Katie Benner

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Katie Benner

Organizers see a traditional day for labor marches as an opportunity to show growing opposition to the Trump administration's agenda. Protesters are expected to gather in more than 1,000 cities and towns across the country on Thursday to oppose President Trump's plans to cut education funding, rollback workers' rights and carry out mass deportations.

1 month ago | telegraphindia.com | Shaila Dewan |Minho Kim |Katie Benner

They came out in defence of national parks and small businesses, public education and health care for veterans, abortion rights and fair elections. They marched against tariffs and oligarchs, dark money and fascism, the deportation of legal immigrants and the department of government efficiency. Demonstrators had no shortage of causes as they gathered in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest President Trump’s agenda.

1 month ago | mahoningmatters.com | Katie Benner

WASHINGTON Opponents of President Donald Trump held protests around the country Saturday to oppose the president’s slash-and-burn attack on federal health care programs, government workers and the rule of law, a message that they say appeals to a politically diverse set of Americans. The “Hands Off!” mass action was organized by Indivisible, MoveOn and several other groups that led protests about abortion rights, gun violence and racial justice during the first Trump administration.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Katie Benner

"The protests were effective in the short term, but in the longer term, unless there is some kind of resounding defeat politically, movements like Trump's are able to reconstitute and, in this case, win," said Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist who studies social movements and nonviolent resistance. Saturday's protests will surely include signs and speeches about reproductive rights, trans rights and racial justice.

2 months ago | businessandamerica.com | Katie Benner |Jacey Fortin

As Senate Democrats debate the House bill passed on Tuesday that would fund the government through Sept. 30, one flashpoint will be the legislation’s impact on Washington, D.C. While the measure slightly decreases federal spending overall, it forces a crippling cut of more than $1 billion from the remaining six months of the District of Columbia’s budget.