Speaking of rallies, the anti-ricin bar crawl on Capitol Hill also counts as a weekend protest. Drinking at the Crescent certainly sounds more fun than marching downtown, too. Where are all the photos, we want to know?! This Flickr stream, via CHS, is all we could find in terms of hard evidence that everything went down as planned. Did you attend? Better yet, did anyone make it through all eleven bars? more ›

Perhaps it's a resurgence of energy after the post-holiday blues that galvanized city activists to gather in solidarity against world problems this weekend. There were two rallies we know of: yesterday's 1,500-strong pro-Israel rally at Temple De Hirsch Sinai on Capitol Hill, and a gay rights protest march from Capitol Hill to Westlake Center on Saturday. The pro-Israel rally was the larger and better-organized of the two; as Dominic Holden over at Slog notes, the anti-DOMA march was poorly attended and organized by a small, inexperienced group without the help of Equal Rights Washington. (Our apologies if the headline makes it seem like the anti-DOMA and pro-Israel camps had anything to do with each other, because they sure didn't.) more ›