protest fun

if there's anything that dc-ites love to do, it's protest. here is a nice picket line that's going on one block from my house.




i talked to one of the union organizers at this protest, and above the chants ("who's the rat? BOOOOOOOOO. who's the rat? BOOOOOOOOOOO!") he said they were protesting low wages, shady practices, scab workers, the whole anti-union bag of tricks.
these carpenters work for form construction (obv), who have been contracted by the building's property manager (don't know) who is renting the space out to, get this, the associated press. now i haven't been able to confirm this with a cursory google search, but if it's true, then that's ridiculous. since when were unions and the crazy liberal media on opposite sides?
but to be completely self-centered, it's kind of cool that the associated press is going to have offices one block from my apt.