staying on the pedestrian sidewalk" and that there will be "No blocking traffic!" more ›

Despite avoiding the fate of many of their counterparts across the country, Occupy D.C. protesters expressed solidarity with their evicted brethren last night with a raucous march through downtown D.C. which included a brief storming of a private building. more ›

"It's a beautiful day!" reads the latest communique from that bunch of fringe extremists down at Occupy DC, who, in the same terrifying message, note that they'll be holding a public barbecue at 2:30 in McPherson Square. more ›

Yesterday, in response to a march on and sit-in at her department's headquarters, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier said that the Occupy DC protests had gotten "increasingly confrontational and violent." This morning, the Occupy DC media team has struck back. more ›

On Wednesday evening, Occupy D.C. protesters marched down to the Wilson Building, where they replaced a D.C. flag with an Occupy banner. Now they've apologized. more ›