On August 11, 2026, after an entire year of occupation, Free DC and community partners rallied to continue to demand #EndTheDCoccupation, #NationalGuardOutNow, #FreeDC.

More than 200 organizations, congregations, and elected leaders sign an open letter opposing DC’s occupation, urging the federal government to dismantle the "DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force" affirming our first amendment rights, and committing to publicly oppose any effort to prevent the seating of duly elected officials.

We celebrate Malcolm X Park’s long proud history — and future — as a space for solidarity and justice.

DC's school communities deserve better than police harassment, family separation, and armed occupation.

DC workers deserve better than mass firings, union busting, occupation, and employers who side with the regime.

Trump’s “DC’s Safe and Beautiful Task Force” has now arrested more than 13,000 people — many of which have relied on illegal searches, lies, and violation of rights.

We remember Nolberto Meza, killed by U.S. Park Police in June. Nolberto's family shared their anguish in laying him to rest. Faith leaders and artists helped us acknowledge and move through collective grief.

Today is the first of 11 days that DC residents will share our stories of what one year of occupation has looked like for us, and all the ways we have come together against it. Today we will tell the story of Julian Bailey.

Thousands of people participated in collective non-cooperation on May Day. In the face of this regime’s agenda of destruction and death, we took action to demand ICE out of DC and an end to the DC occupation. 

On March 28, tens of thousands of people turned out for No Kings DC to show that the United States belongs to the people, not greedy billionaires or those who rule through fear.

On January 28, Free DC held a press conference at St. Marks and made office visits to Senate offices to urge them to stop funding the Department of Homeland Security’s campaign of terror.

On October 18, almost 7 million people across the U.S. rallied against Trump’s regime of cruelty and harm. More than a hundred thousand joined the movement in DC, and the Free DC community was a proud part of it.

On September 30, leaders from Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, Memphis, and Portland held a joint virtual news conference to call for an end to the dangerous, unnecessary, and illegal military occupation in their cities.

WASHINGTON DC — This afternoon Donald Trump issued an Executive Order promoting the death penalty in DC.

In response, Free DC issued the following statement:

On September 26, Free DC and community leaders from TN, MS, LA, OH, and WV demanded troop withdrawal as the Trump Administration and Republican governors continue to extend unnecessary, wasteful National Guard deployment in the nation's capital.

One important thing we can do in this moment is to make our demand for a free DC visible everywhere.

Every night at 7 PM, we call on all DC residents to stop what you are doing, go outside, and bang pots and pans for five minutes. We call on everyone to do this every night for as long as the National Guard, ICE, federal forces and this occupation are in place.