Dennis Trainor Jr.

Dennis Trainor Jr. is the producer and host of Acronym TV and director of the documentaries American Autumn and Legalize Democracy.

VIDEO: Protester Arrested During ISIL Hearing In Congress

A Code Pink activist brought his message of opposition to more military intervention in the Middle East directly to members of Congress.

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By Dennis Trainor Jr.

Reports: Code Pink activist Tighe Barry was arrested and charged with disruption of Congress today during an Armed Service Committee hearing on the subject of The Administration’s Strategy and Military Campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “This is the first hearing since Obama announced that there are going to be

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VIDEO: Confronting White Privilege In The Climate Justice Movement

“For these communities, Climate Change is not a far off thing, it is right at their backyard. For these communities it is an issue of survival. Climate organizing is not a privilege for them, it is a life and death matter.”

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By Dennis Trainor Jr.
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Speaking at the opening plenary of the New York City Global Climate Convergence in the days before the People’s Climate March, Nastaran Mohit told the assembled crowd that the revolution “and this (Climate Convergence) movement is not going to be spawned from the activist white community. It is going to be led front and center by marginalized and

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Save The Climate Or Save Capitalism? A Flood Wall Street Dispatch

Flood Wall Street exceeded organizers expectations, with over 3000 people shutting down Broadway between Exchange place and the iconic Wall Street Bull for eight hours just one day ahead of the 2014 UN Climate meeting.

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By Dennis Trainor Jr.
Occupy Wall Street Climate Summit

On Monday, moments before about 3,000 Flood Wall Street protesters stepped off from Battery Park at the Southern tip of Manhattan for what was sure to be a more raucous and less predictable affair that the overwhelming positive People’s Climate March on Sunday, I asked Adam Clayton-Muller of Idle No More what was essential for society to

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