#inauguration protests

Journalists Covering Inaugural Protests Face More Time In Prison Than Murderers (Video)

In a couple of weeks, nine people will be charged for their alleged involvement in the “J20″–January 20–incidents on inauguration day in which protesters smashed windows, fired off projectiles, and set cars on fire.

But those six defendants did not participate in the destruction.

They were merely journalists who just happened to be in the right place at the wrong time.

If convicted,…

Around 10 AM, protesters refused to let Trump supporters through the Red Gate. 

David Turnbull, a spokesman for the coalition of protesters, said that the blockade has been in place for over an hour. 

He said some Trump supporters got aggressive and tried to force their way through the demonstrators, but that "it hasn't been too bad." 

Donald Trump began his first full week as US president firmly on the defensive, after millions of Americans took to the streets to protest against his election and the White House came under fire for brazenly lying to the public.

Rattled by the nation’s biggest political demonstrations since the Vietnam war, Trump and his aides spent an extraordinary first weekend in office falsely claiming that record numbers of people had attended his swearing-in on Friday.

Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, used his first White House briefing to shout at journalists about what he incorrectly termed “deliberately false reporting” on Trump’s inauguration, declaring: “We’re going to hold the press accountable.”

Disrupt J20 Criminal Plots Against Inauguration Revealed

James O’Keefe and Project Veritas released a video on Monday that showed members of the Disrupt J20 group planning criminal actions to shut down the Inaugural Balls this week. The ball involved in this Part I video is the “Deploraball,” a grassroots event to be held in the National Press Club in Washington DC at 8 p.m. on January 19th. The event is already completely sold out, and security has…

Anti-Trump organizers are buried under a flood of death threats — but aren’t backing down

Multiple organizers told Mic on Wednesday that threats are quickly becoming a rite of passage for those organizing protests against the inauguration of Donald Trump as president. 

Various organizers putting together peaceful demonstrators are under a deluge of hateful messages and threats of violence.