Activists gathered at the White House yesterday alongside more than 1,500 Tibetan refugees to protest the Chinese government's crackdown on Tibetan demonstrators, according to the Washington Post. Buddhist monks were joined by a few American sympathizers in their efforts to persuade President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. Tibetan sympathizers have a powerful ally in U.S. House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who yesterday urged President Bush to consider a......

Transit is inherently tied to politics, and as such, involves quite a bit of perspective. Bearing that in mind, here's a question for those readers out there that drive to work everyday: how would you like having tolls escalate with the amount of traffic density in order to fund those same roads that you currently sit idly on? Well, if the Department of Transportation and the Bush Administration have their way, you might be looking......

Actually, last year Washingtonians were saved some driving chaos because the protest on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion was held on a Saturday. Not this year, as protesters from every possible anti-war faction will be gathering in D.C. tomorrow Wednesday on actual date of the invasion, March 19. Organized under United for Peace and Justice, we count at least ten different events planned around the city. We'll be greeted with folks blocking the IRS......

Boing Boing picked up on a small but adorable protest held in Washington last week that we missed. A Greenpeace activist, dressed in a polar bear suit, was arrested on Jan. 31 after protesting in a paddleboat in a park pond in front of the Department of Interior. Greenpeace set up the boat and costume to protest the Bush Administration’s delay in issuing a final Endangered Species Act listing for the polar bear due......