Statehood News (209)
DC celebrates Emancipation Day
Written by Justin Jouvenal | The Washington PostThe D.C. government and schools are closed for the holiday, and for city workers, today is an unpaid furlough day intended to help ease budget woes.
Eight ‘DC 41’ activists to stand trial Tuesday
Written by Maggie Fazeli Fard | The Washington PostEight of the “D.C. 41” — the group of activists including Mayor Vincent Gray who were arrested in April while protesting in favor of voting rights in the District — are scheduled to stand trial Tuesday.
DC statehood activists convicted
Written by Paul Duggan | The Washington PostSeven of eight D.C. statehood activists arrested in a Capitol Hill demonstration in April were convicted of misdemeanor charges Wednesday and ordered to pay fines.
New blood for the DC statehood movement
Written by Ralph Nader | The Washington PostOn Monday, staffers from 10 local and national civic groups will protest the colonial status of the District. They will engage in a limited general strike for statehood by arriving at work 15 minutes late, followed by longer work stoppages — 30, 45 and 60 minutes late on Aug. 1, Sept. 10 and Oct. 1, respectively.
- DC statehood movement
- colonial status
- limited general strike
- Capitol Hill
- White House
- Vincent Gray
- budget autonomy
- ballot measures
- voting representation
- constitutional amendment
- Julius Hobson
- Josephine Butler
- Hilda Mason
- Anise Jenkins
- Statehood Green Party
- DC Vote
- selfdetermination
- Congress
- Bush and Obama administrations
- veterans
- 51st State
- New Columbia
- Ralph Nader
- Center for Study of Responsive Law
- Unstoppable: The Emerging LeftRight Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State
Seven DC statehood activists convicted
Written by Paul Duggan | The Washington PostSeven of eight D.C. statehood activists arrested in a Capitol Hill demonstration in April were convicted of misdemeanor charges Wednesday, and a prosecutor asked a judge to order each to pay a $500 fine and perform 40 hours of community service.
On Emancipation Day in DC, two memorials tell very different stories
Written by Joe Heim | The Washington PostSeparated by about three miles and 116 years, two Washington memorials tell vastly different stories about the Civil War, African Americans and their journey to freedom.
- Emancipation Day
- Emancipation Statue
- Lincoln Park
- President Abraham Lincoln
- DC Emancipation Day
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Memorial
- African American Civil War Memorial
- African American empowerment
- Archer Alexander
- former slave
- William Greenleaf Eliot
- Thomas Ball
- Hari Jones
- African American Civil War Museum
- Ulysses S Grant
- Congress
- Frederick Douglass
- Loretta Carter Hanes
- CR Gibbs
- Anise Jenkins
- Stand Up! for Democracy
- DC Statehood
- Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in NineteenthCentury America
- Kirk Savage
- University of Pittsburgh
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Civil War to Civil Rights and Beyond
- Frank Smith
Obama on DC statehood: ‘I’m for it’
Written by Mike DeBonis | The Washington PostWith fewer than a dozen words Monday, President Barack Obama made his most definitive statement to date in favor of District statehood, delighting both loyal supporters and longtime advocates who have questioned his commitment to D.C. voting rights.
- DC Statehood
- President Barack Obama
- District statehood
- White House
- Congress
- taxation without representation
- budget rider
- funding abortions
- the S word
- voting rights
- home rule
- budget autonomy
- Harry M Reid
- Walker Jones Education Campus
- Michael D Brown
- marijuana and gun laws
- 51star flags
- “shadow” senator
- Paul Strauss
- DC Vote
- Anise Jenkins
Why is DC trying to join a group for oppressed ethnic minorities?
Written by Abigail Hauslohner | The Washington PostAdvocates for D.C. statehood have tried lobbying Congress. They’ve tried rallies, protests, T-shirts and license plates. There’s an ongoing effort to collect a million signatures for a petition.
- DC Statehood
- shadow senators
- Paul Strauss
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- UNPO
- President Obama
- New Columbia
- Paul Stronski
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- taxation without representation
- Anise Jenkins
- Stand Up! for Democracy in DC
- New Columbia Statehood Commission
- Muriel E Bowser
- Phil Mendelson
- David Grosso
- Congress
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's Press Conference
Written by Anise JenkinsJoint press conference of Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser on July 10, 2017.
- Anise Jenkins
- DC Statehood Committee of the Greater DC Chapter of the National Action Network
- press conference
- Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Mayor Muriel Bowser
- riders
- Fiscal Year 2018 Appropriations Bill
- DC Council
- gun safety
- Death With Dignity
- local funding for abortions
- budget autonomy
- wet wipes
- DC Home Rule Act
- congressional interference
- End Taxation Without Representation
- license plate
- LEAVE US ALONE
- FY2018 Appropriations Bill